Varied Views for a Variety of Visitors
• December 15, 2023 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1920s, acquisitions, African American History, Art Basel, Artists, bindings, book art, children's books, Cuba, curator, dance, Disney, displays, Dr. Nicolae Harsanyi, exhibitions, Francis Xavier Luca, French consulate, gifts, graphic designers, library donors, Michelle Oka Doner, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, Orientalism, prohibition, The Wolfsonian Library, Vicki Gold Levi, Wolfsonian staff, World's fairs
Tags: 1939-1940 New York World's Fair, 1964-1965 New York World's Fair, A. Assus, Aaron Douglas (1899-1979), Al Hirschfeld, Alex Rigorard, All the World's a Stage: The Sketchbooks and Theatrical Designs of Albert Wainwright (Wolfsonian Library installation), André Suréda, Art Basel, Atomium, celebrities, Charles Laborde (1886-1941), collecting cards, Colonies, Cuba, dancers, Daniel Morris, Donald Deskey, ephemera, Expo '58 (Brussels), Exposition coloniale internationale, FIU, FIU Professor Maria Antonieta Garcia, Folies Bergere, France, France's overseas empire, Francis Xavier Luca, French Guiana, French Orientalists, Futurama, Guyane francaise, Harlem Renaissance, Josephine Baker, La Reunion, La Tunisie, LACMA, Louis Antoni, Marco Brambilla, Maurice Bouviolle, movies stars, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey (Mexico), paper toys, Paul Colin (1892-1985), pop-up books, Progressland, Prohibition, revues, Sheet music covers, singers, Sketchbooks, the Charleston (dance), tourism, Walt Disney
Giving Thanks and Debunking Myths
• November 24, 2020 • 3 CommentsPosted in book art, children's books, colonialism, donations, exhibitions, Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, graphic designers, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., photography, postcards, racism, skyscrapers, The Wolfsonian Library, Vintage postcards, Wolfsonian
Tags: A Century of Progress International Exposition (Chicago: 1933-1934), Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (1909: Seattle WA), Alexander Phimister Proctor, American flag, Apache Indians, assimilation, Black Partridge, bronze sculptures, Buffalo Bill's WIld West Show, Carl Rohl-Smith (1848–1900), Centennial International Exhibition (1876: Philadelphia), Charles M. Russell, Cheyenne Indians, Chicago, Chief Simon Pokagon, children, Christopher Columbus, civilization, Clara Helena Palacio Luca, colonists, Cowboys, Custer's Last Stand, disease, Edward Berge (1876-1924), Envelopes, equestrian statues, ethnic cleansing, Exhibition buildings, fair grounds, fair-goers, feasts, feather headresses, Fort Dearborn, General George Armstron Custer, harvest celebrations, human zoos, Indian Removal, Indian reservations, Indians, James Earle Fraser (1876–1900), Jamestown Exposition (1907), John Smith, King Philip's War, Louisiana Purchase International Exposition (1904 : St Louis), Massasoit, Metacom, Midways, Miss Columbia, Native Americans, pavilions, Penobscot Indians, Pequot Indians, Pilgrims, Plains Indians, Pocahontas, Potawatomi Indians, Powhatan Confederacy, President Andrew Jackson, Red Man's Greeting, rituals, riveters, Santa Clara Indians, savagery, sculpture, Sioux Indians, skyscrapers, spectators, Squanto, Statues, teepees, Thanksgiving, Tickets, Trans-Mississippi Exposition (1898 : Omaha Nebraska), Umatilla Indians, Ute Indians, viewbooks, Walt Disney, Walter Crane (1845-1915), Wampanoag Indians, white birch bark, wigwams, World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago), World's Fairs, Yakima Indian Reservation
SPIES AND ALLIES: A WOLFSONIAN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
• November 2, 2013 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, Adolf Hitler caricatures, airplanes, American war propaganda, Anti-Nazi propaganda, Artists, children's books, Children's propaganda books, collectors, Communists, Disney, donations, Elinor Brecher, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, Great Britain, leftist artists, library donors, Pamela K. Harer, persuasive arts, political art, propaganda, propaganda arts, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, war propaganda, wartime Britain, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War II, WWII
Tags: Allies, America First Committee, Arsenal of Democracy, Aviators, Bill Justice, British spies, Children's book authors, David Mackenzie Ogilvy (1911-1999), Fifth Columnists, George Gallup, Gremlins, Hennet Conant's The Irregulars, Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), Hyde Park (New York), Ian Fleming (1908-1964), Inez Hogan, James Bond, Lend-lease, Leo Brecher, MI6, National Public Radio, National Security Agency (NSA), NPR, RAF, Roald Dahl (1916-1990), Safety Education Division Flight Control Command United States Army Air Force, Sir Noël Peirce Coward (1899-1973, Spandules, Spies, U.S. Army Air Forces, Walt Disney
GOOD NEIGHBOR FLEET EXHIBIT OPENS IN THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY
• June 2, 2012 • 3 CommentsPosted in 1930s, acquisitions, Argentina, Brazil, collectors, cruise ships, Digital Library Specialist, Disney, displays, donations, exhibitions, Fascism, FDR, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, library donors, Nazism, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, ocean liners, passenger ships, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War II, WWII
Tags: Ada Peacock, Animators, Aquarela do Brazil (cartoon), Argentine State Line, art handlers, ashtrays, Brazil, cartoons, CIAA, cruises, David Almeida, deck plans, Donald Duck, FDR, Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), Good Neighbor Fleet, Good Neighbor Policy, Goofy, illustrators, inaugural speeches, James Taylor, Jose Carioca, Laurence Miller, matchcovers, menus, Michel Potop, Moore-McCormack Lines, Musical cartoons, Office of Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, postcards, S.S. Argentina, S.S. Brazil, S.S. Uruguay, Saludos Amigos (cartoon 1943), South America, Steve Forero-Paz, Thomas C. Ragan, Uruguay, Walt Disney
NAZIS, AND GREMLINS, AND SPANDULES, OH MY! WWII CARTOON CHARACTERS AT THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY
• March 14, 2012 • 3 CommentsPosted in Adolf Hitler caricatures, American war propaganda, Anti-Nazi propaganda, children's books, Children's propaganda books, Disney, donations, FIU, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, gifts, History Department, library donors, political art, propaganda, propaganda arts, war propaganda, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War II, WWII
Tags: Adolf Hitler caricatures, Allies, animated film shorts, Army Air Foce (US), Axis, Blondie, caricatures, Cartoon characters, cartoons, Century of the Child: Growing by Design 1900-2000, Charlie Chaplin, CLara Helena Palacio-de Luca, Comic strip characters, Dagwood, Donald Duck, Francis Xavier Luca, Gremlins, Gremlins from the Kremlin, Judith Berson-Levinson Collection, macaronic speech, Merrie Melodies, MoMA (Museum of Modern Art), Pamela K. Harer, Royal Air Force (RAF), Russian Rhapsody, Spandules, The Great Dictator (1940), Walt Disney, Warner Brothers
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