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)
A Tribute to the Red Cross and Heroic Nurses on the COVID-19 Front Lines
• April 7, 2020 • 3 CommentsPosted in American war propaganda, Artists, Disaster relief, First World War (1914-1918), FIU community, Florida International University, Francis Xavier Luca, gender, gifts, graphic arts, Italy, Lawrence Wiggins III, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., political art, postcards, posters, propaganda, propaganda posters, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian Library, war propaganda, Wolfsonian staff, women, World War (1914-1918), World War I, WWI
Tags: American Expeditionary Forces, American flag, army, civilian casualties, Columbia, corona, coronavirus, covid 19, face masks, Henry S. Hacker, Influenza Pandemic (1918), Jennie Mazzei Micela, Miami Beach, navy, Nurses, nurses and nursing, pandemics, postcards, posters, President Woodrow Wilson, public health, Red Cross nurses, Sheet music covers, Spanish flu epidemic, Vincenzo Mazzei
The Wide Far Eastern Sea, or, Russo-Japanese War materials from the Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection
• May 27, 2016 • Leave a CommentPosted in Battle of Tsushima Strait, Japan, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, publishers' decorative bindings, Rochelle T. Pienn, Russia, Russo-Japanese War, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Uncategorized
Tags: battleships, Memorial Day, Miami Beach, Urban Beach Weekend, war correspondents
BEAUTY AND THE BEACH: WOMEN’S BATHING SUITS AND THE PROMOTION OF MIAMI BEACH
• May 6, 2015 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, donations, fashion, fashion for women, gender, Great Depression, health, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, Norman Bel Geddes, photography, postcards, rare books and special collections library, Second World War (1939-1945), swimwear, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Vintage postcards, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, women, World War (1939-1945), World War II, WWII
Tags: 1920s, Annette Kellerman, Army Air Forces, bathing attire, bathing beaches, Bathing suits, bathinghouses, beaches, Beauty pageants, Bettie Page, bikinis, Brigitte Bardot (actress), Brochures, Bunny Yeager, Carl G. Fisher (1874-1939), Casinos, City of Miami Beach News Bureau, Clara Helena Palacio Luca, Copa City Nightclub (Miami Beach Fla.), Diane Varga, Dolores Kirby, Donna Victor, Flamingo Hotel (Miami Beach Fla.), Francis Xavier Luca, greyhounds, Hardie Casino, Jane Fisher, Lanita Kent, Lawrence Wiggins, Louis Reard, Mel Victor, Miami Beach, Miami Beach (Fla.), Miami Beach City Hall, Miami Beach fiftieth anniversary celebrations, Miami Beach Historical Archive, Miami Beach Kennel Club, Miss Miami Beach Golden Girl Pageant, Miss Universe Beauty Pageant, Norma Eve Sherer, Norman Bel Geddes, postcards, promotional literature, Roney Plaza Hotel, Second World War (1939-1945), Shelly Macy Sharpe, Smith's Casino, Sun-Ray Sanitarium (Miami Fla.), Swimsuits, Thermometers, winter resorts, women, WWII
MEMORABLE SEA TRAGEDIES, AND AN AFFAIR TO REMEMBER: RECENT DONATIONS TO THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY COLLECTION
• October 10, 2013 • Leave a CommentPosted in collectors, cruise ships, Cunard Line, donations, Frederic A. Sharf, gifts, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, library donors, ocean liners, oceanliners, passenger ships, rare books and special collections library, Rochelle T. Pienn, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Uncategorized, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, world cruises, World War I, World War II, WWI, WWII
Tags: 1874-1965, Antwerp (Belgium), Around the world cruises, Belgenland (Steamship), Disasters at sea, Editorial cartoons, Ellis Island Immigration Station (N.Y. and N.J.), Fenner, Franconia (Ship : 1923-1956), Frederic A. Sharf, Icebergs, Laurence Miller, log books, Lusitania (Steamship), MacArthur Causeway, Miami Beach, R.M.S. Titanic, Red Star Line, Roland C. Fenner, Thomas C. Ragan, Troopships, U-Boats, Uncle Sam, unrestricted submarine warfare, White Star Line, Winston Churchill
VISIT TO THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY BY MEMBERS OF THE MIAMI BEACH WOMEN’S CLUB
• October 4, 2012 • 2 CommentsPosted in American architects, architects, architecture, archives, displays, donations, gifts, memorabilia, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, VIP vistors, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: Art Deco (architecture), Art Deco architects, Art Deco architecture (Miami Beach), Bass Museum building, Betty Wilcox, Carl G. Fisher (1874-1939), Collins Bridge, Dawn Hugh, donors, Elizabeth Goodnow (Mrs. Clayton Sedgwick Cooper), Frances Griffith, Great Miami Hurricane (1926), H. Lawrence Wiggins III, Haddon Hall, Historic buildings (Miami Beach), historic builings, HistoryMiami Archives & Research Center, Hurricanes, John Stiles Collins (1837-1928), June Wood, Katherine Pancoast, L. Murray Dixon, Maria Valiente, MBWC presidents, Miami Beach, Miami Beach developers, Miami Beach Public Library, Miami Beach Women's Club, Miami Beach Women's Club Archive, Mrs. Clayton Sedgwick Cooper, Nancy Smith, real estate promoters, Ruby Dixon, Schultze and Weaver, The Marlin Hotel, The Raleigh Hotel, The Ritz Plaza Hotel, The Senator Hotel, The Tides Hotel, The Tiffany Hotel, The Victor Hotel, Thomas J. Pancoast, Violet Storer
RIO DE JANEIRO COMES TO MIAMI BEACH IN AUGUST
• August 20, 2011 • Leave a CommentPosted in Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: A Century of Progress International Exposition, Alberto Santos-Dumont (1873-1932), Brazil, Brazilian culture, Brazilian Film Festival, Brazilians in South Florida, Capoeira Abolicao, Centenary of Brazilian Independence (Rio de Janeiro 1922), Chicago 1933-1934, Fascists, flight, Italo Balbo (1896-1940), Miami Beach, President Herbert Hoover, Rio de janeiro, seaplanes, Tarsila da Amaral (1886-1973), transatlantic flights
RACK AND ROLL! BICYCLING THE BEACH, SO-BE STYLE!
• March 18, 2011 • 3 CommentsPosted in Uncategorized, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian museum library
Tags: Advertisements, Art Nouveau, bicycles, bicycling, bike racks, Bill Bradley (1868-1962), Bogota (Colombia), book designers, Brochures, graphic artists, green technology, Miami Beach, SoBe, solar-power, Victorian art
PLEASURE BOATING, MIAMI-STYLE!
• February 17, 2011 • Leave a CommentPosted in cruise ships, Cuba, donations, gifts, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Laurence Miller Collection, Vicki Gold Levi, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection
Tags: Advertisements, Brochures, Florida Intracoastal Waterway, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Miami, Miami Beach, Miami Beach Convention Center, Miami Boat Show, Miami Marina, pleasure craft, Power boats, Sailing ships, South Florida, Strictly Sail, tourism, yachts and yachting
DEVASTATING HURRICANE HITS MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA!
• August 14, 2010 • 2 CommentsPosted in donations, gifts, Great Depression, library donors, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: 1920s, Florida, Great Depression, Great Miami Hurricane (1926), hurricane season, La Domenica del Corriere (periodical), Land booms, Miami Beach, Michael Hughes
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