What’s On the Menu? The American Appetite for French Cabaret!
• April 2, 2024 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, Artists, collectors, curators, dance, displays, donations, Francis Xavier Luca, gender, gifts, graphic arts, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, postcards, promotional materials, rare books and special collections library, Wolfsonian library exhibits
Tags: "Revue Folies Bergere", 1939-1940 New York World's Fair, Ambassadeurs (theatre-restaurant), Aquacade, Beryl Wallace, Billy Rose, Billy Rose's Diamond Horseshoe (nightclub), Broadway (NYC), Cab Calloway, Cabarets, Cafe Zanzibar (nightclub), Casa Mañana, Chez Paree (nightclub), Chicago, chorus girls, Club Harlem (nightclub), Cotton Club, Dave Wolper's Hurricane Club, Duke Ellington, E. M. Loew, Earl Carroll, Earl Carroll's (supper club-theater), Eastern Steamship Lines, Edith Piaf, exotic dancers, floor shows, Folies Bergere (film: 1936), Frank Sennes' Moulin Rouge (nightclub), French Casino (nightclub), Glamour, Great Depression, Great Lakes Exposition (1936 : Cleveland Ohio), Hollywood, Hollywood Cabaret Restaurant, International Casino (nightclub), Latin Quarter (nightclub), Lou Walters, Maurice Chevalier, menus, Miami Beach, Moulin Rouge, New York City, Nicky Blair's Carnival (dinner club), Paradise Cabaret Restaurant, photograph sleeves, postcards, programs, revues, Rudy Vallee, Sally Rand, showgirls, Texas Centennial Exposition, The Man from the Folies Bergere (film: 1935), Thomas Hunter Henderson, vaccinations, Versailles (nightclub), What's On The Menus (Wolfsonian installation)
Conrado Massaguer Exhibition on Google Arts and Culture
• December 22, 2020 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, acquisitions, Adolf Hitler caricatures, Anti-Nazi propaganda, archives, Artists, collectors, Cuba, curator, donations, exhibitions, Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, Great Depression, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, persuasive arts, political art, postcards, promotional materials, propaganda, propaganda arts, The Wolfsonian Library, Vicki Gold Levi, war propaganda, Wolfsonian staff, World War (1939-1945), World War II, WWII
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