A Transatlantic Voyage to the “Ocean State”
• April 18, 2018 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, archives, Art Deco, collectors, cruise ships, curators, Francis Xavier Luca, graphic arts, library donors, memorabilia, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., models, museums, ocean liners, oceanliners, passenger ships, rare books and special collections library, Silvia Barisione, transatlantic voyages, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: archives, archivists, art deco interiors, bas relief, British Movietone, British Pathe, Cie. Cle. Transatlantique, Clarmont (steamboat), collectors, Compagnie Generale Transatlantique, conservators, curators, Don Leavitt, Frederick and Patricia Supper Foundation, French Line, fundrasiers, Grace Line, Hudson-Fulton Centennial Celebration, Jean Dunand, La Chasse [The Hunt], librarians, maiden voyages, Matthew Schulte, medalions, model ships, newsreels, Normandie (Steamship), North River Steamboat, ocean liner aficionados, ocean liners, posters, powerships, Providence (Rhode Island), radio personalities, Robert Fulton, Ship History Center, SS Normandie, SSHSA, Steamship Historical Society of America, steamships, Stephen Lash, Steve Donovan, Thomas C. Ragan, Warwick (Rhode Island)
Much Ado about Mummies
• June 9, 2017 • Leave a CommentPosted in colonialism, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, Rochelle T. Pienn
Tags: Adams Memorial, Admiral William Thomas Sampson, archives, Aswan Low Dam, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Baldwin-Ziegler North Pole expedition, Berlin, Cairo Museum, cars, dogs, funerals, George Sherman Batcheller, Katherine Batcheller, Laplanders, librarians, Marian Adams, mummies, Muslims, Philae, Port of Suez, President Theodore ("Teddy") Roosevelt, President William Mckinley, Rachel Weisz, Reindeer, S. S. America, sarcophagi, The Mummy, tombs, Tromso (Norway), Universal Studios, Wilhelm II, Wolfsonian-FIU library
MEMORIAL PLAQUE BY MICHELE OKA DONER HONORS FOUNDING WOLFSONIAN LIBRARIAN, JAMES FINDLAY
• March 25, 2012 • Leave a CommentPosted in children's books, displays, Michelle Oka Doner, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., New Deal (1933-1939), rare books and special collections library, Wolfsonian, WPA
Tags: Art in public places, Bienes Center for the Literary Arts, Bienes Museum of the Modern Book, bronze, Broward Public Library, Dorothy Porter Wesley (1905-1995), exhibition catalogs, James Findlay (1943-2010), librarians, lost wax bronzes, memorials, Miami Airport terrazzo, Miami Beach artists, Michele Oka Doner, plaques, pop-up books, Vojtech Kubasta (1914-1992), Wolfsonian Foundation, WPA
NEW “NEW DEAL” ITEMS DONATED TO THE LIBRARY
• October 27, 2010 • Leave a CommentPosted in Christopher DeNoon, donations, gifts, New Deal era, Wolfsonian library
Tags: James Findlay (1943-2010), librarians, Tennessee Valley Authority, The Christopher DeNoon Collection for the Study of New Deal Culture
JAMES FINDLAY (1943-2010), IN MEMORIAM
• October 11, 2010 • 4 CommentsPosted in New Deal era, Wolfsonian library, WPA
Tags: Bienes Center for the Literary Arts, Bienes Museum of the Modern Book, James Findlay (1943-2010), librarians, obituary
