Skullduggery: Happy Howl-O-Ween from The Wolf
• October 16, 2023 • 1 CommentPosted in American war propaganda, Artists, book art, curators, displays, First World War (1914-1918), Francis Xavier Luca, graphic arts, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, persuasive arts, posters, propaganda, propaganda arts, propaganda posters, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian Library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian staff, World War (1914-1918), World War I, WWI
Tags: Barron Gift Collier (1873-1939), book illustrators, caricaturists, Cartoonists, cartoons, dance macabre, dance with death, Death, demons, Devil, Edgar Allan Poe, Francis Xavier Luca, German expressionist films, gothic poetry and stories, Halloween, Harry Clarke, horror films, Kaiser Wilhelm II (Emperor of Germany), Louis Raemaekers (1869-1956), Militarism, propagandists, silent film classics, Skeletons, skulls, Tales of Mystery and Imagination / by Edgar Allan Poe, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (film: 1920), Wolfsonian Museum, World War (1914-1918)
LAST OF THE ROMANOVS: SOME WOLFSONIAN REFLECTIONS ON THE LAST RUSSIAN CZAR ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF HIS CORONATION
• May 26, 2015 • Leave a CommentPosted in Uncategorized
Tags: 1896, Abdications, Autocrats, Bolsheviks, Cherbourg (France), coronations, Czar Nicholas II, Czarina Alexandra, Czars, France, Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary Library, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, Moscow, Paris, revolutions, Romanov dynasty, Romanovs, Russia, Russian Revolution (1905), Russian revolution (1917), Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905), Soviet Union, State visits, the Great War, Tsars, Versailles (France), World War (1914-1918)
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 FALSE PROMISES OF PROPAGANDA: AFRICAN-AMERICANS AND THE GREAT WAR IN THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY COLLECTION
• February 8, 2015 • 1 CommentPosted in African American History, American war propaganda, Children's propaganda books, Civil Rights Movement, displays, exhibit cases, exhibitions, FIU, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, gender, graphic arts, History Department, Miami Ad School, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, Pamela K. Harer, political art, posters, propaganda, propaganda arts, propaganda posters, rare books and special collections library, student curators, Student exhibit, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, war propaganda, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions, Wolfsonian-FIU library, women, World War (1914-1918), World War I, WWI
Tags: 369th Infantry Regiment, Addie Waite Hunton (1866-1943), African-Americans, American Expeditionary Force (AEF), American flags, “Negro” soldiers, Black History Month, Colonel Thomas A. Roberts, Colored troops, Croix de Guerre, E. G. Renesch (printer), Fireplaces, Hearths, Henry Lincoln Johnson (1897-1929), heroes, James Reese Europe (1881-1919), Joseph-Félix Boucher (1853-1937), Kathryn Magnolia Johnson (1878-?), Miami Ad School, Monika Pobog-Weckert, Negroes, Patriotism, prejudice, racial strife, racism, recruiting posters, segregation, the Great War, the Harlem Hellfighters, World War (1914-1918), WWI, YMCA
RAZZLE DAZZLE, ART BASEL: A WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY EXHIBIT ON THE “GREAT WAR” AND THE DECORATION OF THE MUSEUM’S FAÇADE
• November 29, 2014 • Leave a CommentPosted in airplanes, American war propaganda, Armistice Day, children's books, Children's propaganda books, curators, displays, donations, exhibit cases, exhibitions, First World War (1914-1918), FIU, FIU community, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, gifts, History Department, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, ocean liners, Pamela K. Harer, passenger ships, persuasive arts, political art, postcards, posters, propaganda, propaganda arts, propaganda posters, rare books and special collections library, Veterans Day, war propaganda, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War (1914-1918), World War I, WWI
Tags: airplanes, Art Basel, artists, biplanes, Camouflage, Dazzle Painting, facades, Intricate Pattern Overlay, Michelle Weinberg, Painting, Professor Francis Luca, R.M.S. Lusitania, ships, submarine warfare, the Great War, U-Boat attacks, U-Boats, unrestricted submarine warfare, war artists, warships, World War (1914-1918), World War I, WWI
HALLOWEEN, WOLFSONIAN-STYLE: DR. CALIGARI, NOSFERATU, AND THE HORRORS OF THE “GREAT WAR”
• October 31, 2014 • Leave a CommentPosted in Florida International University, library donors, Lynd Ward (1905-1985), Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, propaganda posters, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Uncategorized, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War I, WWI
Tags: Anton Kaes, Armistice (November 11th 1918), barbed wire, Camouflage, Cesare (film character), civilian casualties, coffins, Count Orlok, Cubism, Death, defoliated trees, Dr. Caligari (film character), F. W. Nurnau, Film noir, flu, Full Speed Ahead! (newspaper), G. Pretty's Kultur (water-color painting), Georg Grosz (1893-1959), German Expressionism, God's Man: A Novel In Woodcuts, graphic novels, Halloween, Holstenwall, hypnotism, influenza, influenza pandemic (1918-1919), insane asylums, Jean-Martin Charcot (1825-1893), military conscription, movie reviews, movie sets, Nosferatu (film: 1922), plague, prophesy, psychiatrists, rat hunts, Rats, Red Cross, shadows, Shell Shock Cinema: Weimar Culture and the Wounds of War, shell-bursts, Shell-shock, showmen, silent film classics, Silent Shriek (Wolfsonian film series), social criticism, somnambulists, Spanish Influenza epidemic, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (film: 1921), the Great War (1914-1918), Transylvania, Trench warfare, Une leçon clinique à la Salpêtrière / [painting by] Andre Brouillet (1886), Vampires, Vermin, war and film, war artists, War casualties, war crimes, war neurosis, William Smithson Broadhead (1888-1960), World War (1914-1918), Wounded war veterans, zombies
WOMEN AND THE FIRST WORLD WAR: SOME ARTIFACTS FROM THE WOLFSONIAN-FIU LIBRARY COLLECTION
• October 3, 2014 • 1 CommentPosted in acquisitions, American war propaganda, Children's propaganda books, displays, donations, exhibitions, fashion, fashion for women, FIU, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, France, gender, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, History Department, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, passenger ships, persuasive arts, political art, postcards, posters, propaganda, propaganda arts, propaganda posters, rape imagery, rare books and special collections library, school visits to The Wolfsonian, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Vintage postcards, war propaganda, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, women, World War I, WWI
Tags: "jumping jack" (paper puppets), "pin-up" art, AEF (American Expeditionary Force), African-American soldiers, American military uniforms, anti-interventionist propaganda, anti-war propaganda, Broadsides, castration anxiety, Celia Malone Kingsbury’s For Home and Country: World War I Propaganda on the Home Front, coach drivers, Doughboys, emasculation fears, femininity, feminists, French women, gender issues, Gender roles, La Tradotta, Louis Raemaekers (1869-1956), love, Lusitania (Steamship), magazine cover art, manliness, mothers and sons, mothers of soldiers, munitions factories, Musical scores, Myth and Machine: The First World War in Visual Culture (Wolfsonian exhibition), Navy recruitment, Neutrality, nurses and nursing, pacifism, porters, portfolios, postmen, President Woodrow Wilson, R.M.S. Lusitania, recruiting posters, Red Cross nurses, romance, Sailor suits, Service flags, Sheet music covers, shell factories, street sweepers, Sweethearts, The Delineator (magazine), the Great War (1914-1918), Thomas C. Ragan, trolley conductors, U-Boat attacks, Umberto Brunelleschi (1879-1949), War & Society: The First World War (FIU History class), War brides, war work, Wilson's "Too proud to fight" speech (May 1915), Woman's Suffrage Movement, women, women and children, women barbers, women's war work, World War (1914-1918)
BEFORE THE WORLD WENT TO WAR: GLIMPSES FROM THE WOLFSONIAN-FIU LIBRARY COLLECTION
• August 29, 2014 • Leave a CommentPosted in book art, collectors, displays, donations, exhibitions, fashion, fashion for women, Futurism, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, Great Britain, Italian design, Italy, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, library donors, Panama Canal, persuasive arts, political art, propaganda, propaganda arts, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Vienna, Vienna Secession, war propaganda, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions, Wolfsonian-FIU library, women, World War I, WWI
Tags: 1914, Acerba, AIGA (American Institute of Graphic Arts), Alastair (1887-1969), Aubrey Beardsley (1872-1898), Austro-Hungarian Empire, Baron Hans Henning Voight (1887-1969), Belle Epoque, Blast (Vorticist manifesto), C. R. W. Nevinson (1889-1946), caricatures, Carmen, cartoons, Central Europe, Devrin D. Weiss, Dr. Nicolae Harsanyi, Edward Wadsworth (1889-1949), Egon Schiele (1890-1918), F. T. (Filippo Tommaso) Marinetti (1876-1944), First World War, Franz joseph I, Futurism, Futurist poetry, Georges Goursat (1863-1934), German Kaiser Wilhelm II (1859-1941), Insects, Italian Futurism, Italian futurists, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, John Bull, Kriegs-album der Lustige Blätter (periodicals), Krupp, L'Eroica (periodical), Lacerba (Futurist manifesto), Le Mot (periodical), Le Vrai & le faux chic, Lobsters, Mela Koehler (1885-1960), Omega Workshops, Panama Canal, Paul Iribe (1883-1935), propaganda, Raul Rodriguez, Rebel Art Centre, Satire, Sem (1863-1934), Sharf Associate Librarian, Sharf Associate Librarian Rochelle Pienn, silk advertisements, Social satire, Symbolist poetry, Ver Sacrum (Sacred Spring) magazine, Vienna, Vienna Secession, Vorticism, Vorticists, war cartoons, Wien, Wiener Werkstätte (Vienna Workshops), women's fashion, World War (1914-1918), Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957), Zang Tumb Tuuum, Zira Cigarettes
SPIRITS OF CHRISTMAS PAST, FROM THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY COLLECTION
• December 21, 2013 • 1 CommentPosted in American war propaganda, Anti-Nazi propaganda, Artists, children's books, Communism, Communist Party of the United States, Communist Party of the United States of America, Communists, donations, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, Great Britain, Great Depression, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., persuasive arts, political art, Popular Front, postcards, promotional materials, propaganda, propaganda arts, rare books and special collections library, Spanish Civil War, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Vicki Gold Levi, war propaganda, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War I, World War II, WWI, WWII
Tags: Adolf Hitler caricatures, Advertising art, Advertising cards, Advertsing art, American cultural imperialism, Anti-Capitalist propaganda, Axis, Benito Mussolini caricatures, Captain Tick Mouse, Children artists, Christmas, Coca-Cola Company, commercial art, Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA), Fortnun & Mason (firm), Franz Cizek, Great Depression, holidays, Interwoven stockings, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, Kate Greenaway Collection, Kris Kringle, Kunstgewerbeschule (Vienna), Matchbook covers, naughty and nice children, New Pioneer (magazine), Santa Claus, Santa Claus laundry soap, soft drinks, Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), St. Nicholas, St. Nick, stockings, The Coca-Cola Kid (film : 1985), Vicki Gold Levi Collection, war, war propaganda, William Gropper (1897-1977), World War (1914-1918)
FIU LITERATURE AND ART HISTORY STUDENTS, EUROPEAN DIPLOMATS, WOLFSONIAN & SHSA BOARD MEMBERS, AND A FAREWELL TO A WOLFSONIAN FELLOW ALL IN TWO DAYS!
• February 2, 2013 • 1 CommentPosted in Artists, Children's propaganda books, French consulate, Laurence Miller Collection, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., ocean liners, oceanliners, pochoirs, rare books and special collections library, school visits to The Wolfsonian, Spanish Civil War, student curators, Student exhibit, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Vintage postcards, VIP vistors, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World's fairs
Tags: Advertisements, Art Deco bindings, Art Nouveau, Arte rustica italiana, Board members, book bindings, calendars, caricatures, Chas Laborde (1886-1941), Christopher DeNoon, Consul generals, Coronation souvenirs, Crowns, Dams, Deputy consul generals, Deutsche Gedenkhalle, Dolar Cotton, Dutch Nieuwe Kunst, ephemera, Eric Gill (1882-1940), Exposicion universal de Barcelona, F. T. (Filippo Tommaso) Marinetti (1876-1944), Fascist Italy, Federal Writers' Project (FWP), Fortunato Depero (1892-1960), France, Futurism, Germany, Ghostland, Great Depression, heraldry, international expositions, Iron and steel, Italian futurists, Italy, Joseph Hémard (1880-1961), Kaiser Wilhelm II (Emperor of Germany), Leslie Sternlieb, lottery, Men at work, Nazi Germany, Netherlands, ocean liners, Pamela K. Harer, Pochoir plates, portraits, postcards, Professor Carmela McIntire, Professor Heller-Greenman, Public work projects, Puzzles, Queen Elizabeth II, Rural electrification, Sheet music covers, Soviet Union, Spanish Civl War (1936-1939), Steamsip Historical Society of America (SHSA), stencil works, The Christopher DeNoon Collection for the Study of New Deal Culture, TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority), Une ambassade francaise, Union Square, United Kingdom, vintage postcards, Works Progress Administration, World War (1914-1918), World War I, WPA, Zang Tuum Tuum
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