Through a Glass Darkly: Colonial Views of Africa
• July 26, 2018 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, children's books, Children's propaganda books, colonial propaganda, colonial tourism, colonialism, cruise ships, displays, donations, Dr. Nicolae Harsanyi, Ethiopia, exhibitions, Fascism, Florida International University, Francis Xavier Luca, Frederic A. Sharf, Italy, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, Nazi propaganda, ocean liners, passenger ships, photography, postcards, rare books and special collections library, Steve Heller, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, war propaganda, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Zulus
Tags: 1910, 1935, 1937 Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques (Paris), Addis Abeba (Ethiopia), Adua (Ethiopia), Africa, Africans, Africans in art, Akbaba (Turkish periodical), Arthur Dupagne, Belgian Congo, Benito Mussolini, Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), Botswana, Brussels, Burkina Faso, calendars, Cameroon, Carl Weller, Children's propaganda books, collecting cards, Colonial expositions, Colonial tourism, colonialism, Colonies, Compagnie Belge Maritime du Congo, Congo, Cote d’Ivoire, Deutsche Afrika-Linien, Deutsche Ost-Afrika-Linie, diaries, displays, Dr. Francis Xavier Luca, Dr. Nicolae Harsanyi, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Exhibition buildings, games, Ghana, Guinea, Huts, Italian Empire, Italo-Ethiopian War (1895-1896), Italo-Ethiopian War (1935-1936), Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, journals, Kraft durch Freude (Strength through Joy), La Barre à Mine (Mining Bar), Lamy, Laurence Miller, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mandela Washington fellows, menus, Namibia, Nazis, Niger, Nigeria, ocean liners, pavilions, photograph albums, photographs, postcards, propaganda, Rwanda, S.S. Leopoldville, Samoliland, Scrapbooks, sculpture, Sketchbooks, South Africa, Steve Heller, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the United Republic of Tanzania, Union Castle Line, Woermann-Linie, Zambia, Zanxibar, Zulus
Fair Thee Well
• December 14, 2017 • Leave a CommentPosted in 3rd Afghan War, Afghanistan, airplanes, Art Basel, Balochistan, Baron Raimund von Stillfried, British Army, collectors, colonial propaganda, colonialism, displays, donations, Egypt, Far East, Felice Beato, Francis Xavier Luca, Frederic A. Sharf, gifts, Great Britain, Great Britain. Army. Kent Regiment., Japan, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, Kusakabe Kimbei, library donors, Northwest Frontier, Pakistan, Pashtuns, Photograph albums, photography, POWs, rare books and special collections library, Rochelle T. Pienn, Royal Airforce, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, War Photography, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, women
Tags: Afghanistan, Art Basel, Balochistan, Baron Raimund von Stillfried, biplanes, British Empire, Egypt, Egyptians, Far East, Felice Beato, Frederic A. Sharf, Great Britain, hand-watercolored photographs, India, Indian Cavalry (Lancers), indigenous peoples, Japan, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, Kent Regiment (British Army), Kusakabe Kimbei, leather bindings, Lieutenant J. D. Harding, Northwest Frontier, Pakistan, Pashtuns, photograph albums, Photography, Royal Air Force (Great Britain), women, Yokohama (Japan)
The Red Cross in Time of War
• August 22, 2017 • Leave a CommentPosted in American war propaganda, children's books, Children's propaganda books, CLara Helena Palacio Luca, donations, Ethiopia, First aid, First World War (1914-1918), Japanese Empire, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, library donors, memorabilia, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., postcards, posters, propaganda, propaganda arts, propaganda posters, Russo-Japanese War, South African War, Spanish Civil War, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, war propaganda, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, women, World War (1914-1918), World War (1939-1945), World War I, World War II, WWI, WWII
Tags: 1864, Adolphus Solomons, ambulances, American Red Cross, atrocities, August 22, Broadsides, Clara Barton, Edith Cavell, emblems, ephemera, Frederic A. Sharf, Geneva convention, Hospitals, International Red Cross, Italo-Ethiopian War (1935-1936), Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, Jean-Henri Dunant, Judith Berson-Levinson Collection, Ladysmith (South Africa), mechanical works, medical personnel, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., Nobel Peace Prize, Nurses, nurses and nursing, Pamela K. Harer, Periodicals, photograph albums, postcards, posters, Red Cross, Red Cross dogs, Red Cross nurses, Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905), Second Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902), Sheet music covers, South African War (1899-1902), Swiss flag, tents, Woodrow Wilson
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
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
