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
The G.I. and Democracy
• November 9, 2017 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, Adolf Hitler caricatures, American war propaganda, Anti-Nazi propaganda, Armistice Day, Fascism, FDR, First World War (1914-1918), Francis Xavier Luca, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., Nazi propaganda, Nazism, New Deal era, persuasive arts, Philippines, propaganda, propaganda arts, rare books and special collections library, Second World War (1939-1945), veterans, Veterans Day, war propaganda, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War (1914-1918), World War (1939-1945), World War I, World War II, WWI, WWII
Tags: "Australia: our neighbor 'down under'", "Can war marriages be made to work?", "Can we prevent future wars?", "Is the Good Neighbor Policy a success?", "Our Russian ally", "Shall I build a house after the war?", "The Balkans", "What is propaganda?", "What lies ahead for the Philippines?", "What should be done with war criminals?", "What will your town be like?", "Will the French Republic live again?", "Will there be work for all?", All Quiet on the Western Front (film : 1930), America First Committee, appeasement, Arsenal of Democracy, automatons, cartoons, Charles Lindbergh, democracy, Donald Duck, F. Karr, Fascists, G.I. Bill, G.I. roundtable discussions, G.I.s, Heroes for Sale (film : 1933), interventionism, isolationism, Joseph Kennedy, League of Nations, Lend-Lease Bill, merchants of death, Nazis, Neutrality Act legislation, Pamphlets, Pearl Harbor, persuasion, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), President Woodrow Wilson, Senate Special Committee on Investigation of the Munitions Industry, Senator Gerald Nye, Serviceman's Readjustment Act, The Negro Soldier (film : 1944), Veterans Day, War is a Racket / Major General Smedley D. Butler, war profiteers, Why We Fight (film)
UNHAPPY ANNIVERSARY, RMS LUSITANIA: SOME WOLFSONIAN REFLECTIONS ONE HUNDRED YEARS (AND ONE DAY) LATER
• May 8, 2015 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1915, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: atrocities, cartoons, civilian casualties, contraband, Cruiser Rules, Cunard, Dachshunds, devils, drowning, Elbert Hubbard, German sympathizers, Hamburg-Amerika Linie, Ireland, Isador and Ida Straus, John Bull, Kaiser Wilhelm II, King Herod, Liverpool, Louis Raemaekers (1869-1956), Mauritania, Mexican intervention 1914, military preparedness, Miss Liberty, moustaches, Norddeutscher Lloyd, ocean liners, passengerships, peace at any price, pickelhaube helmets, pirates, President Woodrow Wilson, propaganda, Richard Preston Prichard, RMS Lusitania, Satan, scarecrows, Sealions, Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan, steamships, strawmen, strict neutrality, submarines, Thomas C. Ragan, torpedoes, U-20, U-Boats, Uncle Sam, unrestricted submarine warfare, white feathers, World War (1914-1918), WWI
WOMEN AND THE FIRST WORLD WAR: SOME ARTIFACTS FROM THE WOLFSONIAN-FIU LIBRARY COLLECTION
• October 3, 2014 • 1 CommentPosted in acquisitions, American war propaganda, Children's propaganda books, displays, donations, exhibitions, fashion, fashion for women, FIU, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, France, gender, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, History Department, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, passenger ships, persuasive arts, political art, postcards, posters, propaganda, propaganda arts, propaganda posters, rape imagery, rare books and special collections library, school visits to The Wolfsonian, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Vintage postcards, war propaganda, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, women, World War I, WWI
Tags: "jumping jack" (paper puppets), "pin-up" art, AEF (American Expeditionary Force), African-American soldiers, American military uniforms, anti-interventionist propaganda, anti-war propaganda, Broadsides, castration anxiety, Celia Malone Kingsbury’s For Home and Country: World War I Propaganda on the Home Front, coach drivers, Doughboys, emasculation fears, femininity, feminists, French women, gender issues, Gender roles, La Tradotta, Louis Raemaekers (1869-1956), love, Lusitania (Steamship), magazine cover art, manliness, mothers and sons, mothers of soldiers, munitions factories, Musical scores, Myth and Machine: The First World War in Visual Culture (Wolfsonian exhibition), Navy recruitment, Neutrality, nurses and nursing, pacifism, porters, portfolios, postmen, President Woodrow Wilson, R.M.S. Lusitania, recruiting posters, Red Cross nurses, romance, Sailor suits, Service flags, Sheet music covers, shell factories, street sweepers, Sweethearts, The Delineator (magazine), the Great War (1914-1918), Thomas C. Ragan, trolley conductors, U-Boat attacks, Umberto Brunelleschi (1879-1949), War & Society: The First World War (FIU History class), War brides, war work, Wilson's "Too proud to fight" speech (May 1915), Woman's Suffrage Movement, women, women and children, women barbers, women's war work, World War (1914-1918)
GENDERED PROPAGANDA AND AMERICAN REACTIONS TO THE GREAT WAR: SHEET MUSIC COVERS FROM THE WOLFSONIAN-FIU LIBRARY
• August 2, 2014 • Leave a CommentPosted in rape imagery, rare books and special collections library, romance, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War I, WWI
Tags: Austro-Hungarian Empire, Belgium, cartoons, Centennial of the outbreak of the First World War, communication, Doughboys, gender issues, German Kaiser Wilhelm II (1859-1941), Louis Raemaekers (1869-1956), love, Mobilization for war, mothers and sons, music, Neutrality, Popular culture, President Woodrow Wilson, propaganda, romance, Schlieffen plan, Serbia, Sheet music covers, songs, the "rape of Belgium", transatlantic cables, Uniforms, war
SOME PROPAGANDA POSTERS IN THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY
• February 7, 2014 • 1 CommentPosted in donations, gifts, Leonard A. Lauder, library donors, political art, posters, propaganda, propaganda posters, rape imagery, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, war propaganda, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, women, World War I, World War II, WWI, WWII
Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), Adolf Hitler caricatures, African Americans in the military, Czechoslovakia, Dr. Nicolae Harsanyi, George Washington, Leonard A. Lauder, Lidice, Lidice massacre (Czechoslovakia), President Woodrow Wilson, propaganda, recruiting posters, Reinhold Heydrich, Symbols, The Wolfsonian-FIU, War bonds, women in the work force, World War I, World War II
L’ ARMISTICE: MORE THAN A DAY OFF FROM WORK
• November 11, 2013 • Leave a CommentPosted in Armistice Day, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, veterans, Veterans Day, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War I, WWI
Tags: 1918, Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), Arc de Triomphe, Armistice Day, Austro-Hungarian Emperor Francis Joseph I (1830-1916), Austro-Hungarian Empire, Censorship, Compiegne (France), Court martials, Ferdinand Foch (1851-1929), Francis Xavier Luca, French President Francois Hollande, Great Depression, Hall of Mirrors (Versailles), Irving Marantz, Kaiser Wilhelm II (Emperor of Germany), Kirk Douglas (actor: 1916-), Library Assistant Michel Potop, Louis Raemaekers (1869-1956), Military executions, Museums, November 11, Paths of Glory (film : 1957), Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, President Woodrow Wilson, R.M.S. Lusitania, Railway cars, Remembrance Day, Shell-shock, Soldiers, Stanley Kubrick (director : 1928-1999), Surrenders, the Great War (1914-1918), Treaty of Versailles, Trench warfare, Uniforms, Versailles, Veteran's Day, veterans, War casualties, War memorials
HAPPY 97TH BIRTHDAY, NATIONAL PARK SERVICE, FROM THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY
• August 24, 2013 • 3 CommentsPosted in 1930s, Artists, book art, FAP, Federal One, forestry, graphic arts, graphic designers, Great Depression, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, portfolios, posters, preservation, promotional materials, propaganda arts, propaganda posters, rare books and special collections library, silk screen, trains, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: "See America First" campaign, Alice Moore Hubbard (1861-1915), American Indian portraits, Arts & Crafts movement, Benjamin Abromowitz (1917-2011), Blackfeet Indians, Buffalo nickel, Conservationists, Deer, Dorothy Waugh, Dust Bowl, dust storms, Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915), Empire Builder, Environmental movement, Everglades National Park, Exodusters, Federal Arts Project (FAP), Frederick Law Olmsed Jr, George Biddle (1885-1973), Glacier National Park, Great Northern Railway, Great Plains, Harold E. Keeler (1905-1968), Harry Herzog, John Muir, John R. Wagner, National Park Service, National Park Service Organic Act, Native Americans in art, New York City Art Project, North American Indians in art, posters, Preservationists, President Woodrow Wilson, R.M.S. Lusitania, Sierra Club, Silkscreened posters, the "Dirty Thirties", the Roycrofters, the West, Waterfalls, Winold Reiss (1886-1953), Work Projects Administration (WPA), Works on Paper Dept., Works Progress Administration (WPA), Yellowstone National Park, Yosemite National Park
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