Visit by Mandela Washington Fellows
• July 8, 2017 • Leave a CommentPosted in acquisitions, Boers, British Army, collectors, colonial propaganda, colonial tourism, colonialism, cruise ships, donations, FIU, Florida International University, Francis Xavier Luca, Frederic A. Sharf, gifts, Italy, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, Laurence Miller Collection, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., ocean liners, rare books and special collections library, South African War, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, women, Zulus
Tags: Abissinia, Africa, Africa Oriental, Africans, Angola, Aurelio Bertiglia, bas relief, Belgian Congo, Brochures, Charles Montague Elliott Wilson, Colonial expositions, Congo, Deutsch Afrika-Linien, Deutsche Ost-Afrika-Linie, East Africa, Equatorial Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, European colonies in Africa, Gabon, indigenous peoples, International exhibitions, Italo-Ethiopian War (1935-1936), Mandela Washington Fellowship, Maps, Mocambique, Musee des Colonies (Paris), native peoples, Niger, photograph albums, Portuguese empire, Sierra Leone, Sketchbooks, Somalia, Somaliland, South Africa, Steve Heller, sub-Saharan Africa, Union Castle Line, Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI), Zanzibar, Zulus
Around the World at the Wolfsonian-FIU Library
• September 20, 2016 • Leave a CommentPosted in Coolies, ethnohistory, Far East, FIU, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, labor, library donors, Photograph albums, photography, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library
Tags: 1st Battalion East Surrey Regiment, British Empire, China, Church Missionary Society, Coolies, FIU Department of Global & Sociocultural Studies, Florida International University faculty, Global & Sociocultural Studies, graduate students, Miguel Covarrubias (1904-1957), Nicolae Harsanyi, photograph albums, Professor Gail Hollander, Rochelle Pienn, Royal Artillery, unskilled manual laborers
The Subtle Beast, or, Views of Pakistan Past from the Wolfsonian-FIU Library
• August 10, 2016 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, acquisitions, Afghanistan, British Army, colonialism, Earthquakes, Frederic A. Sharf, gifts, Great Britain, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, library donors, Pakistan, Photograph albums, photography, Quetta, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, War Photography, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: 1935 Quetta earthquake, Afghanistan, British 1st Indian Division Signals, HBO's The Night Of, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, Mohmand Operations, Pakistan, Peshawar Brigade, photograph albums, Quetta (Pakistan), Rochelle Pienn, suicide bombings, T. Fuller, Terrorism, terrorists, tribal wars
BURMESE DAZE, OR, A BRITISH OASIS IN PICTURES AT THE WOLFSONIAN-FIU LIBRARY
• June 16, 2015 • Leave a CommentPosted in Burma, Ceylon, colonialism, Dover (England), Golden Pagoda, Great Britain, India, Irrawaddy River, Mandalay, photography, Rangoon, The Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: Adrian Jones, Captain Henry Marshall Barnes, Felice Beato, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, Northumberland Artillery, photograph albums, Queen Victoria, Rochelle Pienn
THE OLD KING COLE AND OTHER “LOST” MIAMI BEACH HOTELS: SOME WOLFSONIAN HIGHLIGHTS
• January 21, 2015 • Leave a CommentPosted in Uncategorized
Tags: 1920s, Architects, archives, Art Deco (architecture), Art Deco Historic District, Art Deco Weekend (2015), Art Moderne architecture, Barbara Baer Capitman (1920-1990), Beaux-Arts architecture, Brochures, Carl G. Fisher (1874-1939), Carolyn Klepser, cottages, dining rooms, Flamingo Hotel, golf courses, heraldic decoration, hotel lobbies, Howard Hilder, John Stiles Collins (1837-1928), King Cole Hotel, Lake Surprise (Miami Beach), lectures, Lincoln Hotel, Lost Miami Beach (book), Medievalism, Mediterranean-style architecture, Miami Design Preservation League, military hospitals, Nautilus Hotel, Old King Cole (legend), Paintings, photograph albums, polo fields, Schultze & Weaver (architects), Spanish-influenced architecture, winter resorts
Don’t Take My Kodachrome Away, or, What I Did on My Summer Leave from The Wolfsonian-FIU Library
• June 21, 2014 • 1 CommentPosted in collectors, colonial propaganda, colonialism, donations, Frederic A. Sharf, gifts, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, library donors, Photograph albums, photography, Rare Book School, rare books and special collections library, Rochelle T. Pienn, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: A. J. Lavie, albumen prints, Alderman library, ambrotypes, Atelier Boba, carbon prints, collodion prints, cyanotypes, daguerreotypes, darkrooms, Frederic Houlton Summers, gelatin prints, H. W. Benson, Image Permanence Institute (IPI), India, James M. Reilly, Japan, kallitypes, Kodachrome, Panama, photograph albums, photographs, Photography, platinotypes, Polaroid, Professional development, Rare Book School (Charlottesville VA), Ryan Boatright, Sharf Associate Librarian Rochelle Pienn, Thomas Jefferson, tintypes, Tosco Peppe, University of Virginia
A TALE OF TWO CITIES (AND THREE MUSEUMS): THE RED STAR LINE AND EUGEEN VAN MIEGHEM MUSEUMS (ANTWERP), AND THE WOLFSONIAN (MIAMI BEACH)
• April 12, 2014 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, anti-Semitism, antisemitism, cruise ships, curator, donations, Dr. Laurence Miller, exhibitions, gifts, Great Depression, Holocaust, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, Nazism, ocean liners, oceanliners, Orientalism, passenger ships, photography, postcards, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, transatlantic voyages, VIP vistors, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, world cruises, World War I, World War II, WWI, WWII
Tags: Albert Einstein, Arnold Bernstein, Around the world cruises, Ellis Island Immigration Station (N.Y. and N.J.), Erwin Joos, Eugeen Van Mieghan (1875-1930), Eugeen Van Mieghem Museum, Frederic A. Sharf, Holland Amerika Lijn, International Navigation Company (Philadelphia), Irving Berlin, Laurence Miller, Nazis, Orientalism in art, Philip Heylen, photograph albums, pogroms, Red Star Line, Roland C. Fenner, S. S. Belgenland (Steamship), S.S. Arabic, S.S. Neiuw Amsterdam, Société Anonyme de Navigation Belgo-Américaine (Antwerp), Vaderland (Steamship), Vice Mayor Philip Heylen of the City of Antwerp
