Clear the Tables! French, Cuban, Native American, and Bakehouse Appetizers
• May 22, 2018 • Leave a CommentPosted in archives, Art Deco, book art, CCC, Christopher DeNoon, Civilian Conservation Corps, CLara Helena Palacio Luca, collectors, colonial propaganda, colonialism, Cuba, curators, decorative arts, displays, donations, Dutch Art Nouveau, FDR, Federal One, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, forestry, Francis Xavier Luca, gender, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, health, library donors, Lynd Ward (1905-1985), memorabilia, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, portfolios, postcards, promotional materials, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Vicki Gold Levi, Vintage postcards, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, women, World War (1914-1918), World War I, WWI
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Return of the Natives
• October 12, 2017 • 1 CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, colonialism, curators, Dr. Nicolae Harsanyi, exhibit cases, Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian-FIU library exhibitions
Tags: Advertisements, American Indians, Blackfeet Indians, Christopher Columbus, colonials, Color lithography, commercial art, cultural appropriation, Empire route, Eric Simon, Everglades National Park, Exoticism, feather headresses, Francis Xavier Luca, Glacier National Park, Grand Canyon National Park, Great Northern Railroad, Great Nothern Railway, Hopi Indians, Indians, indigenous peoples, Jamestown Exposition (1907), National Parks, Native Americans, Native Americans America the Beautiful: American Indians and the Promotion of National Parks (Wolfsonian library installation), native peoples, Navajo Indians, Oglala Sioux, Ojibwa, Peace pipes, Pocahontas, product advertising, Pueblo Indians, Railroads, Red Cloud (1822-1909), Red Cloud Stogies, Santa Fe Line, Schlegel Litho., Scotten Dillon (Detroit MI), Selling the Golden Leaf: Exoticism in Tobacco Advertising (Wolfsonian library installation), Seminole Indians, smoking, Temple Beth Am Day School, Tobacco, tobacco advertising, tobacco products, Treaty of Fort Laramie (1869), Woodland Indians, World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago)
A Farewell to Arms and Welcome to “Railroaded” Indians
• July 12, 2017 • 1 CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, Artists, donations, Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, persuasive arts, promotional materials, rare books and special collections library, trains, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian-FIU library exhibitions
Tags: America the Beautiful: American Indians and the Promotion of National Parks (Wolfsonian library installation), American Indians, Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad, Blackfeet Indians, calendars, California Limited, Charles L. Marshall Jr., corn dance ceremony, decoration, Empire route, feather headresses, femme fatales, Francis Luca, Glacier National Park, Great Northern Railway, Hopi Indians, In the Shadows: American Pulp Cover Art (Wolfsonian library installation), Indians, indigenous peoples, Kachina dolls, Louis W. Hill, Mitchell Wolfson Sr. Foundation, mosaics, murals, National Parks, Native Americans, native peoples, Navajos, ornament, ornamental metal sculpture, Paul Cret, Pikuni and Kainah Blackfeet Indians, playing cards, portfolio plates, portraits, promotional literature, Pueblo Indians, railroad executives, Railroads, redheads, Richard L. Tooke, Santa Fe (New Mexico), Santa Fe Line, See America campaign, Union Terminal Station (Cincinnati Ohio), Vicki Gold Levi, William Penhallow Henderson, Winold Reiss (1886-1953)
A Wolfsonian Happy Birthday Tribute to Yellowstone National Park
• March 1, 2017 • Leave a CommentPosted in Artists, Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, photography, promotional materials, rare books and special collections library, trains, Uncategorized, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: 1871 Yellowstone expedition, Charles Marshall Jr., color lithographic prints, Colter's Hell, Detroit Photographic Company, domestic tourism, Francis Xavier Luca, fur trappers, geysers, Howard Gottlieb, John Colter, mountain men, National Parks, Native Americans, Photochroms, President Ulysses S. Grant, Railroads, souvenir folders, souvenir viewbooks, The Yellowstone Act of 1872, Thomas Moran, tourism, travel, William Henry Jackson (1843-1942), Yellowstone National Park
BEYOND THE RAILS BUT NOT OFF-TRACK: THE MITCHELL WOLFSON STUDY CENTRE RAILROAD EXHIBIT AND WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY TRAIN MATERIALS
• April 1, 2014 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, children's books, collectors, displays, donations, Dr. Nicolae Harsanyi, exhibitions, gifts, graphic designers, Great Depression, high speed trains, Japanese Empire, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, library donors, Miami Dade College, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., promotional materials, rare books and special collections library, Russo-Japanese War, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World's fairs
Tags: "riding the rails", 1904-1905, A Century of Progress International Exposition (1933-1934: Chicago, aerodynamics, and Society (Exhibition: MDC Museum of Art & Design), Beyond the Rails: Notes on Trains, Bill Iverson, Blackfeet Indians, calendars, Charles L. Marshall Jr., Children's books, Cloth books, Damarys Alvarez, Dayana Gonzalez, Ettore Bugatti (1881-1947), Fire-breathing dragons, Freedom Tower, From Italy to the Americas: Italo Balbo's Seaplane Squadrons (Wolfsonian library exhibition), Gabriella Perez, Garman Ranck, Giants Lighter Than Air (Wolfsonian library exhibit), Glacier National Park, Henry Dreyfuss (1904-1972), hobos, Ill.), Indians in commercial art, Industrial designers, Irina Slizskaya, Isthmus of Panama, Javier Gonzalez, Lea Nickless, Lisa Sole Williams, locomotives, London Midland and Scottish Railway Company, Louisiana Purchase International Exposition (1904 : St Louis), Melissa Diaz, Melvin M. Hunt Jr., Michael Rosario, Mitchell Wolfson Jr. Sudy Centre, Mo), New York World's Fair (1939-1940), Olga Garcia Mayoral, Panama Canal, progress, Quaker Oats Company, Rafael Rodriguez, Railroads, Raymond Loewy (1893-1986), Richard L. Tooke, Russo-Japanese War, Saalfield Muslin books, Sharf Associate Librarian Rochelle Pienn, Stephanie Hadad, Streamlined locomotives, Trains, transcontinental railroads, travel, Winold Reiss (1886-1953), World’s Columbian Exposition (Chicago: 1893), Yanai Nassar