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Highlight: During the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) children were evacuated from the war zones to colonies in
the war-free areas of Spain and in the south of France. Drawings by these children – most between the
to publicize the plight of the children and collect funds for more evacuations and assistance to the
Creator: Spanish Child Welfare Association of America
Abstract Or Scope: Avery's collection of Spanish children's drawings of the civil war consist of 153 drawings made by children aged 7 to 14 between the years 1936 and 1938. The drawings were willed to the Department of Art History and Archaeology of Columbia University by Martin Vogel, a lawyer, who died on May 20, 1938 at the age of 59. He made several bequests to Columbia University in a will dated March 16, 1938. From the date of this will and of his death, it is likely the drawings he purchased were those exhibited at Lord & Taylor's in February 1938. His name, however, does not appear among the patrons of the exhibition.

Highlight: Included are Reports of Five Seminars on the early development of children (1968-1972), A History
Creator: Children's Television Workshop
Abstract Or Scope: Included are Reports of Five Seminars on the early development of children (1968-1972), A History and Review of the First Year of Sesame Street (1970), and the first seven issues of "Sesame Street Magazine."

Highlight: Hillcrest Center for Children records, 1956-1975
Social work with children
Children -- Institutional care
Creator: Hillcrest Center for Children (Bedford Hills, N.Y.)
Abstract Or Scope: This collection documents the foundation and operation of the Hillcrest Center for Children, a foster care institution that cared for children in Bedford Hills, NY from 1956 to 1977.

Highlight: Children -- Middle West
Children -- Institutional care -- New York (State)
Runaway children
Creator: New York Juvenile Asylum
Abstract Or Scope: The collection is composed primarily of ledgers used in the operation of the New York Juvenile Asylum, a reception center, home, and placement agency for orphaned, abandoned, and impoverished children. The Asylum operated in Manhattan from 1853 until 1905 when it moved to a rural campus in Dobbs Ferry, New York. In 1920 the Asylum was renamed Children's Village. The collection provides copious information about the experience of poor and orphaned children, children sent West on "orphan trains," social work, and the home life and living arrangements of poor and immigrant New Yorkers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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