Amazing Grace
• February 15, 2018 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, collectors, donations, gifts, interns, library donors, memorabilia, museums, ocean liners, oceanliners, Panama Canal, passenger ships, promotional materials, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War (1939-1945), World War II, WWII
Tags: airlines, Ambrose (lightship), Brochures, cocktail stirrers, cruise lines, cruise ships, deck plans, Elise Grace Holloway, FIU History Graduate Student Researcher, Genevieve Rossin, glassware, Grace Line, Jones-White Act, luggage labels, matchcovers, menus, Pan-American Grace Airways, Panagra, Panama Canal, playing cards, porcelain, Promotional materials, Prudential Line, Santa Clara (Steamship), Santa Lucia (cargo ship), Santa Paula (cargo ship), Santa Rosa (cargo ship), silverware, Souvenirs, swizzle sticks, Thomas C. Ragan, Troopships, W. R. Grace & Company, William Grace Holloway III, World War (1939-1945)
Unhappy Anniversary: The Wolfsonian Library Commemorates the September 1, 1939 German Invasion of Poland
• September 1, 2016 • Leave a CommentPosted in American war propaganda, Anti-Nazi propaganda, graphic arts, graphic designers, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., propaganda, Second World War (1939-1945), Soviet Union, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War (1939-1945), World War II
Tags: Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), Antonio Arias Bernal (1914-1960), Blitzkrieg, Francis Xavier Luca, Hermann Wilhelm Göring (1893-1946), Joseph Stalin (1879-1953), Martijn F. Lecoultre, Nazi Germany, Phoney war, Poland, Sitzkrieg, Soviet Union, World War (1939-1945), World War II
Paris Liberated on This Day in History: A Wolfsonian Library Reflection
• August 25, 2016 • Leave a CommentPosted in Anti-Nazi propaganda, Artists, book art, children's books, donations, Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, graphic arts, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., Pamela K. Harer, portfolios, rare books and special collections library, Second World War (1939-1945), war propaganda, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War (1939-1945), World War II
Tags: Animals in art, Antonio Arias Bernal (1914-1960), Children in art, Children's propaganda books, Eiffel Tower, Eugene Delacroix's "liberty Leading the People" (1830), French Resistance, liberation of Paris (1944), Martijn F. Lecoultre, Paris, parodies, Philippe Pétain (1856-1951), Pierre Laval (1883-1945), playing cards, portfolios, Tanks, World War (1939-1945), World War II
A FEW DONATIONS MADE IN MEMORY OF GINGER LEFF (JUNE 23, 1922-OCT. 24, 2011)
• December 3, 2011 • Leave a CommentPosted in donations, gifts, library donors, political art, propaganda, propaganda arts, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, women, World War II, WWII
Tags: Cathy Leff, CIA, E. Simms Campbell (1906-1971), Ginger (Rose Ethel) Leff (1922-2011), Ginger Leff, Glamour, Glamour Girls of 1943 (film), Lucille Ball, Manhattan Project, museum directors, OSS, U.S. government Office of War Information, WAACS, war work, women, Women's Auxiliary Army Corps, World War (1939-1945)
A TRIBUTE TO THE DUTCH RESISTANCE
• February 25, 2011 • 4 CommentsPosted in Pamela K. Harer, persuasive arts, propaganda, propaganda arts, Steve Heller, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War II
Tags: Barry University students, Charles L. McCartney, Ellen and Louis Wolfson III, Francis Xavier Luca, Jr., Katherine Orfanedes McCartney, Lisa Jeffery, Mitchell Wolfson, Occupied territories, The Netherlands, World War (1939-1945)
VOTE FOR YOUR FAVORITE WWII POSTER DESIGN (50 TO CHOOSE FROM)
• October 8, 2009 • 1 CommentPosted in American war propaganda, Artists for Victory, posters, stickers, Wolfsonian library, WWII
Tags: Poster stamps, posters, World War (1939-1945)
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