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
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A TALE OF TWO TRAGEDIES: A WOLFSONIAN COMMEMORATION OF THE ILL-FATED VOYAGES OF THE TITANIC AND THE LUSITANIA
• April 10, 2012 • 1 CommentPosted in children's books, Cunard Line, donations, ocean liners, passenger ships, postcards, propaganda, propaganda arts, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, war propaganda, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War I, WWI
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