Graphic Design Visitors: A Bird’s-Eye View
• March 29, 2022 • Leave a CommentPosted in airplanes, archives, Art Deco, Artists, avant-garde aesthetics, bindings, book art, children's books, Constructivism, Cuba, dance, exhibitions, FAP, Federal One, FIU, FIU community, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, Francis Xavier Luca, Futurism, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, Italian design, library donors, Miami Ad School, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, posters, rare books and special collections library, Russia, silk screen, skyscrapers, Soviet propaganda, Soviet Union, The Wolfsonian Library, typography, Vienna, Wiener Werkstatte, Wolfsonian staff, WPA
Tags: Aerial Vision (Wolfsonian exhibition), aeronautics, aeropittura, Afro-Cuban dance culture, airplanes, Albino Siviero Verossi, Alfredo Gauro Ambrosi, Art Deco, Art directors, aviation, Bas van Beek, bird's-eye views, Brittany Ballinger, Brochures, catalogs, Christopher Dresser, Constructivism, curators, designers, Federal Arts Project (FAP), font, Fortunato Depero, Francis Xavier Luca, Global Strategic Communication- Creative Track, graphic art, Italian Futurism, Karel Teige (1900-1951), Lea Nickless, Lobby cards, M.AD School of Ideas, Mac Harshberger (1900-1975), magazine cover art, Marlene Tosca Hunt, Mitchell Wolfson Jr. Collection, movie posters, Oscar Rieveling, Owen Jones, postcards, posters, Professor Albena Petrus Stoyanova, Promising Paradise: Cuban Allure--American Seduction (exhibition), Promising Paradise: Cuban Allure--American Seduction (Wolfsonian exhibition), Promotional materials, rack cards, Renato Di Bosso, Royal Academy in The Hague, Shameless (Wolfsonian exhibition), Sheet music covers, skyscrapers, transatlantic flights, Vicki Gold Levi Collection, Victorian art, Wiener Werkstätte (Vienna Workshops), WPA
A Tribute to the Red Cross and Heroic Nurses on the COVID-19 Front Lines
• April 7, 2020 • 3 CommentsPosted in American war propaganda, Artists, Disaster relief, First World War (1914-1918), FIU community, Florida International University, Francis Xavier Luca, gender, gifts, graphic arts, Italy, Lawrence Wiggins III, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., political art, postcards, posters, propaganda, propaganda posters, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian Library, war propaganda, Wolfsonian staff, women, World War (1914-1918), World War I, WWI
Tags: American Expeditionary Forces, American flag, army, civilian casualties, Columbia, corona, coronavirus, covid 19, face masks, Henry S. Hacker, Influenza Pandemic (1918), Jennie Mazzei Micela, Miami Beach, navy, Nurses, nurses and nursing, pandemics, postcards, posters, President Woodrow Wilson, public health, Red Cross nurses, Sheet music covers, Spanish flu epidemic, Vincenzo Mazzei
France’s Overseas Empire on Display
• November 27, 2019 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, architects, architecture, Art Deco, colonial propaganda, colonialism, displays, ethnohistory, exhibitions, FIU, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, Francis Xavier Luca, international expositions, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, political art, postcards, posters, propaganda, racism, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian Library, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian staff, World's fairs
Tags: Africa, Albert Laprade, Alfred Janniot, Anja Decker, Arthur Dupagne, bas relief, Belgian Congo, Colonial expositions, colonialism, Colonies, Dahomey, Exhibition buildings, Exposition Coloniale de Marseille (1922), Exposition coloniale internationale de Paris (1931), Exposition internationale des arts décoratifs et industriels modernes (1925 :Paris), Exposition Universelle (1900 : Paris), FIU Professor Maria Antonieta Garcia, France's overseas empire, Francophiles, French colonies, gender, human zoos, indigenous peoples, interracial couples, Jaussely, Madagascar, modernism, Musée Permanent des Colonies, native peoples, North Africa, nudes, Palais de la Porte Doree, pavilions, Petit Journal, postcards, posters, primitivism, sculpture, Senegal, Strange Couple (painting : 1934)
A Transatlantic Voyage to the “Ocean State”
• April 18, 2018 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, archives, Art Deco, collectors, cruise ships, curators, Francis Xavier Luca, graphic arts, library donors, memorabilia, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., models, museums, ocean liners, oceanliners, passenger ships, rare books and special collections library, Silvia Barisione, transatlantic voyages, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: archives, archivists, art deco interiors, bas relief, British Movietone, British Pathe, Cie. Cle. Transatlantique, Clarmont (steamboat), collectors, Compagnie Generale Transatlantique, conservators, curators, Don Leavitt, Frederick and Patricia Supper Foundation, French Line, fundrasiers, Grace Line, Hudson-Fulton Centennial Celebration, Jean Dunand, La Chasse [The Hunt], librarians, maiden voyages, Matthew Schulte, medalions, model ships, newsreels, Normandie (Steamship), North River Steamboat, ocean liner aficionados, ocean liners, posters, powerships, Providence (Rhode Island), radio personalities, Robert Fulton, Ship History Center, SS Normandie, SSHSA, Steamship Historical Society of America, steamships, Stephen Lash, Steve Donovan, Thomas C. Ragan, Warwick (Rhode Island)
Meet the Fokkers: KLM Founded This Day in History
• October 6, 2017 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, airplanes, colonial tourism, curators, exhibit cases, exhibitions, Far East, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, posters, rare books and special collections library, Silvia Barisione, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: aeronautics, air shows, Albert Plesman, aviation, Aviators, Batavia, Dutch East Indies, Eerste Luchtverkeer Tentoonstelling Amsterdam (ELTA), FIrst Aviation Exhibition Amsterdam (1919), Fokker aircraft, international travel, Jakarta, Java, Jerry Shaw, KLM, Koninklijke Luchtvaart Mastschappij (KLM), posters, Queen Wilhelmina, Royal Dutch Air Lines, Silvia Barisione, The Netherlands
New Deal Ephemera
• October 5, 2017 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, Alabama, American left artists, Blue eagle, CCC, Christopher DeNoon, Civil Rights Movement, Civilian Conservation Corps, Communism, Communist Party of the United States, Communist Party of the United States of America, Communists, displays, FIU, FIU community, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, Great Depression, History Department, Hugo Gellert, Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), International Labor Defense (ILD), leftist artists, Leonard A. Lauder, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, NRA, NYA, persuasive arts, racism, rare books and special collections library, Rural Electrification Administration (REA), stickers, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, visual thinking strategies, VTS, war propaganda, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, women, World War (1939-1945), World War II, WWII
Tags: 1936, Advertisements, aGatherin', Blue eagle (thunderbird) campaign, Broadsides, bulletins, calendars, campaign stickers, capitalism, Chain gangs, Christopher DeNoon, civil rights, Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), Clara Helena Palacio Luca, Communists, Comrade Gulliver, Diane de Blois, Display cards, electric chairs, ephemera, Ephemera Society of America, fans, FDR, Federal Music Project (FMP), Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), Gabriel Over the White House, Great Depression, Hurricane Irma, jobs, Junior Seminar, Kara Accettola, Leonard A. Lauder, Little Sages Books, lynchings, Lynton Gardiner, Martijn F. Lecoultre, Movie Makers (periodical), National Recovery Administration (NRA), National Youth Administration (NYA), Negro Songs of Protest (song book), New Deal, Pamphlets, pennants, Photomontage, portfolio plates, posters, Public Works Administration (PWA), racism, rare books, rare periodicals, Robert Dalton Harris, Rosie the Riveter, Rural Electrification Administration (REA), Scottsboro Boys, Scottsboro Trial (Alabama), Second World War, sharecropping, Sheet music covers, Socialists, song books, Sound recordings, Supreme Court rulings, Swastikas, Tamiami Trail, tanks (military science), The Christopher DeNoon Collection for the Study of New Deal Culture, voting patterns, Women war workers, work, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
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
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
BIG GAME HUNTING AND “WILD ANIMAL” SPECTACLES IN THE WOLFSONIAN MUSEUM COLLECTION
• July 31, 2015 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: Abbott and Costello, Africa Screams (film: 1949), Animals Are Like That (book: 1939), big game hunting, black maned lion, Botswana, Bring 'em Back Alive (book: 1930), Bring 'Em Back Alive (film: 1932), Cecil the lion, Century of Progress International Exposition (Chicago: 1933-1934), Clara Helena Palacio Luca, colonialism, dentists, Entertainment, Fang and Claw (book: 1935), Francis Xavier Luca, Frank Buck (1884-1950), Frank Buck's Jungle Camp, game preserves, George Lipscombe, International exhibitions, Jacare (film: 1942), Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, Joseph Marro, Jungle Camp, Jungle Cavalcade (film: 1941), King Juan Carlos of Spain, Kubwa Simba (children's book: 1941), Masai warriors, Midways, National Parks, New York World's Fair (1939-1940), On Jungle Trails (book: 1936), pith helmets, Poachers, poaching, posters, safaris, Tiger Fangs (film: 1943), trophy hunting, Walter Palmer, wild animal collectors, Wild Cargo (book: 1932), Wild Cargo (film: 1934), World's Fairs, WPA New Reading Materials Program, Zimbabwe, zoos
POSTERS, PICTOGRAPHS, PICTOGRAMS, AND PUBLIC HISTORY AT THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY
• October 17, 2014 • 1 CommentPosted in 1930s, acquisitions, archives, Artists, book art, cataloging, Christopher DeNoon, collectors, displays, donations, exhibitions, FDR, FIU, FIU community, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, Great Depression, History Department, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., Modesto Maidique campus, museums, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, posters, promotional materials, rare books and special collections library, Rural Electrification Administration (REA), student curators, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Virtual library displays, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian fellows, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War II, WWII
Tags: American-flag shipping, An Official Guide to the Army Air Forces, Booklets, Clara Helena Palacio Luca, Council of Women for Home Missions and Missionary Education Movement, Farm Security Administration (FSA), FIU Professor Ken Lipartito, Francis Xavier Luca, Frost Museum (Florida International University), Greenbelt Towns: A Demonstration in Suburban Planning, Guide for Members of REA Cooperatives, Henry A. Wallace (1888-1965), Lester Beall (1903-1969), Little Waters: A Study of Headwater Streams & Other Little Waters, Miami Beach Centennial celebration, Miami Beach City Hall Archive, Michael Golec, Migrants of the Crops, Pictograms, Pictographs, Pictorial graphics, pictorial statistics, posters, Public History, Resettlement Administration (RA), Robert T. Beall (REA economist), Rural Electrification Administration (REA), Sand in Their Boots, Sarah Rovang, shipbuilding, Statistically-Speaking (Wolfsonian library exhibit), statistics, The Christopher DeNoon Collection for the Study of New Deal Culture, Their Use and Relations to the Land, U.S. Army Air Force, U.S. Maritime Commission
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