Blog Archives
Tuned In: RadioFest at The Wolfsonian
• March 17, 2017 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, airplanes, American war propaganda, Anti-Nazi propaganda, book art, children's books, Children's propaganda books, CLara Helena Palacio Luca, displays, donations, FDR, Florida International University, Four Freedoms speech (1941), Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, Great Britain, Great Depression, Italy, library donors, Mediterranean Sea, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, Nazi propaganda, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, Occupied France, persuasive arts, political art, postcards, posters, rare books and special collections library, Second World War (1939-1945), Spanish Civil War, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, totalitarian, Vintage postcards, war propaganda, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War (1939-1945), World War II, WWII
Tags: Adolf Hitler, Advertisements, “Back of the Mike” (film short 1938), Benito Mussolini, Brochures, caricatures, cartoons, Eleanor Roosevelt, Fascism, Father Charles Coughlin, Federal Music Project (FMP), fireside chats, Four Freedoms speech, Francis Xavier Luca, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harvey Mattel, Herbert Hoover, Joseph Goebbels, microphones, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., Moonlighter Makerspace, Nazism, New Deal, People’s Receivers, postcards, posters, propaganda, Public radio, Radio, Radio London, Radio tower transmitters, RadioFest, radios, Red Scare, Second World War, Sound recordings, The New Tropic, VoxPop, Winston Churchill, WLRN, Wolfson Archives, Works Progress Administration (WPA), World War (1839-1945), WWII
BEAUTY AND THE BEACH: WOMEN’S BATHING SUITS AND THE PROMOTION OF MIAMI BEACH
• May 6, 2015 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, donations, fashion, fashion for women, gender, Great Depression, health, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, Norman Bel Geddes, photography, postcards, rare books and special collections library, Second World War (1939-1945), swimwear, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Vintage postcards, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, women, World War (1939-1945), World War II, WWII
Tags: 1920s, Annette Kellerman, Army Air Forces, bathing attire, bathing beaches, Bathing suits, bathinghouses, beaches, Beauty pageants, Bettie Page, bikinis, Brigitte Bardot (actress), Brochures, Bunny Yeager, Carl G. Fisher (1874-1939), Casinos, City of Miami Beach News Bureau, Clara Helena Palacio Luca, Copa City Nightclub (Miami Beach Fla.), Diane Varga, Dolores Kirby, Donna Victor, Flamingo Hotel (Miami Beach Fla.), Francis Xavier Luca, greyhounds, Hardie Casino, Jane Fisher, Lanita Kent, Lawrence Wiggins, Louis Reard, Mel Victor, Miami Beach, Miami Beach (Fla.), Miami Beach City Hall, Miami Beach fiftieth anniversary celebrations, Miami Beach Historical Archive, Miami Beach Kennel Club, Miss Miami Beach Golden Girl Pageant, Miss Universe Beauty Pageant, Norma Eve Sherer, Norman Bel Geddes, postcards, promotional literature, Roney Plaza Hotel, Second World War (1939-1945), Shelly Macy Sharpe, Smith's Casino, Sun-Ray Sanitarium (Miami Fla.), Swimsuits, Thermometers, winter resorts, women, WWII
THE “GREAT WAR” AND ITS SEQUEL: WWI WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY EXHIBIT TO CLOSE, WWII EXHIBIT TO OPEN
• March 13, 2015 • Leave a CommentPosted in donations, gifts, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., Pamela K. Harer, photography, postcards, propaganda, rare books and special collections library, Second World War (1939-1945), student curators, Student exhibit, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Veterans Day, War Photography, war propaganda, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War (1914-1918), World War (1939-1945), World War I, World War II, WWI, WWII
Tags: alphabet books, American eagle, Army barracks, At Ease: Miami Beach During the Second World War (Wolfsonian library exhibit), atlases, bathing beaches, beaches, Bernhardt Wall (1872-1956), caricatures, coloring books, Cossacks, Dachshunds, dogs, Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog, Exhibition openings, games, geese, Geishas, German Kaiser Wilhelm II (1859-1941), H. Lawrence Wiggins III, Hotels, Humpty Dumpty, John Bull, Judith Berson-Levinson Collection, liberty cabbage, Liberty Loans, marching, Marianne, Miami Beach Centennial, Miami Beach Centennial celebration, military drill, military exercises, military parade, Mother Goose, Natalie Vera, nursery rhyme books, Nursery Rhymes for Fighting Times, Pamphlets, parodies, pickelhaube helmets, postcards, Puzzles, Sand in their Boots (event), satires, sauerkraut, servicemen, sheet music, souvenir view books, Stephen Castellanos, syllabification books, The Children's Crusade (Wolfsonian library exhibit), the Great War, Todd Jolly, tourists, U.S. Army Air Forces, Uncle Sam, Veterans Day
ART BASEL AND OCEAN LINER AFICIONADO TOURS OF THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY AND A GLIMPSE INTO THE FUTURE
• December 13, 2013 • 1 CommentPosted in book art, collectors, colonial propaganda, colonialism, Communism, Communists, Constructivism, cruise ships, displays, donations, Dr. Laurence Miller, Dutch Art Nouveau, Ethiopia, Far East, Fascism, Futurism, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, Great Britain, Hamburg-American Line, international expositions, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, John Heartfield (1891-1968), Laurence Miller Collection, leftist artists, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, Nazi propaganda, Nazism, Nieuwe Kunst, ocean liners, oceanliners, passenger ships, persuasive arts, Photograph albums, photography, pochoirs, political art, postcards, posters, promotional materials, propaganda, propaganda arts, propaganda posters, rare books and special collections library, Russia, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, totalitarian, VIP vistors, war propaganda, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War I, World's fairs, WWI
Tags: Anti-Communist Propaganda, anti-Fascist propaganda, anti-Nazi propaganda, Arbeiter-Illustrierte Zeitung (periodical), Art Basel, Art Nouveau, Asama Maru (steamship), Battleship Potemkin (film : 1925), Blaise Cendrars (1887-1961), calendars, Chatsworth House, Chemical warfare, Christopher Kyte, cruise line industry, Crystal Palace Exhibition (1851 : London), Cunard, Dan Lotten, designers, Duilio (steamship), Empire Welland (troopship), family photographs, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (1876-1944), First World War, Fortunato Depero (1892-1960), Gas masks, George G. Sharp, German design reform, Giulio Cesare (steamship), graphic art, Grim Reaper, Hamburg-Amerika Linie, Hibiya Shrine (Japan), Hyde Park (London), Illumination, Italian Futurism, Japan, Jeff Maklin, Jim Lida, John Heartfield (1891-1968), La Prose du Transsibérien et de La Petite Jehanne de France, library visitors, Maritime artists, Museum buildings, Naval architects, Nieuwe Kunst, Normandie (Steamship), NYK Line, ocean liner aficionados, ocean liners, Odessa Steps, Owen Jones (1809-1874), Patria (3) (steamship), photograph albums, Photomontage, postage stamps, postcards, promised gifts, propaganda, Raoul Cenisi (1912-1991), robots, Rossia (steamship), Russian Constructivism, S.S. Nieuw Amsterdam (steamship), Saturnia, Saturnia (steamship), Sergei Eisenstein (1898-1948), Sharf Associate Librarian Rochelle Pienn, shoes, Sir Joseph Paxton (1803-1865), Skeletons, Sonia Delaunay (1885-1979), Stanley Haviland, Stephen Card, Theatre costume design, Theodoor Willem Nieuwenhuis (1866-1951), Thomas Cassidy, Tullio Crali (1910-2000), Victorian England, vultures, watercolors, Weddings, WWI
THE PERSUASIVE POWER OF PROPAGANDA: MIAMI AD SCHOOL STUDENTS AT THE WOLFSONIAN
• September 6, 2013 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, Adolf Hitler caricatures, donations, Fascism, graphic arts, graphic designers, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, Nazi propaganda, Nazism, persuasive arts, political art, portfolios, postcards, posters, promotional materials, propaganda, propaganda arts, propaganda posters, rare books and special collections library, school visits to The Wolfsonian, Steve Heller, stickers, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, visual thinking strategies, VTS, war propaganda, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War II, WWII
Tags: Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), Adolf Hitler caricatures, advertising, Antonio Arias Bernal (1914-1960), commercial art, Donald Duck, Joseph Goebbels (1897-1945), leaflets, manipulation, Martijn F. Le Coutre, Miami Ad School, Monika Pobog-Malinowska, Nazis, persuasion, postcards, posters, print media, propaganda, Sheet music covers, Steve Heller, Viktor Nikolaevich Deni (1893-1946), war propaganda
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, NELSON MANDELA! CELEBRATING WITH SOME SOUTH AFRICA ARTIFACTS FROM THE WOLFSONIAN COLLECTION
• July 18, 2013 • 2 CommentsPosted in 1899-1902, Boers, book art, British Army, colonial propaganda, colonialism, cruise ships, donations, Dr. Laurence Miller, Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, Laurence Miller Collection, library donors, museums, ocean liners, passenger ships, Photograph albums, political art, postcards, posters, promotional materials, propaganda, propaganda arts, racism, rare books and special collections library, South African War, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Vintage postcards, war propaganda, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, world cruises
Tags: Anti-Aparthied activists, Apartheid, Billy Bragg's "Chile Your Waters Run Red Through Soweto" (song), Cry Freedom (film : 1987), ephemera, First Anglo-Boer War (1880-1881), Free Nelson Mandela (song), Ideal Gladestone, Invictus (2009), John Gladstone, Matt Damon, Morgan Freeman, Nelson Mandela (1918- ), ocean liners, Peter Gabriel's Biko, postcards, Promotional materials, Reconciliation, rugby, San Diego Historical Society, Second Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902), Sketchbooks, South Africa, South African War (1899-1902), Stephen Bantu Biko (1946-1977), Union Castle Line, Union Castle Mail Steamship Company
A VERY WOLFSONIAN MEDITERRANEAN VACATION
• June 23, 2013 • 1 CommentPosted in architects, architecture, Artists, cruise ships, displays, donations, Dr. Laurence Miller, Earthquakes, exhibitions, FIU, Florida International University, gifts, Green Library, Italy, Laurence Miller Collection, library donors, monumental architecture, museum architecture, museum conservation, museums, ocean liners, passenger ships, postcards, posters, preservation, propaganda, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, theatre, Vienna Secession, Wiener Werkstatte, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian Library volunteers, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: Acropolis Museum (Athens), Angiolo Mazzoni (1894-1979), Antonio Giuseppe Santagata (1888-1985), Assisi (Italy), Bell-towers, Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), Beth Dunlop, Bon Voyage (Wolfsonian library exhibit), cafes, Calabria, Catania (Sicily), Cathedrals, Chania (Crete), Churches, Civitavecchia, CLara Helena Palacio-de Luca, Classical ruins, classical statues, Dale Chihuly (1941- ), deck plans, discotheques, Dr. Laurence Miller, Duilio Cambellotti (1876-1960), Eastern Mediterranean, Egon Schiele (1890-1918), Ephesus, Francis Xavier Luca, frescoes, Greek ruins, Greek Theatres, Ideal Gladstone, Kuşadası (Turkey), La Casa Madre dell'Associazione Naz. Mulitati e Invalidi in Rome, Latina, Leonard A. Lauder, Littoria, Madonnina, Marcello Piacentini (1881-1960), Maya-inspired architecture, menus, Messina (Sicily), Messina Earthquake of 1908, Morris Lapidus (1902-2001), mosques, Mount Etna, Mt. Etna, Museo Duilio Cambellotti, Navigator of the Seas, Ostia Antica, Parthenon, Piraeus (Greece), Pontine marshes, Port of Piraeus, postcards, posters, Rex (steamship), Roman ruins, Rome, Royal Caribbean, San Diego Historical Society, spaghetti, Spires, stained glass, Syracusa, Taormina (Sicily), Thomas C. Ragan, tourism, tourist trade, tourist trinkets, Vatican, Vatican Museums, Venice, Vienna Secession, Vienna Workshop, Virgin Mary, volcanoes, White Star Line
A WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY HAPPY ANNIVERSARY SHOUT OUT TO THE TVA! To Vend at Auction?
• May 22, 2013 • 1 CommentPosted in 1930s, acquisitions, Christopher DeNoon, collectors, displays, donations, FDR, Federal Theatre Project (U.S.), FIU students, Florida International University students, FTP, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, Great Depression, international expositions, library donors, Living Newspaper, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, persuasive arts, political art, postcards, posters, promotional materials, propaganda, propaganda arts, propaganda posters, rare books and special collections library, theatre, Virtual library displays, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World's fairs
Tags: A Century of Progress Exhibition (1933-1934: Chicago), Christopher DeNoon, CLara Helena Palacio-de Luca, Commonwealth & Southern Corporation, Dams, Democrats, Electricity (bas relief), Elia Kazan (film director), ephemera, FDR, federal budgets, Federal Theatre Project, Francis Xavier Luca, FTP, George William Norris (1861-1944), Great Depression, Harry Hopkins (1890-1946), hydro-electric dams, Library of Congress, Living Newspaper, Mitchel Wolfson Jr., National Progressive Republican League, National Public Radio, NPR, postcards, posters, Power (Federal Theatre production), President Barack Obama, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, presidential candidates, private power utility companies, Progressive liberal Republicans, Progressive Party, public power utilities, REA, Republican Senator Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, Republicans, Rural Electrification Act, Supreme Court, Tennessee River Valley, Tennessee Valley Authority, Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919), TVA, Wendell Willkie (1892-1944), Wild River (1960)
CHILD SOLDIERS, CHEMICAL WEAPONS, AND WAR IN THE WOLFSONIAN-FIU COLLECTION
• May 9, 2013 • 1 CommentPosted in 1930s, colonial propaganda, colonialism, donations, Fascism, Italy, Mitchell Wolfson, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., persuasive arts, political art, postcards, propaganda, propaganda arts, racism, rare books and special collections library, Spanish Civil War, Steve Heller, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Vintage postcards, war propaganda, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War I, WWI
Tags: Abd-El-Krim, Abd-El-Krim (1882/3-1963), Aurelio Bertiglia, Battle of Annual (Morocco), Berbers, Chemical weapons, Child's Play, Children in war imagery, civilian casualties, crimes against humanity, Dámaso Berenguer, Delegación Nacional de Prensa y Propaganda de F.E.R. y de las J.O.N.S, East Africans, Ethiopia, Fabrica Nacional de Productos Quimicos plant (La Marañosa), Fascism, Flecha (periodical), Geneva convention, Geneva Protocol, guerrilla leaders, Hugo Stolzenberg, Italo-Ethiopian war, Italy, League of Nations, martyrs, Morocco, mustard gas, North Africans, Padre Reginaldo Guiliani (1887-1936), postcards, propaganda, rare periodicals, Rif rebellion, Second Italo-Abyssinian War (1935-1937), Spain, Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), Steve Heller, Syria, Treaty of Versailles
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, U. S. POSTAL SERVICE, FROM THE WOLFSONIAN-FIU LIBRARY
• February 20, 2013 • 2 CommentsPosted in 1930s, acquisitions, collectors, donations, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, Great Depression, library donors, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, NRA, postcards, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Vicki Gold Levi, Vintage postcards, war propaganda, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War II, WWII
Tags: American artists, Benjamin Franklin, Blue eagle (thunderbird) campaign, Cachets, Charles Turzak (1899-1986), CLara Helena Palacio-de Luca, Envelopes, First Day covers, Flags, Francis Xavier Luca, George Washington on stamps, Great Depression, Home front, Miss Liberty, muralists, National Recovery Administration (NRA), New Deal America, Philately, Phoenix (Mythical bird), Post Office, postcards, Postmarks, Postmaster General, President George Washington, President's Day, Stage coaches in art, stamp-collecting, stamps, Statue of Liberty National Monument, U.S. Postal Service, V-J Day (1945), Victory Gold Levi Collection, Victory sign, Woodcuts
