MIAMI BEACH’S FLAMINGO HOTEL: A PRESIDENT, A PACHYDERM, AND A PUBLICITY HOUND: PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS FROM THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY COLLECTION
• January 6, 2015 • 3 CommentsPosted in architecture, circuses, Photograph albums, photography, promotional materials, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: Ann Rossiter, barrier islands, Bathing suits, bungalows, Carl G. Fisher (1874-1939), Carl II (the elephant), circus animals, Cocolobo Club (Miami Beach Fla.), cottages, deep-sea fishing, development, Dixie Highway, elephants, Flamingo Hotel (Miami Beach Fla.), golf, golf caddies, golf courses, Gondolas, Hotels, Hurricanes, John Stiles Collins (1837-1928), Lincoln Hotel (Miami Beach Fla.), Miami Beach (Fla.), Miami Beach City Hall Archive, nouveau riche, pachyderms, Palm Beach (Fla.), polo grounds, President-elect Warren G. Harding, presidential vacations, publicity, publicity gimmicks, real estate promoters, Roman Pools (Miami Beach Fla.), Rosie the elephant, Shadow VI (yacht), sport fishing, Thomas J. Pancoast
WE DID RETURN: MEL VICTOR’S WWII PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE PHILIPPINES AT THE WOLFSONIAN
• October 21, 2014 • 1 CommentPosted in donations, gifts, library donors, Pacific campaign (WWII), Philippines, photography, rare books and special collections library, Second World War (1939-1945), The Wolfsonian-FIU library, veterans, War Photography, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War II, WWII
Tags: Aerial photography, Battle of Manila (Feb. 1945), Beauty contests, Beauty pageants, Combat photograhers, Donna Victor, General Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964), Gulf of Leyte, Imperial Japanese Navy, Japanese Imperial Navy, Leyte Island (the Philippines), Mel Victor (1923-2003), Mel Victor WWII Pacific Theater Photograph Collection, Miami Beach (Fla.), Miami Beach Centennial celebration, Miami Beach City Hall Archive, War photography
POSTERS, PICTOGRAPHS, PICTOGRAMS, AND PUBLIC HISTORY AT THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY
• October 17, 2014 • 1 CommentPosted in 1930s, acquisitions, archives, Artists, book art, cataloging, Christopher DeNoon, collectors, displays, donations, exhibitions, FDR, FIU, FIU community, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, Great Depression, History Department, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., Modesto Maidique campus, museums, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, posters, promotional materials, rare books and special collections library, Rural Electrification Administration (REA), student curators, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Virtual library displays, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian fellows, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War II, WWII
Tags: American-flag shipping, An Official Guide to the Army Air Forces, Booklets, Clara Helena Palacio Luca, Council of Women for Home Missions and Missionary Education Movement, Farm Security Administration (FSA), FIU Professor Ken Lipartito, Francis Xavier Luca, Frost Museum (Florida International University), Greenbelt Towns: A Demonstration in Suburban Planning, Guide for Members of REA Cooperatives, Henry A. Wallace (1888-1965), Lester Beall (1903-1969), Little Waters: A Study of Headwater Streams & Other Little Waters, Miami Beach Centennial celebration, Miami Beach City Hall Archive, Michael Golec, Migrants of the Crops, Pictograms, Pictographs, Pictorial graphics, pictorial statistics, posters, Public History, Resettlement Administration (RA), Robert T. Beall (REA economist), Rural Electrification Administration (REA), Sand in Their Boots, Sarah Rovang, shipbuilding, Statistically-Speaking (Wolfsonian library exhibit), statistics, The Christopher DeNoon Collection for the Study of New Deal Culture, Their Use and Relations to the Land, U.S. Army Air Force, U.S. Maritime Commission
