A LUXURIOUS TOUR DE FORCE: LE MIAMI, AMERICAN EXCURSIONIST, AND THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY COLLECTION
• June 14, 2014 • 1 CommentPosted in 1930s, cars, children's books, collectors, cruise ships, Cuba, dance, displays, donations, Dr. Laurence Miller, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, Great Depression, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, Laurence Miller Collection, library donors, memorabilia, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museum architecture, museums, ocean liners, oceanliners, Panama Canal, passenger ships, persuasive arts, Photograph albums, postcards, posters, promotional materials, rare books and special collections library, streamlined cars, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Theodore Pietsch, Theodore W. Pietsch, trains, transatlantic voyages, Vicki Gold Levi, Vintage postcards, VIP vistors, Virtual library displays, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wonders Never Cease: The 100th Anniversary of the Panama Canal (Exhibition), world cruises
Tags: advertising, Air travel, airships, American Excursionist, Around the world cruises, Art Deco architecture (Miami Beach), Biscayne Bay Speed Boat Regattas, Blackfeet Indians, Blackstone Cigar, Buick (automobile), Buses, California Limited (train), Canadian Pacific (railroad), Carl G. Fisher (1874-1939), Children's books, Clyde-Mallory Lines, Cuba, Cuban National Tourist Commission, Digital Asset Manager Derek Merleaux, Digital Resources Photographer David Almeida, domestic tourism, Downtown Miami (Fla.), Empire Builder (train), Flamingo Hotel (Miami Beach Fla.), Frederic A. Sharf, golf courses, Gondolas, Great Hurricane of 1926, Greyhound (bus service), H. Lawrence Wiggins III, Highway Traveler (magazine), Hindenburg (airship), Hotel Varadero, Hurricanes, Illinois Central Railroad, Indians in commercial art, Laurence Miller Collection, LE Miami (tradeshow), Little Havana, luxury hotels, luxury liners, Luxury travel, Maps, Mediterranean-revival style architecture, menus, Miami Beach Centennial, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., Nautilus Hotel (Miami Beach Fla.), Nippon Ysen Kaisha (N.Y.K. Line), Norddeutsheler Lloyd Bremen (North German Lloyd), North American Indians in art, Oriental Limited (train), Panama Line, Planes, polo grounds, Pueblo Indians, Roney Plaza Hotel (Miami Beach), Rosie the elephant, Sabena (airline), Sans Souci (nightclub), Santa Fe (railroad), Sharf Associate Librarian Rochelle Pienn, Sightseeing tours, Snowbirds, South Beach (Florida), Souvenirs, Swimming pools, T. W. Pietsch, Tea dances, Tennis courts, Thomas C. Ragan Collection, tourism, tourist trade, U.S.-Cuba tourist trade, U.S.-Cuba travel, Vicki Gold Levi Collection, Washington Storage Company (Miami Beach Fla.), Winold Reiss (1886-1953), Wonders Never Cease: The 100th Anniversary of the Panama Canal (Wolfsonian library exhibit), zeppelins
A TRIP BACK IN TIME TO THE GILDED AGE AT THE WOLFSONIAN-FIU LIBRARY
• April 5, 2014 • Leave a CommentPosted in architecture, displays, exhibitions, fashion, fashion for women, international expositions, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, postcards, promotional materials, propaganda arts, racism, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Vintage postcards, VIP vistors, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, women, World's fairs
Tags: "white city", 1870s, 1880s, 1890s, 1900, 3-D, A Bird in a Gilded Cage (song), Advertising cards, Arthur J. Lamb (1870-1928), B. T. Babbitt Soap Powder, California Midwinter International Exposition (1894 : San Francisco), Centennial International Exhibition (1876: Philadelphia), Charles Dana Gibson (1867-1944), Charles Dudley Warner (1829-1900), Chief Simon Pokagon, Children in advertising, Columbia's Courtship, commercial advertising, commercial art, Diamond Dyes, Dr. Joel M. Hoffman, Eiffel Tower, Exhibition buildings, Expositions, Francis Xavier Luca, George B. Post (architectural firm), George Washington Gale Ferris, Gilded Age, Heinz, Heinz Ocean Pier (Atlantic City NJ), Henry Von Tilzer (1872-1946), International exhibitions, Jr. (1859–1896), Kate Greenaway Collection, Kate Greenaway Collection (Wolfsonian-FIU library), Krupp, Machinery Hall, Mad Men, Manufacturers and Liberal Arts building, Mark Twain (1835-1910), Midways, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., North American Indians in art, Orientalism, pavilions, Penobscot Indians, Red Man's Greeting, Singer sewing machines, Soap boxes, Statues, stereographs, The Gilded Age (1873), VIP visitors, Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, Walter Crane (1845-1915), World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago), World’s Fairs
HAPPY 97TH BIRTHDAY, NATIONAL PARK SERVICE, FROM THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY
• August 24, 2013 • 3 CommentsPosted in 1930s, Artists, book art, FAP, Federal One, forestry, graphic arts, graphic designers, Great Depression, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, portfolios, posters, preservation, promotional materials, propaganda arts, propaganda posters, rare books and special collections library, silk screen, trains, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: "See America First" campaign, Alice Moore Hubbard (1861-1915), American Indian portraits, Arts & Crafts movement, Benjamin Abromowitz (1917-2011), Blackfeet Indians, Buffalo nickel, Conservationists, Deer, Dorothy Waugh, Dust Bowl, dust storms, Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915), Empire Builder, Environmental movement, Everglades National Park, Exodusters, Federal Arts Project (FAP), Frederick Law Olmsed Jr, George Biddle (1885-1973), Glacier National Park, Great Northern Railway, Great Plains, Harold E. Keeler (1905-1968), Harry Herzog, John Muir, John R. Wagner, National Park Service, National Park Service Organic Act, Native Americans in art, New York City Art Project, North American Indians in art, posters, Preservationists, President Woodrow Wilson, R.M.S. Lusitania, Sierra Club, Silkscreened posters, the "Dirty Thirties", the Roycrofters, the West, Waterfalls, Winold Reiss (1886-1953), Work Projects Administration (WPA), Works on Paper Dept., Works Progress Administration (WPA), Yellowstone National Park, Yosemite National Park
A WINTER FLURRY OF UNIVERSITY FACULTY AND STUDENT VISITORS AT THE WOLFSONIAN-FIU LIBRARY
• January 24, 2013 • 1 CommentPosted in FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: Advertisements, Andre Durenceau (1904-1985), Architects, Art Deco, Art Nouveau, automobile engines, Blackfeet Indians, calendars, Crystal Palace Exhibition (1851 : London), designers, dragons, Empire Builder, ephemera, exhibitions, Exposition internationale des arts décoratifs et industriels modernes (1925 :Paris), Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959), Glacier National Park, Grammar of Ornament / by Owen Jones, graphic artists, Great Depression, Great Northern Railway, Helen West Heller (1872-1955), Holland Robinson, Industrial design, Installation Art, Kiosks, locomotives, Mac Harshberger (1900-1975), mechanical works, North American Indians in art, Oriental Line, Pochoir plates, postcards, Prairie Style (Architecture), Space Society and the Digital, Store window displays, The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations (1851 : London), Tori Arpad-Cotta, transparencies, typewriters, Wasmuth Portfolio, William (“Bill”) Bradley (1868-1962), Winifred Elysse Newman, Winold Reiss (1886-1953), Wood and linoleum block printing, Works Progress Administration, WPA
