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Out With the Old, In With the New: FDR’s Inauguration and a New Wolfsonian Library Installation

• March 4, 2016 • Leave a Comment

Posted in American war propaganda, colonial propaganda, colonialism, curators, donations, exhibitions, Florida International University students, Francis Xavier Luca, Frederic A. Sharf, gifts, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, library donors, Maine (Battleship, New Deal era, propaganda, rare books and special collections library, Spanish-American War, student curators, War Photography, war propaganda, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian-FIU library exhibitions
Tags: Cuba, Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), Good Neighbor Policy, Gunboat diplomacy, Havana harbor, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, Remember the Maine!, Rough Riders, Sheet music covers, Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919), U.S.S. Maine

The Old Maine and the Sea, or, Spanish-American War Sheet Music at The Wolfsonian-FIU Library

• August 13, 2015 • Leave a Comment

Posted in acquisitions, Cuba, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, Monroe County Public Library (Key West, Rochelle T. Pienn, Spain, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: 1890s, African-American military officers, Anne Layton Rice, Cuba, Dr. Francis Xavier Luca, Ernest Hemingway, Evangelina Cisneros, Hemingway cats, Karl Decker, Key West (Florida), New York Journal, Publishers' decorative bindings, Sheet music covers, Spanish- American War of 1898, U.S.S. Maine, United States

HOLIDAY IN HAVANA: VISITORS MAKE A STOPOVER AT THE WOLFSONIAN ENROUTE TO CUBA

• March 17, 2012 • 1 Comment

Posted in Cuba, Cuba Style, graphic arts, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, library donors, memorabilia, political art, postcards, posters, prohibition, promotional materials, rare books and special collections library, Rochelle T. Pienn, Vicki Gold Levi, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: 18th Amendment (Prohibition), Advertisements, American intervention in Cuba, Bohemia (periodical), Che Guevara, commercial advertising, Cuban bandleaders, Cuban Independence Movement, Cuban revolutionaries, Desi Arnaz (1917-1986), Fidel Castro, Frederic A. Sharf, Guerra de los Diez Anos, Holiday in Havana (1949), Jose Marti, Rochelle Pienn, Spanish- American War of 1898, sugar industry, tourist trade, U.S.-Cuba tourist trade, U.S.-Cuba travel, U.S.S. Maine, William Randolph Hearst