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)
All Aboard! Recent Visit to The Wolfsonian by the SSHSA Board Members
• February 1, 2017 • 1 CommentPosted in Art Deco, cataloging, collectors, cruise ships, Cunard Line, decorative arts, displays, donations, Florida International University students, Francis Xavier Luca, Frederic A. Sharf, gifts, graphic arts, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, Laurence Miller Collection, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, ocean liners, oceanliners, promotional materials, rare books and special collections library, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, world cruises
Tags: Ada Peacock, Black Sea Steamship Company, Bremen (Steamship), Brochures, Canadian Pacific Line, Carnival Cruise Line, Colonial tourism, Compagnie Generale Transatlantique, Conte Grande (steamship), Crystal Garcia, Cunard Line, deck plans, Dunnottar Castle (steamship), Europa, Felix Roussel (steamship), Franconia (steamship), Fred Sharf, French Line, Good Neighbor Fleet, Great Lakes, H.M.S. Imperieuse, H.M.S. Sultan, H.M.S. Superb, Ile de France (steamship), Incres Line, Jean Dunand, John Henry, Laurence Miller, Liberte (steamship), logbooks, M.S. Victoria (steamship), menus, Messageries Maritimes, Moore-McCormack Lines, Norddeutsheler Lloyd Bremen (North German Lloyd), Normandie (Steamship), ocean liner aficionados, ocean liners, Pacific Line, Promotional materials, R.M.S. Alcantara (steamship), R.M.S. Edinburgh Castle, R.M.S. Pretoria Castle (steamship), Red Star Line, Reina del Pacifico (steamship), Round the World cruises, Royal Mail Lines, S. S. Belgenland (Steamship), S.A. Oranje (steamship), S.S. Argentina (steamhsip), Safmarine, SSHSA, St. Lawrence River Valley, Steamship Historical Society of America, steamships, Thomas Ragan, travel, Tropicale (cruiseship), Union Castle Line
The Scuttlebutt about a Scuttled Ship: Visit by Colombian-born Author to the Wolfsonian Library
• September 24, 2016 • Leave a CommentPosted in First World War (1914-1918), Frederic A. Sharf, ocean liners, passenger ships, World War I, WWI
Tags: Alvaro Mendoza Arango, art deco interiors, Barranquilla (Colombia), Colombia, De la Gloria al Olvido (book), deck plans, Dr. Laurence Miller, Enrique Yidi Daccarett, Francis Xavier Luca, Hamburg-American Line, Hamburg-Amerika Linie, interior decoration of ships, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, Laurence Miller Collection, library donors, library visitors, Monarch of Bermuda (steamship), Prinz August Wilhelm (Steamship), Puerto Colombia, river steamers, scuttled ships, steamships, T.S. Ariadne (ship), USS Shipping Board
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
SOME MEDITERRANEAN EXOTICS AND SHIPS AS WAR REFUGEES: NEW ARRIVALS AT THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY
• December 16, 2014 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, ocean liners, World War (1914-1918), World War (1939-1945), World War I, World War II, WWI, WWII
Tags: Argentina (Ship), Barcelona, Brasil (Ship), Cabo de Buena Esperanza (Ship), Cabo de Hornos (Ship), Canadian Pacific, collaborators, D.C.), deck plans, Drottingholm (Ship), emigrants, Empress of Australia (Ship), Empress of France (Ship), Fascism, Francisco Franco (1892-1975), George Sharp, Gibbs & Cox, Greta Garbo (1905-1990), Gustavo Pulitzer Finali (1887-1967), Gydnia America Line, Holocaust Museum (Washington, Homeland (Ship), Immigration, Italian emigrants, Jews, La Compania Transatlantica, Neptunia, Neutrals, Oceania, Prisoner exchanges, Red Cross, Refugees, Reina Victoria Eugenia (Ship), Sobieski, South America, Spain, Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), steamships, submarines, Troopships, Virginian (Ship), war refugees, Ybarra Line
FULL STEAM AHEAD, or “LA VIDA ES UN CARNIVAL” [CRUISE]
• January 22, 2011 • Leave a CommentPosted in Laurence Miller Collection, ocean liners, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian library
Tags: Carnival, Carnival Corporation & plc, cruise line industry, Richard Brilliant, steamships
LIBRARIANS BOUYANT AS WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY IS AWASH IN OCEANS OF OCEAN LINER MATERIALS
• August 13, 2010 • 2 CommentsPosted in colonial tourism, gifts, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, Laurence Miller Collection, ocean liners, passenger ships, Wolfsonian library
Tags: Around the world cruises, Costa Line (Genoa), cruise line industry, cruising, deck plans, log books, menus, Norddeutscher Lloyd, O.S.K. Line, ocean travel, passenger ships, S.S. Federico C., steamships, The Love Boat (TV show)
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