Banner image above: Pamphlet by Conrado W. Massaguer, Havana, 1930. Vicki Gold Levi Collection, The Wolfsonian–FIU.
The Wolfsonian–FIU is a museum, library, and research center that uses objects to illustrate the persuasive power of art and design, to explore what it means to be modern, and to tell the story of social, historical, and technological changes that have transformed our world. The collection comprises approximately 180,000 objects from the 1850s to the 1950s—the height of the Industrial Revolution through the aftermath of the Second World War—in a variety of media including furniture; industrial-design objects; works in glass, ceramics, and metal; rare books; periodicals; ephemera; works on paper; paintings; textiles; and medals.
The Wolfsonian–FIU includes rare photographs, postcards, magazines, advertisements, posters, sheet music covers, and other materials from pre-1959 Cuba. In particular, the Vicki Gold Levi Collection of graphic arts materials and vintage photographs documents the U.S.-Cuba tourist trade and cultural exchange from the 1920s to the 1950s. The digital collection can be explored here.