Fair Thee Well
• December 14, 2017 • Leave a CommentPosted in 3rd Afghan War, Afghanistan, airplanes, Art Basel, Balochistan, Baron Raimund von Stillfried, British Army, collectors, colonial propaganda, colonialism, displays, donations, Egypt, Far East, Felice Beato, Francis Xavier Luca, Frederic A. Sharf, gifts, Great Britain, Great Britain. Army. Kent Regiment., Japan, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, Kusakabe Kimbei, library donors, Northwest Frontier, Pakistan, Pashtuns, Photograph albums, photography, POWs, rare books and special collections library, Rochelle T. Pienn, Royal Airforce, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, War Photography, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, women
Tags: Afghanistan, Art Basel, Balochistan, Baron Raimund von Stillfried, biplanes, British Empire, Egypt, Egyptians, Far East, Felice Beato, Frederic A. Sharf, Great Britain, hand-watercolored photographs, India, Indian Cavalry (Lancers), indigenous peoples, Japan, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, Kent Regiment (British Army), Kusakabe Kimbei, leather bindings, Lieutenant J. D. Harding, Northwest Frontier, Pakistan, Pashtuns, photograph albums, Photography, Royal Air Force (Great Britain), women, Yokohama (Japan)
From the United States, to the Philippines, to Tokyo, to Cuba: BAA & NEH Scholars Visit The Wolfsonian–FIU
• June 18, 2016 • 1 CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, African American History, Alabama, American left artists, architecture, Artists, colonial propaganda, colonialism, Communist Party of the United States, Communist Party of the United States of America, Communists, curator, displays, exhibitions, Far East, FIU, FIU community, Florida International University, Francis Xavier Luca, Frederic A. Sharf, graphic arts, Japan, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, leftist artists, library donors, museums, Philippine American War, Philippine-American War (1899-1902), Philippines, Photograph albums, racism, rare books and special collections library, Rochelle T. Pienn, War Photography, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: African-Americans, Al Jolson, Anti-communism, Art Deco, Bavarian American Academy, Bayerische Amerika-Akademie, block print books, death penalty, Dr. Amy Bliss Marshall, Dr. Hitomi Yoshio, Dr. Steven Heine, electric chair, Felix Lewis, Francis Xavier Luca, Hap Hadley, Japan, Josephine Baker, Koizumi Kishio (1893-1945), Lidu Yi, lino-cut books, Mac Harshberger (1900-1975), National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), Nicolae Harsanyi, Philippines, Promising Paradise: Cuban Allure--American Seduction (exhibition), Quit Cryin' the Blues, racism, Remembering Tokyo (exhibit), Rochelle Pienn, Scottsboro Boys, Scottsboro Trial (Alabama), stereotypes, summer institutes, summer programs, Tokyo: High City and Low City, United States
SOMEWHERE I’LL FIND YOU, OR, PUBLISHERS’ DECORATIVE BINDINGS ON THE PHILIPPINES FROM THE WOLFSONIAN-FIU LIBRARY
• June 22, 2015 • Leave a CommentPosted in colonialism, donations, Frederic A. Sharf, gifts, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, library donors, Manila (Philippines), Philippine-American War (1899-1902), Philippines, publishers' decorative bindings, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: Carole Lombard, China, China Seas, Clark Gable, Filipinos, Japan, Margherita Arlina Hamm, Philippine Insurrection, Rochelle Pienn, Second World War, Somewhere I'll Find You (film), Spanish- American War of 1898, Spotwood's Expedition, U.S. Army
A NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM, OR, A STUDENT RECEPTION WITH WOLFSONIAN-FIU RARE BOOK LIBRARIANS
• April 8, 2015 • 1 CommentPosted in Ben Stiller, New York Museum of Natural History, Night at the Museum
Tags: Antonio Pettini, Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), Boxer Rebellion, C. A. Lion Cachet, China, Dr. Annette Fromm, Dr. Francis Xavier Luca, Dr. Nicolae Harsanyi, Fannie Caldwell, Fascism, FIU Museum Studies, Germany, Indonesia, Jacob Maris, Japan, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, Kawi, Milan Trenc, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905), Second Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902), Sergeant Edwin Taylor, Sharf Associate Librarian Rochelle Pienn, South African War (1899-1902), Wakana Utigawa, Wolfsonian-FIU library
FROM THE BOROUGH TO THE BEACH, OR, THE LIFE OF LINDA THE INTERN AT THE WOLFSONIAN-FIU LIBRARY
• January 27, 2015 • Leave a CommentPosted in archives, cataloging, colonial tourism, Frederic A. Sharf, interns, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, Photograph albums, Rochelle T. Pienn, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library
Tags: 1st Battalion East Surrey Regiment of Great Britain, Albumen photographs, China, Frederic Houlton Summers, Gillander & Co. (mercantile), H. W. Benson, India, James Harrison Wilson, Japan, Linda Hernandez, Lions, New York Public Library, Opium, Prostitutes, Queens (New York), Shanghai (China), Sharf Associate Librarian Rochelle Pienn, Sotheby's, Temple of the 500 Genii, University of South Florida, women
Don’t Take My Kodachrome Away, or, What I Did on My Summer Leave from The Wolfsonian-FIU Library
• June 21, 2014 • 1 CommentPosted in collectors, colonial propaganda, colonialism, donations, Frederic A. Sharf, gifts, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, library donors, Photograph albums, photography, Rare Book School, rare books and special collections library, Rochelle T. Pienn, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: A. J. Lavie, albumen prints, Alderman library, ambrotypes, Atelier Boba, carbon prints, collodion prints, cyanotypes, daguerreotypes, darkrooms, Frederic Houlton Summers, gelatin prints, H. W. Benson, Image Permanence Institute (IPI), India, James M. Reilly, Japan, kallitypes, Kodachrome, Panama, photograph albums, photographs, Photography, platinotypes, Polaroid, Professional development, Rare Book School (Charlottesville VA), Ryan Boatright, Sharf Associate Librarian Rochelle Pienn, Thomas Jefferson, tintypes, Tosco Peppe, University of Virginia
The Manchurian Candidate: Views of the Russo-Japanese War from the Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection at The Wolfsonian – FIU Library
• December 17, 2013 • Leave a CommentPosted in colonialism, donations, Far East, Frederic A. Sharf, gifts, Japan, Japanese Empire, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, library donors, Manchuria, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., rare books and special collections library, Rochelle T. Pienn, Russia, Russo-Japanese War, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, trains, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: Battle of Port Arthur, Cavalry, China, Chinese Eastern Railway, Chinese-Japanese tensions, Cyber hacking, Cyberattacks, Dalian, David Almeida, Digital Resources Photographer, Hackers, Home front efforts, Japan, Japanese bliss deities, Military, Mothers, Panama Canal, Parsnips, Roses, Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905), Sino-Japanese War, Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895), Tamemoto Kuroki (1844-1923), The Voice of Russia, virtual library displays
ART BASEL AND OCEAN LINER AFICIONADO TOURS OF THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY AND A GLIMPSE INTO THE FUTURE
• December 13, 2013 • 1 CommentPosted in book art, collectors, colonial propaganda, colonialism, Communism, Communists, Constructivism, cruise ships, displays, donations, Dr. Laurence Miller, Dutch Art Nouveau, Ethiopia, Far East, Fascism, Futurism, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, Great Britain, Hamburg-American Line, international expositions, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, John Heartfield (1891-1968), Laurence Miller Collection, leftist artists, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, Nazi propaganda, Nazism, Nieuwe Kunst, ocean liners, oceanliners, passenger ships, persuasive arts, Photograph albums, photography, pochoirs, political art, postcards, posters, promotional materials, propaganda, propaganda arts, propaganda posters, rare books and special collections library, Russia, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, totalitarian, VIP vistors, war propaganda, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War I, World's fairs, WWI
Tags: Anti-Communist Propaganda, anti-Fascist propaganda, anti-Nazi propaganda, Arbeiter-Illustrierte Zeitung (periodical), Art Basel, Art Nouveau, Asama Maru (steamship), Battleship Potemkin (film : 1925), Blaise Cendrars (1887-1961), calendars, Chatsworth House, Chemical warfare, Christopher Kyte, cruise line industry, Crystal Palace Exhibition (1851 : London), Cunard, Dan Lotten, designers, Duilio (steamship), Empire Welland (troopship), family photographs, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (1876-1944), First World War, Fortunato Depero (1892-1960), Gas masks, George G. Sharp, German design reform, Giulio Cesare (steamship), graphic art, Grim Reaper, Hamburg-Amerika Linie, Hibiya Shrine (Japan), Hyde Park (London), Illumination, Italian Futurism, Japan, Jeff Maklin, Jim Lida, John Heartfield (1891-1968), La Prose du Transsibérien et de La Petite Jehanne de France, library visitors, Maritime artists, Museum buildings, Naval architects, Nieuwe Kunst, Normandie (Steamship), NYK Line, ocean liner aficionados, ocean liners, Odessa Steps, Owen Jones (1809-1874), Patria (3) (steamship), photograph albums, Photomontage, postage stamps, postcards, promised gifts, propaganda, Raoul Cenisi (1912-1991), robots, Rossia (steamship), Russian Constructivism, S.S. Nieuw Amsterdam (steamship), Saturnia, Saturnia (steamship), Sergei Eisenstein (1898-1948), Sharf Associate Librarian Rochelle Pienn, shoes, Sir Joseph Paxton (1803-1865), Skeletons, Sonia Delaunay (1885-1979), Stanley Haviland, Stephen Card, Theatre costume design, Theodoor Willem Nieuwenhuis (1866-1951), Thomas Cassidy, Tullio Crali (1910-2000), Victorian England, vultures, watercolors, Weddings, WWI
APROPOS OF THE WET SNOW: SIBERIA IN SMALL SNAPSHOTS FROM THE JEAN S. AND FREDERIC A. SHARF COLLECTION AT THE WOLFSONIAN-FIU LIBRARY
• June 28, 2013 • Leave a CommentPosted in donations, gifts, Japan, Japanese Empire, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, library donors, Photograph albums, photography, Russia, Soviet Union, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, women
Tags: Allied intervention (1918-1920), Allies (W.W.I.), Bolsheviks, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Harbin (China), Icebreakers (Ships), Japan, Japanese Imperial Navy, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, Leo Tolstoy, Nisshin (Cruiser), photograph albums, Rochelle T. Pienn, Russian Civil War (1917-1922), Siberia (Russia), Skating, Vladivostok (Russia), White Army, Wolfsonian-FIU library
GLIMPSES OF THE EAST: LARGE GIFT OF RARE WORKS ABOUT THE FAR EAST ARRIVE AT THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY
• August 3, 2012 • 1 CommentPosted in accessioning, acquisitions, bindings, cruise ships, donations, Far East, Frederic A. Sharf, gifts, Japan, Japanese Empire, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, library donors, ocean liners, Russo-Japanese War, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: China, Christopher Columbus, Commodore Matthew C. Perry, diaries, East Indies, Edward Greey, Japan, Japanese fairy tales, Korea, medical missionaries, Nippon Ysen Kaisha (N.Y.K. Line), photograph albums, travel literature, Treaty of Kanagawa
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