THE FALSE PROMISES OF PROPAGANDA: AFRICAN-AMERICANS AND THE GREAT WAR IN THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY COLLECTION
• February 8, 2015 • 1 CommentPosted in African American History, American war propaganda, Children's propaganda books, Civil Rights Movement, displays, exhibit cases, exhibitions, FIU, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, gender, graphic arts, History Department, Miami Ad School, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, Pamela K. Harer, political art, posters, propaganda, propaganda arts, propaganda posters, rare books and special collections library, student curators, Student exhibit, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, war propaganda, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions, Wolfsonian-FIU library, women, World War (1914-1918), World War I, WWI
Tags: 369th Infantry Regiment, Addie Waite Hunton (1866-1943), African-Americans, American Expeditionary Force (AEF), American flags, “Negro” soldiers, Black History Month, Colonel Thomas A. Roberts, Colored troops, Croix de Guerre, E. G. Renesch (printer), Fireplaces, Hearths, Henry Lincoln Johnson (1897-1929), heroes, James Reese Europe (1881-1919), Joseph-Félix Boucher (1853-1937), Kathryn Magnolia Johnson (1878-?), Miami Ad School, Monika Pobog-Weckert, Negroes, Patriotism, prejudice, racial strife, racism, recruiting posters, segregation, the Great War, the Harlem Hellfighters, World War (1914-1918), WWI, YMCA
THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A CIVIL WAR: PARALLEL PERPSECTIVES ON CONFLICT AND PROPAGANDA FROM THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY COLLECTION
• September 15, 2013 • 1 CommentPosted in 1930s, Adolf Hitler caricatures, Anti-Nazi propaganda, Artists, Children's propaganda books, displays, Fascism, Great Britain, Holocaust, Jews, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, Nazi propaganda, Nazism, persuasive arts, political art, postcards, propaganda, propaganda arts, propaganda posters, racism, rare books and special collections library, school visits to The Wolfsonian, Spanish Civil War, Vintage postcards, war propaganda, wartime Britain, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War I, World War II, WWI, WWII
Tags: "Reds", al-Qaeda jihadists, atrocities, Bilbao (Spain), cartoons, Cathedrals, Catholic nuns, Chas Laborde (1886-1941), Chemical warfare, Chemical weapons, civilian casualties, Convents, Crucifixion, gas attacks, Gas masks, German occupied territories, Islamic extremists, Joseph Goebbels (1897-1945), Joseph Stalin, Kaiser Wilhelm II (Emperor of Germany), Latakia (Syria), leaflets, Louis Raemaekers (1869-1956), Maaloula (Syria), massacres, Miami Ad School, Monasteries, Nuns, P.O.W.s, Photos don't lie, President Bashar al_Assad of Syria, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Prison camps, Prisoners of war, Reims, religious wars, Republic of Salo, Sacred sites, Terror, terrorists, Thomas Hart Benton (1889-1975), U-Boat attacks, War and religion, war prisoners, Wittenberg (Germany)
THE PERSUASIVE POWER OF PROPAGANDA: MIAMI AD SCHOOL STUDENTS AT THE WOLFSONIAN
• September 6, 2013 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, Adolf Hitler caricatures, donations, Fascism, graphic arts, graphic designers, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, Nazi propaganda, Nazism, persuasive arts, political art, portfolios, postcards, posters, promotional materials, propaganda, propaganda arts, propaganda posters, rare books and special collections library, school visits to The Wolfsonian, Steve Heller, stickers, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, visual thinking strategies, VTS, war propaganda, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War II, WWII
Tags: Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), Adolf Hitler caricatures, advertising, Antonio Arias Bernal (1914-1960), commercial art, Donald Duck, Joseph Goebbels (1897-1945), leaflets, manipulation, Martijn F. Le Coutre, Miami Ad School, Monika Pobog-Malinowska, Nazis, persuasion, postcards, posters, print media, propaganda, Sheet music covers, Steve Heller, Viktor Nikolaevich Deni (1893-1946), war propaganda
SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE: A HODGE-PODGE OF MATERIALS PULLED FOR A VARIETY OF WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY VISITORS
• May 26, 2012 • 1 CommentPosted in American war propaganda, anti-Semitism, antisemitism, archives, Bauhaus, Bill Bradley, book art, Christopher DeNoon, colonial propaganda, colonial tourism, colonialism, Cuba, Cuba Style, David Almeida, decorative arts, Digital Library Specialist, displays, donations, Dr. Nicolae Harsanyi, exhibitions, FDR, Federal Theatre Project (U.S.), FIU, FIU community, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, Frederic A. Sharf, FTP, Futurism, Genoa, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, Great Depression, History Department, Holocaust, international expositions, Italian design, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, Jews, library donors, Mellon curriculum development grant, Nazi propaganda, Nazism, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, persuasive arts, promotional materials, propaganda, propaganda arts, rare books and special collections library, Rochelle T. Pienn, school visits to The Wolfsonian, Shenandoah Middle School, Spanish-American War, Steve Heller, student curators, Student exhibit, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Vicki Gold Levi, Virtual library displays, war propaganda, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian Education Department, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War I, World War II, World's fairs, WPA, WWI, WWII
Tags: A. M. Cassandre (1901-1968), Alexander Gordon, Art Deco, Art Nouveau, Bacardi archivist Patricia Suau, Bauhaus, Bill Bradley (1868-1962), calendars, Caribbean tourism, comparative colonialism, Conrado W. Massaguer, Dopolavoro, Fascist Italy, Festa dell'Uva di Rovereto, Fortunato Depero (1892-1960), Good Neighbor Fleet, Graphic Design & Advertising Art Institute of Ft. Lauderdale, Gustavo Perez-Firmat, Hendrick Nicolaas Werkman (1882-1945), Herbert Bayer (1900-1985), International exhibitions, Italian Futurism, Ken Botnick, Mac Harshberger (1900-1975), Margaret Dikovitskaya, Mellon grant recipiants, Miami Ad School, Moore-McCormack Lines, New Deal America, Nicolas, Patriotic Propaganda for WOmen and Children on the Home Front (virtual exhibit), Paul Iribe (1883-1935), Professor Peter Andrew, Rex Chung, Rosanne Gibel, Stephen Austin University (Texas), The Christopher DeNoon Collection for the Study of New Deal Culture, The New York World's Fair (1939-40), Thomas C. Ragan, U.S.-Cuba tourist trade, Varadero Beach (Cuba), When Hearts Are Trumps / by Tom Hall, wine, Wine Bubbly and Their Merchants (Wolfsonian Library Exhibit), Winifred Elysse Newman, Wolfsonian fellows, World's Fairs
WINE IS FINE … MIAMI AD SCHOOL STUDENT TOUR THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY EXHIBIT ON WINE ADVERTISEMENTS
• April 27, 2012 • Leave a CommentPosted in Artists, Bill Bradley, displays, Dr. Nicolae Harsanyi, graphic arts, graphic designers, Herbert Bayer, Miami Ad School, promotional materials, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: A Werner & Co., Advertisements, Champagne, Champagne region (France), commercial advertising, David Almeida, Don Quixote, Dulcinea del Toboso, ephemera, J Ramos Ruiz & Cia (Buenos Aires), library tours, Littke (Humgary), Mateo Fortea (Buenos Aires), Miami Ad School, Miss Liberty, Pleasant Valley Wine Company (Hammondsport NY), Törley (Hungary), Vaud (Switzerland), Wine Bubbly and Their Merchants (Wolfsonian Library Exhibit), wine labels, Women in advertising
