“All the World Is a Stage”: The Sketchbooks of Albert Wainwright
• August 19, 2023 • 3 CommentsPosted in 1920s, 1930s, Artists, collectors, curator, exhibitions, Fascism, fashion, Francis Xavier Luca, Great Britain, Italy, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, rare books and special collections library, stickers, The Wolfsonian Library, theatre, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian museum library
Tags: actors, Albert Wainwright (1893-1943), altarboys, Anne Bolyn, artist models, Balillas, carabinieri, Castleford (England), choirboys, Clippings, Collages, costume design, costume designers, costumes, Fascist youth, Florrie Forde, Gondolas, Hamburg (Germany), Henry Moore, Henry VIII, Heywood-Wakefield Company, Hitler Jugend, Hitler Youth, Katherine of Aragon, Labels, Leeds, Leeds College of Art, library installations, Luneburg, Magdeburg, male models, Marco Polo Bridge (Venice), memorabilia, Milan (Italy), models, performers, Robin Hood's Bay (North Yorkshire), sailors, set design, singers, Sketchbooks, Stickers, Theater design, theatrical sets, Venetian canals, Venice (Italy), watercolors, West Yorkshire (England), young men
The Tropicana Nightclub and How Cuban Women Fared Before, During, and After Fidel
• November 30, 2021 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, acquisitions, Communists, Cuba, dance, donations, Francis Xavier Luca, gender, gifts, graphic arts, library donors, memorabilia, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., models, museums, photography, postcards, posters, programs, promotional materials, The Wolfsonian Library, Vicki Gold Levi, Wolfsonian staff, women
Tags: "new woman", 1933, afrocubanismo, Ala Izquierda Estudiantil, American imperialism, Anacaona (band), Anacaona (Haitian cacica), Arcos de Cristal, Auténtico Party, barbudos, bobbed hair, burlesque, Cabarets, Carnival, Carteles (magazine), Casinos, Charles Gibson, choreographers, Cold War, Concepción (“Cuchito”) Castro Zaldarriaga, Conrado Walter Massaguer, corruption, counterrevolutionaries, Cuba, Cuban Caricature and Culture: The Art of Massaguer (Wolfsonian installation), Cuban musicians, Cuban presidents, Cuban Rebel Girls (film : 1959), Cuban Republic, Cuban Research Institute, Cuban-American filmmakers, dancers, Department of Social Ills, dictators, documentaries, Eden Concert, Errol Flynn, ethnicity, fans, Federación de Mujeres Cubanas, Federación Democrática de Mujeres Cubanas, female musicians, feminists, Fidel Castro, flappers, Folies Bergere, Frente Cívico de Mujeres Martianas (FCMM), gambling, gangsters, gender, Gerardo Machado (1871-1939), Gibson Girls, girl bands, Havana, Havana (Cuba), Hermandad de Madres de Marta Abreu, I Am Cuba (film), impresarios, JFK Library (Hialeah), jineteras, Life (magazine), Manuel Urrutia, Marianao (Cuba), Martin Fox, Massa-Girls, Miguelito Valdés, models, Mujeres Oposicionistas Unidas (M.O.U.), mulattas, musicians, Nightclubs, Ortodoxo party, performers, Promising Paradise: Cuban Allure--American Seduction (Wolfsonian exhibition), Prostitutes, prostitution, race, Ramón Grau, reeducation, rehabilitation, revolution, revolutionaries, Rita Montaner, Roderico Neyra, Rompiendo las Cadenas (film), rumba, singers, Social (magazine), Soy Cuba (film), striptease, Tetro Shanghai, tourists, Tropicana, Tropicana (Nightclub), vedettes, Vicki Gold Levi Collection, Victor de Correa, vintage photographs, We Were Strangers (film), women
LOVE AND COMMERCE: VALENTINE’S DAY CARDS FROM THE SILVIA RIPSTEIN COLLECTION AT THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY
• February 14, 2014 • Leave a CommentPosted in donations, gifts, 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, Ad agencies, BBDO Germany, brides, commercial advertising, Cosmetics, Couples, doves, Famous Products Co., flowers, Greeting cards, grooms, Hair color products, Hair products, High Life Perfume, holidays, love, Lovers, Lucky Brown, Lucky Jickey & Jockey, models, New Orleans, Newlyweds, romance, Roses, Schwarzkopf Professional, Silvia Ripstein, Sweet Georgia Brown, Valentine's Day, Valentine's Day cards
OBSCURA DAY TOUR OF SOME OF THE MORE OBSCURE OBJECTS IN THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY
• May 2, 2012 • 1 CommentPosted in acquisitions, bindings, collectors, displays, donations, Dutch Art Nouveau, gender, graphic arts, library donors, memorabilia, museums, political art, postcards, promotional materials, propaganda, rare books and special collections library, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, women
Tags: "behind the Scenes" tours, artifacts, Batik, Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), C. A. Lion Cachet (1864-1945), Camera Obscura, chamber pots, Dutch East Indies, Dutch Nieuwe Kunst, ephemera, flip flopping, games, hidden image works, John Cary, keepsakes, King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy, marriage, mechanical works, models, negative campaigns, novelties, Obscura Day, Philips' Planisphere, postcards, presidential elections, sex customs, Silvia Ripstein, stereographs, toilets, Vellum bindings, Victorian courting rituals, Victorian humor, watermarks
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