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Nostalgia for Cuba: an exhibition, an installation, school visits, a fair, vintage automobiles, a film-noir thriller, and more…
• May 31, 2016 • 1 CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, cars, collectors, Cuba, Cuba Style, curator, curators, displays, donations, exhibit cases, exhibitions, Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, interns, Joe Louis, library donors, memorabilia, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, photography, postcards, rare books and special collections library, school visits to The Wolfsonian, Student exhibit, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Vintage postcards, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian Library volunteers, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions, Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian-FIU library exhibitions
Tags: "Brown Bomber", "Galveston Giant", 1950s, A Lady Without Passport (film: 1950), Advertisements, Alec Guinness, antique automobiles, Barbara Bollini Roca, baseball, beisbol, Boxeo, Boxeo y Beisbol: The Cuba-U.S. Sports Exchange, boxing, Burl Ives, Carteles (magazine), Cuba Nostalgia, CubaNostalgia, expos, Expositions, fairs, Ferries, Havana Collectibles, Havana Habit (book), Havana Nights (film series), Hedy Lamarr, Hotel Nacional, installations, Jack Johnson, Jackie Robinson, John Hodiak, Kaiser Sedan, Kid Gavilan, Marco Ansia, memorabilia, Miami Beach Cinematheque, Miami-Dade high school students, Minnie Minoso, nostalgia, Our Man in Havana (film: 1959), race, race relations, racism, Social (magazine), sports, Vicki Gold Levi, Vicki Gold Levi Collection, vintage cars
PRIVATE DICKS, DAMSELS IN DISTRESS, AND FEMME FATALES: PULP COVER ART AT THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY
• January 8, 2014 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, acquisitions, American war propaganda, Anti-Nazi propaganda, Artists, cataloging, collectors, donations, erotic art, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, health, library donors, Physical culture, Physical Culture movement, rape imagery, rare books and special collections library, Robert J. Young, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Vicki Gold Levi, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, women, World War II, WWII
Tags: 1940s, 1950s, adultery, Avon pocket-sized books, Avon Publishing Company, “true crime” stories, Bernarr Macfadden (1868-1955), Best Western (magazine), Black Bat, Black Book Detective (magazine), Black Legion, Boardwalk Empire, Bride From Broadway (book), Broadway Virgin (book), BUtterfield 8 (book), caricatures, Censorship, Clara Helena Palacio Luca, damsels in distress, Dead As A Dinosaur (book), detectives, Edward G. Robinson (1893-1973), fallen women, Famous Fantastic Mysteries (magazine), femme fatales, Film noir, Flynn's Detective Fiction (magazine), Francis Xavier Luca, G-Men Detective, gangsters, Georgie May (book), glossies, Greatest Detective Cases (magazine), heroes, Humphrey Bogart (1899-1957), Ideal Love (magazine), James Montgomery Flagg (1877-1960), Leading Detective (magazine), Liberty (magazine), magazine cover art, magazine illustrators, Master Detective (magazine), Motion Picture Production Codes (Hays Codes), Movie trailers, murder, murder mysteries, Nazis, New Masses (magazine), Periodicals, Physical Culture (magazine), Physical Culture Movement, Popular Detective (magazine), pornography, prostitution, publishers, publishing moguls, pulp fiction, Pulp Fiction (film: 1994), pulp magazines, Pulps, Quentin Tarantino (film director), Robert J. Young (1928-2009), romance, See What I Mean? (book), serials, sex, slicks, spicy stories, Sunshine and Health (magazine), The Hucksters (book), Thrilling Detective (magazine), Trinity in Violence (book), Tropical Passions (book), True Confessions (magazine), True Detective (HBO series), True Detective (magazine), vice, Vicki Gold Levi, villains, Walter Popp, Wesley Snyder, Westerns
THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARIANS RAISE THEIR VOICES
• February 8, 2013 • 2 CommentsPosted in accessioning, anti-Semitism, antisemitism, archives, Boers, British Army, cataloging, collectors, colonial propaganda, colonialism, David Almeida, Dennis Wiedman, Digital Library Specialist, donations, Dr. Laurence Miller, ethnohistorical methods, ethnohistory, FIU, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, France, Frederic A. Sharf, gifts, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, Jews, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., Occupied France, ocean liners, oceanliners, passenger ships, Photograph albums, pochoirs, postcards, promotional materials, propaganda, propaganda arts, rare books and special collections library, romance, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Uncategorized, Vicki Gold Levi, VIP vistors, war propaganda, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, women, World War II, WWII
Tags: Acisclo Fernandez, Alfred Dreyfus, Ana Ochoa, Andrea Doria, Augustus John Lavie, Austrian Secession, Boxer Rebellion (1898-1901), British colonies, Children's propaganda books, China, Christopher DiCarlo, Cold War, Cristina Pereda, David Almeida, Dr. Francis Xavier Luca, Dr. Laurence Miller, Dr. Nicolae Harsanyi, Dreyfus Affair, Edouard Benedictus, Emile Zola, FIU History Professor Elizabeth Heath, FIU Professor Dennis Wiedman, FIU Professor Raul Reis, FIU Professor Yvette Piggush, French anti-Semitism, German-occupied France, Iris Sanchez-Ruiz, Japanese internment, Jill Bugajski, Judith Berson-Levinson Collection, Michel Potop, Mongolia, Museum of Russian Art (Minneapolis), pochoir prints, Rochelle Pienn, Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905), Sand in their Boots (event), Second Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902), Sharon Gooden, South African War (1899-1902), Tibet, Valentine's Day, Vicki Gold Levi, vintage postcards, Wolfsonian fellows, Work Projects Administration (WPA), Works Progress Administration (WPA), Yellow Peril
IN SEARCH OF NICOLAS QUINTANA: MASTERPLANS, CITYSCAPES, AND HISTORIC POSTCARDS FROM THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY
• September 26, 2012 • Leave a CommentPosted in architects, architecture, Cuba, documentaries, donations, FIU community, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., postcards, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Vintage postcards, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: Architects, Congres Internationale d'Architecture Moderne (1953 : Aix-en-Provence, Cuba, Cuban architects, Cuban architecture, Documentary filmmakers, Documentary films, Dr. Nicolae Harsanyi, FIU faculty, France)), Havana, Hotel Varadero, Josef Asteinza, Le Corbusier, Mariano Ros, Modernist architects, Nicolas Quintana (1925-2011), Regionalist architects, Varadero (Cuba), Varadero Beach (Cuba), Vicki Gold Levi, Vicki Gold Levi Collection, vintage postcards
THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR, WWI, AND LITERATURE OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION
• February 2, 2012 • 2 CommentsPosted in American left artists, American war propaganda, Christopher DeNoon, Communism, Communist Party of the United States, Communist Party of the United States of America, Communists, donations, FDR, Federal Writers' Project, FIU, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, Frederic A. Sharf, gender, gifts, History Department, Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, John and Ideal Gladstone, leftist artists, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, Philippine American War, political art, postcards, posters, propaganda, propaganda arts, propaganda posters, rape imagery, school visits to The Wolfsonian, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Vintage postcards, war propaganda, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War I, World War II, WWI, WWII
Tags: 1930s, Chain gangs, CLara Helena Palacio-de Luca, ephemera, Every Man A King, Francis Xavier Luca, Great Depression, Huey Pierce Long (1893-1935), labor movement, Labor unions, lynchings, My FIrst Days in the White House, Paul Muni (actor), playing cards, PWA (Public Works Administration), Rochelle Pienn, Share the Wealth, Sheet music covers, Spanish- American War of 1898, Spanish-American War, The Christopher DeNoon Collection for the Study of New Deal Culture, Vicki Gold Levi, Victory Gold Levi Collection, Yankee Doodle in Berlin
“V” IS FOR VICTORY!
• December 28, 2011 • 2 CommentsPosted in donations, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, gifts, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Vicki Gold Levi, war propaganda, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War II, WWII
Tags: collectors, ephemera, Home front, Second World War, Vicki Gold Levi, Victory Gold Levi Collection
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