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)
Cruising the French Caribbean aboard the S.S. Wolfsonian
• March 7, 2018 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, collectors, colonial tourism, cruise ships, Cunard Line, displays, donations, France, Francis Xavier Luca, French consulate, gifts, graphic arts, Laurence Miller Collection, library donors, memorabilia, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., ocean liners, persuasive arts, pochoirs, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: Alcoa Steamship Company, American Caribbean Line, Andrew and Roni Smulian Collection, Antilles, bas relief, Caribbean, Caribbean Cruise Lines, Children's books, Christiane Taubira (Cultural Ambassador, Christopher Columbus, Cie. Gle. Transatlantique, Clément Leclerc (French Consul General), Colonial expositions, coloring books, cruises, deck plans, Edouard Glissant (1928–2011), Elise Grace Holloway, Exhibition buildings, Exposition Coloniale Internationale (1931 : Paris), Exposition Universelle (1900 : Paris), France Florida Foundation for the Arts, French Embassy in the USA, French Guiana, French Line, fruit baskets, Grace Line, Great White Fleet, Guadalupe, Guyane, Hamburg-American Line, Holland-America Line, Home Lines, Ile de France (steamship), John Henry Collection, L'Atlantique (Steamship), Lloyd Sabaudo, M.S. Italia, Martinique, Moore & McCormack Co., Normandie (Steamship), Palm trees, Paris, passenger ships, pavilions, pirates, pochoir prints, Promotional materials, S.S. Reliance, S.S. Statendam, Thomas C. Ragan, Thomas C. Ragan Collection, tourism, Tout-Monde Festival (March 2018), Tout-Monde Festival), travel, Vanessa Selk, watercolors, West Indies
Amazing Grace
• February 15, 2018 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, collectors, donations, gifts, interns, library donors, memorabilia, museums, ocean liners, oceanliners, Panama Canal, passenger ships, promotional materials, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War (1939-1945), World War II, WWII
Tags: airlines, Ambrose (lightship), Brochures, cocktail stirrers, cruise lines, cruise ships, deck plans, Elise Grace Holloway, FIU History Graduate Student Researcher, Genevieve Rossin, glassware, Grace Line, Jones-White Act, luggage labels, matchcovers, menus, Pan-American Grace Airways, Panagra, Panama Canal, playing cards, porcelain, Promotional materials, Prudential Line, Santa Clara (Steamship), Santa Lucia (cargo ship), Santa Paula (cargo ship), Santa Rosa (cargo ship), silverware, Souvenirs, swizzle sticks, Thomas C. Ragan, Troopships, W. R. Grace & Company, William Grace Holloway III, World War (1939-1945)
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
WOMEN AND THE FIRST WORLD WAR: SOME ARTIFACTS FROM THE WOLFSONIAN-FIU LIBRARY COLLECTION
• October 3, 2014 • 1 CommentPosted in acquisitions, American war propaganda, Children's propaganda books, displays, donations, exhibitions, fashion, fashion for women, FIU, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, France, gender, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, History Department, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, passenger ships, persuasive arts, political art, postcards, posters, propaganda, propaganda arts, propaganda posters, rape imagery, rare books and special collections library, school visits to The Wolfsonian, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Vintage postcards, war propaganda, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, women, World War I, WWI
Tags: "jumping jack" (paper puppets), "pin-up" art, AEF (American Expeditionary Force), African-American soldiers, American military uniforms, anti-interventionist propaganda, anti-war propaganda, Broadsides, castration anxiety, Celia Malone Kingsbury’s For Home and Country: World War I Propaganda on the Home Front, coach drivers, Doughboys, emasculation fears, femininity, feminists, French women, gender issues, Gender roles, La Tradotta, Louis Raemaekers (1869-1956), love, Lusitania (Steamship), magazine cover art, manliness, mothers and sons, mothers of soldiers, munitions factories, Musical scores, Myth and Machine: The First World War in Visual Culture (Wolfsonian exhibition), Navy recruitment, Neutrality, nurses and nursing, pacifism, porters, portfolios, postmen, President Woodrow Wilson, R.M.S. Lusitania, recruiting posters, Red Cross nurses, romance, Sailor suits, Service flags, Sheet music covers, shell factories, street sweepers, Sweethearts, The Delineator (magazine), the Great War (1914-1918), Thomas C. Ragan, trolley conductors, U-Boat attacks, Umberto Brunelleschi (1879-1949), War & Society: The First World War (FIU History class), War brides, war work, Wilson's "Too proud to fight" speech (May 1915), Woman's Suffrage Movement, women, women and children, women barbers, women's war work, World War (1914-1918)
SOME RECENT ADDITIONS TO THE THOMAS RAGAN COLLECTION OF OCEAN LINER MATERIALS AT THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY
• September 26, 2014 • Leave a CommentPosted in donations, gifts, library donors, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: Athlone Castle (Steamship), Britannic (Steamship), Britannic II (Steamship), Carithia (Steamship), children’s books, collectors, Colonial tourism, cruise ships, G. J. Frans Naerebout ; Merchant Navy, Library Assistant Michel Potop, lighthouses, Lusitania (Steamship), Mauretania (Steamship), Normandie (Steamship), ocean liners, Olympic (Steamship), passenger ships, Promotional materials, Queen Mary (Steamship), Rangitoto (Steamship), schooners, sticker books, Strathnaver (Steamship), Thomas C. Ragan, Thomas C. Ragan Collection, tugboats, United States (Steamship), White Star Line, yacht races, young readers
WELCOME ABOARD THE S.S. WOLFSONIAN FOR A SPECTACULAR FOOD AND WINE EXPERIENCE
• February 25, 2014 • 1 CommentPosted in cruise ships, Cunard Line, curator, displays, donations, FIU, Florida International University, gifts, graphic arts, library donors, luggage labels, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, ocean liners, oceanliners, passenger ships, posters, promotional materials, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: "behind the Scenes" tours, Andrew Carmellini, Anthony Bourdain, art handlers, Azamara Club Cruises, Bremen (Steamship), Brochures, Carlos Prado, Celebrity chefs, Clyde-Mallory Lines, Conte di Savoia, cruise ships, curators, Daniel Boulud, David McMillan, Eric Ripert, Exhibition designers, Francois Payard, Frederic Morin, Furness Bermuda Line, Hamburg-Amerika Linie, Italia Flotte Riunite, Italian Line, Johannes Tysse, Laurence Miller, menus, museum events, Norddeutsheler Lloyd Bremen (North German Lloyd), ocean liners, promotional literature, Rex (steamship), Richard Miltner, Roma (steamship), Royal Caribbean, Royal Packet Navigation Co., S.S. Wolfsonian, Silvia Barisione, South Beach Wine & Food Festival, Steve Forero-Paz, Swedish American Line, Thomas C. Ragan, United States Line
MEMORABLE SEA TRAGEDIES, AND AN AFFAIR TO REMEMBER: RECENT DONATIONS TO THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY COLLECTION
• October 10, 2013 • Leave a CommentPosted in collectors, cruise ships, Cunard Line, donations, Frederic A. Sharf, gifts, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, library donors, ocean liners, oceanliners, passenger ships, rare books and special collections library, Rochelle T. Pienn, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Uncategorized, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, world cruises, World War I, World War II, WWI, WWII
Tags: 1874-1965, Antwerp (Belgium), Around the world cruises, Belgenland (Steamship), Disasters at sea, Editorial cartoons, Ellis Island Immigration Station (N.Y. and N.J.), Fenner, Franconia (Ship : 1923-1956), Frederic A. Sharf, Icebergs, Laurence Miller, log books, Lusitania (Steamship), MacArthur Causeway, Miami Beach, R.M.S. Titanic, Red Star Line, Roland C. Fenner, Thomas C. Ragan, Troopships, U-Boats, Uncle Sam, unrestricted submarine warfare, White Star Line, Winston Churchill
FROM FDR’S “GOOD NEIGHBOR” POLICY TO HOSPITALITY DESIGN AMERICAS EXPO: REFLECTIONS FROM THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY
• September 25, 2013 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, acquisitions, collectors, Communism, cruise ships, displays, donations, exhibitions, FDR, gifts, Great Depression, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, library donors, museums, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, ocean liners, oceanliners, passenger ships, promotional materials, rare books and special collections library, Rio de Janeiro, Soviet Union, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War II, WWII
Tags: American Historical Association, American interventionism, Brazil, Brochures, Buenos Aires (Argentina), Cargo ships, Clara Helena Palacio Luca, Cold War, FDR, Francis Xavier Luca, GI Rountable series, Good Neighbor Fleet, Good Neighbor Policy, Hospitality Design Americas, Latin America, Miami Beach Convention Center, Montevideo (Uruguay), Moore-McCormack Lines, Pamphlets, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), Rio de janeiro (Brazil), S.S. Argentina, S.S. Uruguay, See the Americas First campaign, Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919), Thomas C. Ragan, tourism, tourist trade, U.S.S.R., Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
TITANIC EXPECTATIONS: A VISIT WITH WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY SUPPORTERS
• August 3, 2013 • 3 CommentsPosted in acquisitions, architects, architecture, bindings, collectors, cruise ships, Cunard Line, displays, donations, Dr. Laurence Miller, exhibitions, gifts, Hamburg-American Line, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, ocean liners, passenger ships, promotional materials, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, transatlantic voyages, war propaganda, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions, Wolfsonian-FIU library, world cruises, World War I, WWI
Tags: book lovers, books, Bruce Hornsby and the Range, Ferries, Frederick and Patricia Supper Foundation (Palm Beach), Good Neighbor Fleet, James Cameron, James River (Virginia), Jean Dunand (1877-1942), La Chasse [The Hunt] bas relief, Long Island, Mauretania, menus, Moore-McCormack Lines, New England, Normandie (Steamship), ocean liner aficionados, private libraries, R.M.S. Lusitania, R.M.S. Titanic, S.S. Argentina, Southampton (Long Island), Steamboats, Thomas C. Ragan, Virginia, Williamsburg
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