UNHAPPY ANNIVERSARY, RMS LUSITANIA: SOME WOLFSONIAN REFLECTIONS ONE HUNDRED YEARS (AND ONE DAY) LATER
• May 8, 2015 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1915, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: atrocities, cartoons, civilian casualties, contraband, Cruiser Rules, Cunard, Dachshunds, devils, drowning, Elbert Hubbard, German sympathizers, Hamburg-Amerika Linie, Ireland, Isador and Ida Straus, John Bull, Kaiser Wilhelm II, King Herod, Liverpool, Louis Raemaekers (1869-1956), Mauritania, Mexican intervention 1914, military preparedness, Miss Liberty, moustaches, Norddeutscher Lloyd, ocean liners, passengerships, peace at any price, pickelhaube helmets, pirates, President Woodrow Wilson, propaganda, Richard Preston Prichard, RMS Lusitania, Satan, scarecrows, Sealions, Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan, steamships, strawmen, strict neutrality, submarines, Thomas C. Ragan, torpedoes, U-20, U-Boats, Uncle Sam, unrestricted submarine warfare, white feathers, World War (1914-1918), WWI
LOU REED: A WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY TRIBUTE
• October 29, 2013 • 1 CommentPosted in 1930s, American left artists, Artists, book art, Communist Party of the United States, Communist Party of the United States of America, Communists, graphic arts, graphic designers, Great Depression, Jews, leftist artists, museums, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, persuasive arts, photography, political art, racism, rare books and special collections library, Scottsboro Trial, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Uncategorized, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, women
Tags: African-Americans, American Artists' Congress, Book jackets, boxing, Breadlines, burlesque, Charles Laborde (1886-1941), Clare Veronica Hope Leighton, Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA), Comrade Gulliver, Dirty Boulevard (song), Dust jackets, Erskine Caldwell, Harlem Renaissance, Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), Ida Abelman, J. B. Turnbull, KKK, Ku Klux Klan, Lou Reed (1942-2013), low life, Lucienne Bloch, Margaret Bourke-White (1904-1971), Miss Liberty, New York City, Peter Berent, racism, Rues et visages de New-York, Song lyrics, Statue of Liberty National Monument, urban life, Winold Reiss (1886-1953)
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, U. S. POSTAL SERVICE, FROM THE WOLFSONIAN-FIU LIBRARY
• February 20, 2013 • 2 CommentsPosted in 1930s, acquisitions, collectors, donations, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, Great Depression, library donors, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, NRA, postcards, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Vicki Gold Levi, Vintage postcards, war propaganda, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War II, WWII
Tags: American artists, Benjamin Franklin, Blue eagle (thunderbird) campaign, Cachets, Charles Turzak (1899-1986), CLara Helena Palacio-de Luca, Envelopes, First Day covers, Flags, Francis Xavier Luca, George Washington on stamps, Great Depression, Home front, Miss Liberty, muralists, National Recovery Administration (NRA), New Deal America, Philately, Phoenix (Mythical bird), Post Office, postcards, Postmarks, Postmaster General, President George Washington, President's Day, Stage coaches in art, stamp-collecting, stamps, Statue of Liberty National Monument, U.S. Postal Service, V-J Day (1945), Victory Gold Levi Collection, Victory sign, Woodcuts
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
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