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
WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY OBJECT OF THE MONTH
• April 11, 2012 • Leave a CommentPosted in Cunard Line, ocean liners, oceanliners, propaganda, war propaganda, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War I, WWI
Tags: Cunard Line, David Almeida, Digital library specialist, Holland (Submarine), military technology, Naval war, Neutrals, R.M.S. Lusitania, R.M.S. Titanic, submarines, submersibles, torpedoes, U-Boats, unrestricted submarine warfare, Unterseebootes
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
Tags: Disasters at sea, drowning victims, Harry Percival Riley, Icebergs, Louis Raemaekers (1869-1956), memorial works, poetry, poets, public funerals, R.M.S. Lusitania, R.M.S. Titanic, Richard Preston Prichard, submarine warfare, submarines, Titanic (film), U-Boats, Unterseebootes
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