Havana, Cuba: America’s Former Premier Tourist Destination
• January 15, 2020 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, 1950s, acquisitions, architects, architecture, Art Deco, Artists, bars, CLara Helena Palacio Luca, Cuba, dance, displays, exhibitions, Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, library donors, memorabilia, museums, postcards, posters, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian Library, Vicki Gold Levi, VIP vistors, Wolfsonian staff
Tags: architecture, Arcos de Cristal, Ava Gardner, Bacardi, bats, Biltmore Hotel chain, Cabarets, Capri Hotel (1957), Caricaturas (Wolfsonian Library installation), caricatures, caricaturists, Carteles (magazine), Casinos, cha cha cha, Cha-Cha-Cha Boom! (film: 1956), Charles Francis Flynn, Coca-cola, Comodoro Hotel (1955), Conrado Walter Massaguer, Cuban Caricature and Culture: The Art of Massaguer (Wolfsonian installation), Cuban exiles, Cuban Institute of Tourism, Cuban Tourist Commission, daiquiris, Desi Arnaz (1917-1986), Dick Powell, El Figaro (magazine), Emilio Cueto, Fidel Castro, Film noir, Frank Sinatra, Fulgencio Batista, gangsters, Gerardo Machado (1871-1939), Glamour, Grafico (magazine), Gran Casino Nacional (Havana), Guys and Dolls (film : 1955), Habana Hilton, Havana (Cuba), Havana: The Magazine of Cuba, honeymooners, Hotel Nacional de Cuba, Joan Blondell, John McEntee Bowman, mafiosa, Mary Hatcher, McKim Mead and White (architectural firm), New York World's Fair (1939-1940), Oscar Massaguer, Our Man in Havana (film: 1959), Pier Five Havana (film : 1959), political refugees, political satire, Prohibition (1919-1933), public relations, publishers, Ramon Arroyo Cisneros (Arroyito), Riviera Hotel (1957), roulette, rum, Schultze and Weaver (architectural firm), Sevilla-Biltmore, Social (magazine), Tim Hossler, tourism, Tropicana (Nightclub), Uncle Sam, University of Kansas, vacation destinations, Victory Gold Levi Collection
A Flurry of Wolfsonian Library Installations and Displays
• May 2, 2019 • 2 CommentsPosted in 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, acquisitions, Adolf Hitler caricatures, American war propaganda, Anti-Nazi propaganda, archives, Art Deco, Artists, Bernarr Macfadden, book art, collectors, displays, donations, erotic art, exhibit cases, Fascism, Federal One, FIU, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, Francis Xavier Luca, gender, gifts, graphic arts, Green Library, History Department, hotels, Italian design, Italy, library donors, memorabilia, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, New Deal era, persuasive arts, Philippines, photography, Physical culture, Physical Culture movement, pochoirs, political art, portfolios, postcards, posters, propaganda, propaganda posters, rare books and special collections library, student curators, The Wolfsonian Library, Vicki Gold Levi, War Photography, war propaganda, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian staff, World War (1939-1945), World War II, WWII
Tags: Adolf Hitler caricatures, aids, AIGA Miami, Alert (magazine), Althea (Vicki) Silvera, Aristotle [Chakiris] Ares USS Yorktown Collection, Art Deco hotels, Art Deco motifs, Arthur Zaidenberg, barracks, Battle of Midway, Benito Mussolini caricatures, Bologna (Italy), butterflies, Chief librarian, Clara Helena Palacio Luca, condoms, correspondence, deviant sexual behavior, Dick Lesseraux, digital collections curator, Dolores S. Lesseraux, Dolores Trenner, Erin Heffron, erotica, Federal Arts Project, Florida Department of Health in Miami-Dade County, Fortunato Depero, Francis Xavier Luca, Gender roles, gonorrhea, Green Library, Historical Design, hiv, HIV/Aids awareness posters, Homosexuality, humor, Insects, installations, Japanese destroyers, Judith Berson-Levinson, lesbianism, madonna, Manila (Philippines), Mel Victor WWII Pacific Theater Collection, menus, Miami (Florida), Miami Air Depot, Miami Beach (Florida), Naval battles, Pacific Theater, Pamphlets, Physical Culture (magazine), pochoirs, portfolio plates, postcards, Posterfest, Posterfest: Design for Good 2019, proofs, prostitution, public health, pulp paperbacks, rationing, Rosie the Riveter, Sand in their Boots archive, Seguy, sex, sex advice, sexual behavior, syphilis, Terrence G. Peterson, Tojo caricatures, U.S. Army Air Forces, Uncle Sam, Uniforms, USS Lexington (aircraft carrier), USS Yorktown (aircraft carrier), venereal disease, Victory, Victory Gold Levi Collection, warships, Women war workers, Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, Yucef Merhi
From Magazines to Zines
• February 7, 2018 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, Adolf Hitler caricatures, African American History, Bernarr Macfadden, bindings, book art, CCC, children's books, circuses, Civilian Conservation Corps, CLara Helena Palacio Luca, displays, donations, fashion, fashion for women, FDR, Francis Xavier Luca, Frank Lloyd Wright, fur, gender, gifts, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, Pamela K. Harer, Physical culture, postcards, programs, racism, rare books and special collections library, Robert J. Young, school visits to The Wolfsonian, Scottsboro Trial, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, typography, Wiener Werkstatte, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, youth movements, Zines
Tags: A-D (magazine), AIZ (magazine), Amazing Stories (pulp magazine), animal exploitation, Anti-Asian prejudice, beauty culture, Black Lives Matter movement, Black Venus, body image, bolt bindings, book bindings, Braddock, branding, carbon paper, cartoons, CCC camp zines, CCC camps, Circuses, Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), Clara Helena Palacio Luca, David Almeida, Dust Bowl, Elizabeth Zoe Welch, Environmental movement, Ethiopia, Expo '74 (Spokane), fanzines, foils, Fortunato Depero (1892-1960), Fourth of July, Francis Xavier Luca, Frank Buck, fur, gay/lesbian literature, Gender roles, Gina Wouters, Hialeah Gardens, iPrep, Italian futurists, jokes, José Martí MAST, KKK, Ku Klux Klan, La Revue Ford (magazine), Law Enforcement Senior High, LGBTQ, Louis C. Tiffany & Co., Magazines, Miami Beach High, Miami Norland, Miami-Dade County schoolteachers, mimeograph machines, news, objectification of women, Patriotism, Periodicals, photocopiers, Photomontage, Physical Culture (magazine), plastic bindings, poetry, prejudice, pulp magazines, pulp paperbacks, Ring (magazine), science fiction, sexual orientation, Sheet music covers, South Miami, Southwest Miami, stereotypes, tailored suits, Terra, textiles, the "Me Too" movement, the Blues, The Christopher DeNoon Collection for the Study of New Deal Culture, transparencies, Uncle Sam, Vanity Fair (magazine), Vicki Gold Levi Collection, Wells Fargo, Wendingen (magazine), womanizing, Zines
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
THE “GREAT WAR” AND ITS SEQUEL: WWI WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY EXHIBIT TO CLOSE, WWII EXHIBIT TO OPEN
• March 13, 2015 • Leave a CommentPosted in donations, gifts, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., Pamela K. Harer, photography, postcards, propaganda, rare books and special collections library, Second World War (1939-1945), student curators, Student exhibit, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Veterans Day, War Photography, war propaganda, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War (1914-1918), World War (1939-1945), World War I, World War II, WWI, WWII
Tags: alphabet books, American eagle, Army barracks, At Ease: Miami Beach During the Second World War (Wolfsonian library exhibit), atlases, bathing beaches, beaches, Bernhardt Wall (1872-1956), caricatures, coloring books, Cossacks, Dachshunds, dogs, Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog, Exhibition openings, games, geese, Geishas, German Kaiser Wilhelm II (1859-1941), H. Lawrence Wiggins III, Hotels, Humpty Dumpty, John Bull, Judith Berson-Levinson Collection, liberty cabbage, Liberty Loans, marching, Marianne, Miami Beach Centennial, Miami Beach Centennial celebration, military drill, military exercises, military parade, Mother Goose, Natalie Vera, nursery rhyme books, Nursery Rhymes for Fighting Times, Pamphlets, parodies, pickelhaube helmets, postcards, Puzzles, Sand in their Boots (event), satires, sauerkraut, servicemen, sheet music, souvenir view books, Stephen Castellanos, syllabification books, The Children's Crusade (Wolfsonian library exhibit), the Great War, Todd Jolly, tourists, U.S. Army Air Forces, Uncle Sam, Veterans Day
“THE JEWEL CITY” BY THE GOLDEN GATE: THE 1915 PANAMA-PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION
• April 24, 2014 • 2 CommentsPosted 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: Bernard Maybeck, Cawston Ostrich Farm, chocolate, cocoa beans, Exhibition buildings, Ferdinand Magellan, Ghirardelli, Golden Gate, Hercules, international expositions, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, Keystone View Company, Midways, Palace of Fine Arts (San Francisco), Panama Canal, Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915 : San Francisco), pavilions, souvenir viewbooks, stereographs, Thomas Hastings, Tower of Jewels, Uncle Sam, Vasco Núñez de Balboa, vintage postcards, William Howard Taft, World's Fairs
THE POWER OF DESIGN: CONTEMPORARY AND HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES ON COMPLAINTS AT THE WOLFSONIAN-FIU
• March 27, 2014 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, American left artists, Anti-Nazi propaganda, Eric Gill, FDR, Federal One, graphic arts, graphic designers, Great Britain, Great Depression, Harald Engman, Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), leftist artists, museums, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, persuasive arts, political art, propaganda, propaganda arts, propaganda posters, rare books and special collections library, Steve Heller, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, VIP vistors, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War I, WWI
Tags: A. Birnbaum, Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), Adolf Hitler caricatures, American eagle, and William Gropper (1897-1977), Anti-Capitalist propaganda, anti-taxation propaganda, Arthur Neville Chamberlain (1869–1940) caricatures, British Arts & Crafts Movement, Bummer (Wolfsonian exhibition), Cannibals, Cannon-fodder, Cathy Leff, Complaint booths, Complaint choir, Complaints! An Inalienable Right (poster exhibition), dehumanization, Denis Tegetmeier (1896-1987), Der Kunstliche Mensch, Design historians, Editorial cartoons, Eric Gill (1882-1940), Federal Arts Projects, Federal One, Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), Georg Grosz (1893-1959), Great Depression, Guest curators, guest speakers, Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), Icebergs, Jesus Christ, Knight Foundation, Miami Heral Media Company, Nazis, New Deal America, Paradox of Plenty, Political cartoons, Political machines, Power of Design (Complaints), Power of Design festival, prostitution, Prussian militarism, R. D. Fitzpatrick, Religious hypocrisy, Richard Miltner, robots, Social satire, Steven Heller, Stock Market Crash (October 1929), Todd Oldham, Uncle Sam, Unemployment, Willi Geisler (1848-1928), WLRN (Public radio), Work and Leisure, Work Projects Administration (WPA), Wounded war veterans
ELEPHANTS, DONKEYS, EAGLES, AND UNCLE SAM: NEW DEAL BRANDING FROM THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY
• January 18, 2014 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, AAA, acquisitions, American left artists, American war propaganda, Artists, Blue eagle, Christopher DeNoon, collectors, Communism, Communist Party of the United States, Communist Party of the United States of America, Communists, donations, Fascism, FDR, Federal One, Federal Theatre Project (U.S.), FTP, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, Great Depression, International Labor Defense (ILD), leftist artists, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, NRA, photography, photomontage, political art, promotional materials, propaganda, propaganda arts, propaganda posters, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Vicki Gold Levi, visual thinking strategies, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War II, WWII
Tags: "Brain Trust", "We do our part" (NRA motto), 18th Amendment (Prohibition), A. Birnbaum, Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA), American Artists' Congress, American eagles, anti-prohibition sentiment and songs, Arsenal of Democracy, Bacardi, Blue eagle (thunderbird) campaign, Bureau of Graphic (OWI), cartoons, Charles T. Coiner (1898-1989), Clara Helena Palacio Luca, Cock Robin, Democratic donkey, Don Quixote, Editorial cartoons, Einson_Freeman Company, Farm Secuirty Administration (FSA), Federal Art Project (FAP), Federal Works Agency (FWA), Francis Xavier Luca, Ganymede, Giacomo Patri (1898-1978), GOP elephant, Greek mythology, Havana (Cuba), High School students, Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), iPrepartory Academy, It Will Never Be Dry Down In Havana, James Cagney (1899-1986), Japanese Empire, Jimmy Durante (1893-1980), Magazine covers, Mother Goose in Washington, National Recovery Administration (NRA), National Retrogression Act (NRA), NRA parade (NYC), Office for Emergency Management (OEM), Office of War Information (OWI), Old King Dole, Paolo Garetto (1903-1989), Political cartoons, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), President Herbert Hoover (1874-1964), Progressive Era, Punch (magazine), Ringling School of Art and Design (Sarasota FL), Roosevelt Album, Roosevelt Omnibus, Rural Electrification Administration (REA), satires, Sheet music covers, Sir Bernard Partridge (1861-1945), Socialist Labor Party, Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), The Christopher DeNoon Collection for the Study of New Deal Culture, Ticker tape parades, U.S. Supreme Court, Uncle Sam, Vaughan Shoemaker (1902-1991), White Collar, Will H. Chandler, William Gropper (1897-1977)
POTTY HUMOR FROM THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY COLLECTION IN HONOR OF WORLD TOILET DAY
• November 19, 2013 • 2 CommentsPosted in American war propaganda, Anti-Nazi propaganda, donations, gifts, Leonard A. Lauder, library donors, memorabilia, persuasive arts, postcards, propaganda, propaganda arts, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, war propaganda, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War I, World War II, World's fairs, WWI, WWII
Tags: A Century of Progress International Exposition (1933-1934: Chicago Ill), Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), Advertisements, American pictorial wit, Axis leaders, Bathrooms, Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), Bernhardt Wall (1872-1956), Brochures, caricatures, CLara Helena Palacio-de Luca, Flush toilets, Francis Xavier Luca, Hideki Tōjō (1884–1948), Indoor plumbing, Jeffrey G. Fischer, Latrines, Leonard A. Lauder, manufacturers' catalogs, Michael Smith, Military life, Novelty works, Outhouses, Photomontage, promised gifts, public toilets, Sewers, Toilet paper, toilets, Uncle Sam, United Nations, Urinals, vintage postcards, Water closets, World Toilet Day
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
Wolfsonian-FIU Library 