Reflections on the Passing of Fidel Castro and the U.S.-Cuba Relationship by Wolfsonian–FIU Chief Librarian Francis Luca
• December 1, 2016 • 1 CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, acquisitions, bars, Communism, Cuba, dance, FIU, FIU community, Florida International University, Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, History Department, hotels, library donors, museums, persuasive arts, photography, promotional materials, propaganda, rare books and special collections library, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: 1950s, 25th of July Movement, Affair in Havana (film : 1957), Afro-Cuban jazz, American celebrities, American tourists in Cuba, Bar La Florida (Havana), Bay of Pigs invasion, Cabarets, Casino de Capri, Casinos, cha cha cha, Chano Pozo, Che! (film : 1969), Clara Helena Palacio Luca, Coca-cola, Cocktail Time in Cuba, Conrado W. Massaguer, Cuba, Cuba (film : 1979), Cuban exiles, Cuban Missile Crisis, Cuban musicians, Cuban Rebel Girls (film : 1959), dictators, Dizzy Gillespie, Ed Sullivan, Errol Flynn, Escape from Hell Island (film : 1964), Ferries, Fidel Castro, Francis Xavier Luca, Fulgencio Batista, Gran Casino Nacional de Habana, Granma, Guys and Dolls (film : 1955), Habana Libre (hotel), Havana (Cuba), Havana Hilton, Havana Widows (film : 1933), honeymooners, Jose Marti, Key West (Florida), La Bodeguita del Medio (restaurant : Havana), Liberace, mambo, Moncada barracks (Santiago de Cuba), Nightclubs, Pier Five Havana (film : 1959), President Obama, Prohibition, promised gifts, Raul Castro, Rita Hayworth, roulette, rum, rumba, Rumba (film : 1935), showgirls, Sloppy Joe's Bar (Havana), strippers, striptease, Tampa (Florida), tourists, Tropicana (Nightclub), United States, Vicki Gold Levi, Vicki Gold Levi Collection, We Shall Return (film : 1963), Wolfsonian Chief Librarian, Woolworths department store, Ybor City (Florida)
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
POTTY HUMOR FROM THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY COLLECTION IN HONOR OF WORLD TOILET DAY
• November 19, 2013 • 2 CommentsPosted in American war propaganda, Anti-Nazi propaganda, donations, gifts, Leonard A. Lauder, library donors, memorabilia, persuasive arts, postcards, propaganda, propaganda arts, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, war propaganda, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War I, World War II, World's fairs, WWI, WWII
Tags: A Century of Progress International Exposition (1933-1934: Chicago Ill), Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), Advertisements, American pictorial wit, Axis leaders, Bathrooms, Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), Bernhardt Wall (1872-1956), Brochures, caricatures, CLara Helena Palacio-de Luca, Flush toilets, Francis Xavier Luca, Hideki Tōjō (1884–1948), Indoor plumbing, Jeffrey G. Fischer, Latrines, Leonard A. Lauder, manufacturers' catalogs, Michael Smith, Military life, Novelty works, Outhouses, Photomontage, promised gifts, public toilets, Sewers, Toilet paper, toilets, Uncle Sam, United Nations, Urinals, vintage postcards, Water closets, World Toilet Day
WOLFSONIAN TALK, WORKSHOP, AND TEEN COMIC CRITIQUE WITH DENNIS CALERO
• April 26, 2013 • 1 CommentPosted in 1930s, acquisitions, Adolf Hitler caricatures, American left artists, American war propaganda, Anti-Nazi propaganda, Artists, book art, collectors, Communism, Communists, documentaries, donations, Fascism, FDR, FIU, FIU community, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, Great Depression, Japan, Japanese Empire, leftist artists, library donors, Lynd Ward (1905-1985), Mitchell Wolfson, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, persuasive arts, political art, Popular Front, propaganda, propaganda arts, rare books and special collections library, student curators, Student exhibit, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, war propaganda, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War II, WWII
Tags: Allies, Axis, Back to Work: FDR and Labor's New Deal (Exhibit), Batman, Cartoonists, cartoons, Chiang Kai Shek (1887–1975), Clara Helena Palacio Luca, Comic books, Comic Kraze, comics, Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), Dark Horse Comics, DC Comics, Dennis Calero, Digital art, Film noir, FIU Professor Bernadine Heller-Greenman, Francis Xavier Luca, German Expressionism, Giacomo Patri (1898-1978), God's Man: A Novel In Woodcuts, graphic novels, Hans Alexander Mueller, Harry Bridges (1901-1990), Harry Ward (1873–1966), Hideki Tōjō (1884–1948), labor leaders, labor un, Longshoremen’s Strike (1936-1937), Marvel Comics, New World School of the Arts, O Brother Man: The Art and Life of Lynd Ward, Patriotism, Photoshop, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), Prime Minister Winston Churchill, promised gifts, Pulbic talks, Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles, Silent film, Socialists, Steven King's The Little Green God of Agony, strikes, Superman, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (film: 1920), The Communist Manifesto in pictures, unions, War bonds, Web comics, West Coast Longshoremen, wood engravers, wood engraving, X-Men Noir
HISTORY REPEATS: COMMUNIST AND ANTI-COMMUNIST PROPAGANDA FROM THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY
• March 20, 2013 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, Communists, donations, gifts, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., persuasive arts, political art, propaganda, propaganda arts, rare books and special collections library, Soviet Union, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: Activists, Anti-communism, Belgium, Bolshevism, cartoons, Centre International de Lutte Active Contre le Communisme (CILACC), civil rights activists, Collectivisation, Communism, Democratic Republic of Korea, Famine, Florida International University graduates, gulags, Hammer and sickle, human rights activists, Joseph Stalin (1879-1953), Library Assistant Michel Potop, Michel Potop, Militarization, Moscow Show Trials, North Korea, promised gifts, Propaganda campaigns, rare periodicals, Red Army, Russia, Satire, South Korea, Soviet Union, totalitarian regimes, Ukraine famine, viral videos
THE CCC AS SEEN BY THE YOUNG ENROLLEES: A RECENT PROMISED GIFT TO THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY
• September 7, 2012 • 1 CommentPosted in accessioning, acquisitions, CCC, Civilian Conservation Corps, collectors, Digital Library Specialist, donations, FIU students, Florida International University students, forestry, gifts, Great Depression, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian Library volunteers, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, youth movements
Tags: CCC camps, drought, Dust Bowl, Emergency Conservation Work bill, flood control, forest fires, Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), Hyde Park (New York), Mitchell Wolfson Jr., Oregon, promised gifts, Roosevelt's "Tree Army", soil erosion, Temporary Emergency Relief Administration (TERA), Washington state, yearbooks
