Amazing Grace
• February 15, 2018 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, collectors, donations, gifts, interns, library donors, memorabilia, museums, ocean liners, oceanliners, Panama Canal, passenger ships, promotional materials, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War (1939-1945), World War II, WWII
Tags: airlines, Ambrose (lightship), Brochures, cocktail stirrers, cruise lines, cruise ships, deck plans, Elise Grace Holloway, FIU History Graduate Student Researcher, Genevieve Rossin, glassware, Grace Line, Jones-White Act, luggage labels, matchcovers, menus, Pan-American Grace Airways, Panagra, Panama Canal, playing cards, porcelain, Promotional materials, Prudential Line, Santa Clara (Steamship), Santa Lucia (cargo ship), Santa Paula (cargo ship), Santa Rosa (cargo ship), silverware, Souvenirs, swizzle sticks, Thomas C. Ragan, Troopships, W. R. Grace & Company, William Grace Holloway III, World War (1939-1945)
FAULT LINES THROUGH TIME
• October 3, 2017 • Leave a CommentPosted in Balochistan, Earthquakes, Frederic A. Sharf, India, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, library donors, Pakistan, Panama Canal, Quetta
Tags: Baluchistan, British Army, colonialism, Compagnie Universelle du Canal Interoceanique, earthquakes, India, Mexico, natural disasters, Pakistan, Panama, Panama Canal, Quetta
Canal Inaugural
• August 15, 2017 • Leave a CommentPosted in colonialism, France, Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, Panama Canal, passenger ships, Rochelle T. Pienn, The Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: 1914, Albert Edward, albumen prints, Ancon (steamship), August 15 1914, Canals, Compagnie Universelle du Canal Interoceanique, dredges, Five Years at Panama, Maps, Panama, Panama Canal, Panama: the canal the country and the people, photograph albums, telegrams, Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919), Wolfred Nelson
Timing is Everything, or, Rare Panama Canal Views at the Wolfsonian-FIU Library
• June 22, 2016 • 1 CommentPosted in CLara Helena Palacio Luca, Francis Xavier Luca, Frederic A. Sharf, gifts, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, Panama Canal, passenger ships, Photograph albums, Rochelle T. Pienn, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: Isthmus of Panama, Joseph Pennell, malaria, Mosquitos, Pacific Mail Steamship Company, Panama Canal, Panama Railroad, Rochelle Pienn, Sharf Associate Librarian, Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919), William Gorgas, yellow fever
BEFORE THE WORLD WENT TO WAR: GLIMPSES FROM THE WOLFSONIAN-FIU LIBRARY COLLECTION
• August 29, 2014 • Leave a CommentPosted in book art, collectors, displays, donations, exhibitions, fashion, fashion for women, Futurism, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, Great Britain, Italian design, Italy, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, library donors, Panama Canal, persuasive arts, political art, propaganda, propaganda arts, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Vienna, Vienna Secession, war propaganda, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions, Wolfsonian-FIU library, women, World War I, WWI
Tags: 1914, Acerba, AIGA (American Institute of Graphic Arts), Alastair (1887-1969), Aubrey Beardsley (1872-1898), Austro-Hungarian Empire, Baron Hans Henning Voight (1887-1969), Belle Epoque, Blast (Vorticist manifesto), C. R. W. Nevinson (1889-1946), caricatures, Carmen, cartoons, Central Europe, Devrin D. Weiss, Dr. Nicolae Harsanyi, Edward Wadsworth (1889-1949), Egon Schiele (1890-1918), F. T. (Filippo Tommaso) Marinetti (1876-1944), First World War, Franz joseph I, Futurism, Futurist poetry, Georges Goursat (1863-1934), German Kaiser Wilhelm II (1859-1941), Insects, Italian Futurism, Italian futurists, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, John Bull, Kriegs-album der Lustige Blätter (periodicals), Krupp, L'Eroica (periodical), Lacerba (Futurist manifesto), Le Mot (periodical), Le Vrai & le faux chic, Lobsters, Mela Koehler (1885-1960), Omega Workshops, Panama Canal, Paul Iribe (1883-1935), propaganda, Raul Rodriguez, Rebel Art Centre, Satire, Sem (1863-1934), Sharf Associate Librarian, Sharf Associate Librarian Rochelle Pienn, silk advertisements, Social satire, Symbolist poetry, Ver Sacrum (Sacred Spring) magazine, Vienna, Vienna Secession, Vorticism, Vorticists, war cartoons, Wien, Wiener Werkstätte (Vienna Workshops), women's fashion, World War (1914-1918), Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957), Zang Tumb Tuuum, Zira Cigarettes
A CANAL IN CASES, OR, INSTALLING WONDERS NEVER CEASE AT THE WOLFSONIAN-FIU LIBRARY
• May 23, 2014 • Leave a CommentPosted in curator, curators, displays, donations, exhibit cases, exhibitions, Flagler Museum (Palm Beach), Frederic A. Sharf, gifts, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, library donors, museums, Panama Canal, rare books and special collections library, Rochelle T. Pienn, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Virtual library displays, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wonders Never Cease: The 100th Anniversary of the Panama Canal (Exhibition)
Tags: art handlers, Carlos Alejandro, Exhibition installation, Henry Morrison Flagler Museum, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, Panama Canal, Steve Forero-Paz, Wonders Never Cease: The 100th Anniversary of the Panama Canal (Wolfsonian Library exhibit: May-August 2014)
“THE JEWEL CITY” BY THE GOLDEN GATE: THE 1915 PANAMA-PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION
• April 24, 2014 • 2 CommentsPosted 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: Bernard Maybeck, Cawston Ostrich Farm, chocolate, cocoa beans, Exhibition buildings, Ferdinand Magellan, Ghirardelli, Golden Gate, Hercules, international expositions, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, Keystone View Company, Midways, Palace of Fine Arts (San Francisco), Panama Canal, Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915 : San Francisco), pavilions, souvenir viewbooks, stereographs, Thomas Hastings, Tower of Jewels, Uncle Sam, Vasco Núñez de Balboa, vintage postcards, William Howard Taft, World's Fairs
BEYOND THE RAILS BUT NOT OFF-TRACK: THE MITCHELL WOLFSON STUDY CENTRE RAILROAD EXHIBIT AND WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY TRAIN MATERIALS
• April 1, 2014 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, children's books, collectors, displays, donations, Dr. Nicolae Harsanyi, exhibitions, gifts, graphic designers, Great Depression, high speed trains, Japanese Empire, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, library donors, Miami Dade College, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., promotional materials, rare books and special collections library, Russo-Japanese War, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World's fairs
Tags: "riding the rails", 1904-1905, A Century of Progress International Exposition (1933-1934: Chicago, aerodynamics, and Society (Exhibition: MDC Museum of Art & Design), Beyond the Rails: Notes on Trains, Bill Iverson, Blackfeet Indians, calendars, Charles L. Marshall Jr., Children's books, Cloth books, Damarys Alvarez, Dayana Gonzalez, Ettore Bugatti (1881-1947), Fire-breathing dragons, Freedom Tower, From Italy to the Americas: Italo Balbo's Seaplane Squadrons (Wolfsonian library exhibition), Gabriella Perez, Garman Ranck, Giants Lighter Than Air (Wolfsonian library exhibit), Glacier National Park, Henry Dreyfuss (1904-1972), hobos, Ill.), Indians in commercial art, Industrial designers, Irina Slizskaya, Isthmus of Panama, Javier Gonzalez, Lea Nickless, Lisa Sole Williams, locomotives, London Midland and Scottish Railway Company, Louisiana Purchase International Exposition (1904 : St Louis), Melissa Diaz, Melvin M. Hunt Jr., Michael Rosario, Mitchell Wolfson Jr. Sudy Centre, Mo), New York World's Fair (1939-1940), Olga Garcia Mayoral, Panama Canal, progress, Quaker Oats Company, Rafael Rodriguez, Railroads, Raymond Loewy (1893-1986), Richard L. Tooke, Russo-Japanese War, Saalfield Muslin books, Sharf Associate Librarian Rochelle Pienn, Stephanie Hadad, Streamlined locomotives, Trains, transcontinental railroads, travel, Winold Reiss (1886-1953), World’s Columbian Exposition (Chicago: 1893), Yanai Nassar
WONDERS NEVER CEASE: THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE PANAMA CANAL AT THE WOLFSONIAN-FIU LIBRARY
• January 28, 2014 • Leave a CommentPosted in collectors, donations, Frederic A. Sharf, gifts, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, library donors, rare books and special collections library, Rochelle T. Pienn, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, trains, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: archives and special collections, Canals, coffin, E. J. (Elmer Joseph) Read (1862-?), engineering, Engineering feats, Gordon Grant (1875-1962), Isthmus of Panama, Joseph Pennell (1857-1927), libraries, Maps, Miraflores lock, Panama Canal, Panama Railroad, Rochelle Pienn, Sharf Associate Librarian, Trans-Isthmian Canal, travel, watercolors, wonder of the world
CURATORS AND COLLECTORS MEET TO DISCUSS WOLFSONIAN FELIKS TOPOLSKI EXHIBITION PLANS
• January 24, 2014 • 2 CommentsPosted in acquisitions, Adolf Hitler caricatures, Anti-Nazi propaganda, Artists, British Army, Children's propaganda books, collectors, Communists, displays, donations, exhibitions, gifts, Great Britain, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, library donors, Lynd Ward (1905-1985), Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, photography, propaganda, propaganda arts, rare books and special collections library, Russia, Soviet propaganda, Soviet Union, Steve Heller, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, war propaganda, wartime Britain, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War II, WWII
Tags: 1939-1945, Alexander Nevsky (film : 1938), Archangel, Blitz, Elinor J. Brecher, Feliks Topolski (1907-1989), Hitler-Stalin Pact, Katyn forest massacre, Leo Brecher, London (England), Lynd Ward (1905-1985), Margaret Bourke-White (1904-1971), Molotov-Ribbentrop Nonaggression Pact, Moscow, Panama Canal, Picture Post magazine, Poland, Red Army, Red Square, Russia at War / photographs by Margaret Bourke-White (London; New York: Hutchinson & Co. 1942?), Russia in War (London: Metheun & Co 1942), Russian front, Sergei Eisenstein (1898-1948), Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965), Sound recordings, Soviet Union, Steven Heller, Teresa Topolski, war artists, War photography, World War
