Reflections on the Passing of Fidel Castro and the U.S.-Cuba Relationship by Wolfsonian–FIU Chief Librarian Francis Luca
• December 1, 2016 • 1 CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, acquisitions, bars, Communism, Cuba, dance, FIU, FIU community, Florida International University, Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, History Department, hotels, library donors, museums, persuasive arts, photography, promotional materials, propaganda, rare books and special collections library, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: 1950s, 25th of July Movement, Affair in Havana (film : 1957), Afro-Cuban jazz, American celebrities, American tourists in Cuba, Bar La Florida (Havana), Bay of Pigs invasion, Cabarets, Casino de Capri, Casinos, cha cha cha, Chano Pozo, Che! (film : 1969), Clara Helena Palacio Luca, Coca-cola, Cocktail Time in Cuba, Conrado W. Massaguer, Cuba, Cuba (film : 1979), Cuban exiles, Cuban Missile Crisis, Cuban musicians, Cuban Rebel Girls (film : 1959), dictators, Dizzy Gillespie, Ed Sullivan, Errol Flynn, Escape from Hell Island (film : 1964), Ferries, Fidel Castro, Francis Xavier Luca, Fulgencio Batista, Gran Casino Nacional de Habana, Granma, Guys and Dolls (film : 1955), Habana Libre (hotel), Havana (Cuba), Havana Hilton, Havana Widows (film : 1933), honeymooners, Jose Marti, Key West (Florida), La Bodeguita del Medio (restaurant : Havana), Liberace, mambo, Moncada barracks (Santiago de Cuba), Nightclubs, Pier Five Havana (film : 1959), President Obama, Prohibition, promised gifts, Raul Castro, Rita Hayworth, roulette, rum, rumba, Rumba (film : 1935), showgirls, Sloppy Joe's Bar (Havana), strippers, striptease, Tampa (Florida), tourists, Tropicana (Nightclub), United States, Vicki Gold Levi, Vicki Gold Levi Collection, We Shall Return (film : 1963), Wolfsonian Chief Librarian, Woolworths department store, Ybor City (Florida)
From the United States, to the Philippines, to Tokyo, to Cuba: BAA & NEH Scholars Visit The Wolfsonian–FIU
• June 18, 2016 • 1 CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, African American History, Alabama, American left artists, architecture, Artists, colonial propaganda, colonialism, Communist Party of the United States, Communist Party of the United States of America, Communists, curator, displays, exhibitions, Far East, FIU, FIU community, Florida International University, Francis Xavier Luca, Frederic A. Sharf, graphic arts, Japan, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, leftist artists, library donors, museums, Philippine American War, Philippine-American War (1899-1902), Philippines, Photograph albums, racism, rare books and special collections library, Rochelle T. Pienn, War Photography, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: African-Americans, Al Jolson, Anti-communism, Art Deco, Bavarian American Academy, Bayerische Amerika-Akademie, block print books, death penalty, Dr. Amy Bliss Marshall, Dr. Hitomi Yoshio, Dr. Steven Heine, electric chair, Felix Lewis, Francis Xavier Luca, Hap Hadley, Japan, Josephine Baker, Koizumi Kishio (1893-1945), Lidu Yi, lino-cut books, Mac Harshberger (1900-1975), National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), Nicolae Harsanyi, Philippines, Promising Paradise: Cuban Allure--American Seduction (exhibition), Quit Cryin' the Blues, racism, Remembering Tokyo (exhibit), Rochelle Pienn, Scottsboro Boys, Scottsboro Trial (Alabama), stereotypes, summer institutes, summer programs, Tokyo: High City and Low City, United States
The Old Maine and the Sea, or, Spanish-American War Sheet Music at The Wolfsonian-FIU Library
• August 13, 2015 • Leave a CommentPosted 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
It’s The Great War, Charlie Brown, or: First World War Images from the Wolfsonian-FIU Library
• October 22, 2014 • Leave a CommentPosted in airplanes, donations, First World War (1914-1918), gifts, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, library donors, photography, rare books and special collections library, Rochelle T. Pienn, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, War Photography, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, women, World War I, WWI
Tags: biplanes, Canada, Cavalry, Charles M. Shulz, Chemical warfare, flying aces, France, gas attacks, Gas masks, Gender roles, German Gotha, Germany, Halloween, hogs, It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown, Linus, Manfred von Richthofen (the “Red Baron” 1892-1918), Maps, Morocco, Nicholas II Emperor of Russia (1868-1918), Peanuts, Rosie the Riveter, rotogravure, Snoopy, Switzerland, the Great War (1914-1918), The New York Times, United States, war, Women war workers
ON EPIDEMICS AND ESCAPE ROUTES: THE 100th ANNIVERSARY OF THE PANAMA CANAL AT THE WOLFSONIAN-FIU LIBRARY
• August 15, 2014 • Leave a CommentPosted in cruise ships, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, Panama Canal, passenger ships, Photograph albums, Rochelle T. Pienn, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wonders Never Cease: The 100th Anniversary of the Panama Canal (Exhibition)
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