A Wolfsonian Commemoration of the opening of the Suez Canal on this date, 1869
• November 17, 2016 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1915, 1930s, airplanes, Balochistan, British Army, collectors, colonial propaganda, colonial tourism, colonialism, donations, First World War (1914-1918), Francis Xavier Luca, Frederic A. Sharf, gifts, Great Britain, India, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, library donors, Middle East, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., Photograph albums, photography, postcards, propaganda, rare books and special collections library, War Photography, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War (1914-1918), World War I, WWI
Tags: Abu-Sueir (airforce base), Alexandria (Egypt), ANZAC, Australian soldiers, British Empire, British occupation of Egypt, Canals, cruisers, Egypt, Ferdinand de Lesseps, First World War (1914-1918), Great Britain, H.M.S. Hampshire, Himilayah (auxilary cruiser), New Zealand soldiers, Port Said (Egypt), RAF, Royal Air Force, Suez Canal, warships, WWI
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
PARASAILING, PARAKITING, AND PARACHUTING FOR THRILLS AND SURVIVAL: THE WWI EXPERIENCE FROM THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY COLLECTION
• August 14, 2014 • Leave a CommentPosted in airplanes, donations, gifts, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., propaganda, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War I, WWI
Tags: aerial “dogfights”, air war, “Flying Circus”, British Royal Flying Corp, daredevils, Delray Beach, Erich Löwenhardt (1897-1918), European war (1914-1918), First World War, flying aces, Manfred von Richthofen (the “Red Baron” 1892-1918), Military aviation, observation balloon crews, parachutes, parachuting, parakiting, parasailing, pilots, Western Front, World War I aces, WWI
DAZZLED! CAMOUFLAGE DESIGNED TO CONFUSE RATHER THAN HIDE: SOME WWI EXAMPLES FROM THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY COLLECTION
• August 6, 2014 • 2 CommentsPosted in automobile design, cars, ocean liners, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, wartime Britain, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War I, WWI
Tags: “Drab Painting”, battleships, Blast (Vorticist manifesto), Burlington House, Camouflage, Cubism, Dazzle Painting, Doré Gallery, E. G. Fuller, Edward Wadsworth (1889-1949), Futurism, merchant marine, naval campaigns, Norman Wilkinson (1878-1971), Omega Workshops, Rebel Art Centre, Royal Academy of Arts (Piccadilly London), Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, ships, submarine warfare, the Great War, Troopships, U-Boats, Union Castle Line, Vorticism, Vorticists, warships, World War I, WWI, Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957)
ART BASEL AND OCEAN LINER AFICIONADO TOURS OF THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY AND A GLIMPSE INTO THE FUTURE
• December 13, 2013 • 1 CommentPosted in book art, collectors, colonial propaganda, colonialism, Communism, Communists, Constructivism, cruise ships, displays, donations, Dr. Laurence Miller, Dutch Art Nouveau, Ethiopia, Far East, Fascism, Futurism, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, Great Britain, Hamburg-American Line, international expositions, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, John Heartfield (1891-1968), Laurence Miller Collection, leftist artists, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, Nazi propaganda, Nazism, Nieuwe Kunst, ocean liners, oceanliners, passenger ships, persuasive arts, Photograph albums, photography, pochoirs, political art, postcards, posters, promotional materials, propaganda, propaganda arts, propaganda posters, rare books and special collections library, Russia, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, totalitarian, VIP vistors, war propaganda, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War I, World's fairs, WWI
Tags: Anti-Communist Propaganda, anti-Fascist propaganda, anti-Nazi propaganda, Arbeiter-Illustrierte Zeitung (periodical), Art Basel, Art Nouveau, Asama Maru (steamship), Battleship Potemkin (film : 1925), Blaise Cendrars (1887-1961), calendars, Chatsworth House, Chemical warfare, Christopher Kyte, cruise line industry, Crystal Palace Exhibition (1851 : London), Cunard, Dan Lotten, designers, Duilio (steamship), Empire Welland (troopship), family photographs, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (1876-1944), First World War, Fortunato Depero (1892-1960), Gas masks, George G. Sharp, German design reform, Giulio Cesare (steamship), graphic art, Grim Reaper, Hamburg-Amerika Linie, Hibiya Shrine (Japan), Hyde Park (London), Illumination, Italian Futurism, Japan, Jeff Maklin, Jim Lida, John Heartfield (1891-1968), La Prose du Transsibérien et de La Petite Jehanne de France, library visitors, Maritime artists, Museum buildings, Naval architects, Nieuwe Kunst, Normandie (Steamship), NYK Line, ocean liner aficionados, ocean liners, Odessa Steps, Owen Jones (1809-1874), Patria (3) (steamship), photograph albums, Photomontage, postage stamps, postcards, promised gifts, propaganda, Raoul Cenisi (1912-1991), robots, Rossia (steamship), Russian Constructivism, S.S. Nieuw Amsterdam (steamship), Saturnia, Saturnia (steamship), Sergei Eisenstein (1898-1948), Sharf Associate Librarian Rochelle Pienn, shoes, Sir Joseph Paxton (1803-1865), Skeletons, Sonia Delaunay (1885-1979), Stanley Haviland, Stephen Card, Theatre costume design, Theodoor Willem Nieuwenhuis (1866-1951), Thomas Cassidy, Tullio Crali (1910-2000), Victorian England, vultures, watercolors, Weddings, WWI
CARTOONS FOR THE CAUSE: COMMUNIST CARTOONS FROM THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY
• December 4, 2013 • 1 CommentPosted in rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: Aesop Said So, blue collar workers, British Arts & Crafts Movement, Capitalists, caricatures, cartoons, Class struggle, Clive Weed, Communism, Communist Party of the United States of America, Communists, Comrade Gulliver, CPUSA, George Grosz (1893-1959), Giacomo Patri (1898-1978), Great Depression, Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), illustrators, John Pierpoint Morgan (1837-1913), Karl Liebknecht (1871-1919), Karl Marx (1818-1883), Karl Marx’ ‘Capital’ in Pictures, Linocuts, lithographs, Lucienne Bloch (1909-1999), National Socialism, Nazis, Robert Miner, Rockwell Kent (1882-1971), Socialism, Socialists, Soviet Union, Spartakus uprising (1919), Stock Market Crash (October 1929), The Mirrors of Wall Street, Tim Benson, Top hats, totalitarianism, Walter Crane (1845-1915), white collar workers, William Gropper (1897-1977), WWI, WWII
ART, WAR, AND REGENERATION: TOBY’S ROOM AND THE WOLFSONIAN BOOK CLUB
• January 8, 2013 • 2 CommentsPosted in Artists, avant-garde aesthetics, Futurism, Great Britain, leftist artists, propaganda, veterans, war propaganda, wartime Britain, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, women, World War I, WWI
Tags: Art and Medicine, Art and propaganda, Art and war, C. R. W. (Christopher Richard Wynne) Nevinson (1889-1946), Censorship, Facial injury records, Futurism, George Grosz (1893-1959), Henry Tonks (1862-1937), Home front, landscapes, Lydia Lopez, No Man's Land, Pat Barker, Paul Nash (1889-1946), Queen's Hospital in Sidcup, Slade School of Fine Art (University College of London), Soldiers, surgeons, Thoby’s Room (1922), Toby’s Room (a review), Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), Vorticism, war artists, Wilhelm Heinrich Otto Dix (1891-1969), Wolfsonian Book Club, women authors, World War (1914-1918), WWI
VISIT TO WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY BY ITALIAN CURATOR, SILVIA BARISIONE
• October 30, 2009 • Leave a CommentPosted in Coral Castle, curator, Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Italian design, Silvia Barisione, Wolfsoniana
Tags: Bruno Munari (1907-1998), exhibitions, National Endowment for the Arts, postcards, vintage postcards, World War I, WWI
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