Spanish Children's Drawings of the Civil War, bulk 1936-1939

Series II: Papers

The collection contains a small collection of contextual papers about the support efforts for children affected by the Spanish Civil War (which included the creation of a program to collect the children's drawings) as well as papers about later exhibitions of the drawings.


Box 185 Folder 1 Mirbal [Journal] , circa 1937

One issue of Mirbal that includes an feature on Mirbal's Children's Club and the drawings.


Box 1 Folder 1 Clubs Infantils Mirbal [Mirbal's Children's Club], circa 1937

2 items : Stamp Booklets


Box 1 Folder 2 Comité international de coordination et d'information pour l'aide à l'Espagne républicaine, 1937-1938

Reports and accounts from the Office International Pour L'Enfance


Box 1 Folder 3 National Joint Committee, 1937

Support Appeal titled "Famine in Eastern Spain"; 3 "Foster Parents" account letters from N.J.C. in Puigcerda.


Box 1 Folder 4 North American Committee, circa 1937-1939

Support Appeal titled "Feliz Navidad y Ano Nuevo"


Box 1 Folder 5 The Spanish Child Welfare Association of America for the American Friends Service Committee (Quakers), 1939 March


Box 1 Folder 6 Service Workers to Aid Endangered Children, ca. 1937-1939

Postcards featuring drawings by the Spanish Children.


Box 1 Folder 7 White, Allen William. "Charing in a Nightmare: The Children of Spain Are Calling." Survey Graphic, Reprint, Vol.XXVII, No. 8, 1938 August


Box 185 Folder 2 Newspaper Clippings, 1939

American newpaper articles about the Spanish Children's drawings.


Box 1 Folder 8 Miscellaneous background material, 1940-1977

Letter from Editor of the Magazine Social Work Today to the Social Workers Committee to Aid Spanish Chidren regarding returning a drawing loaned to the magazine by "Mrs. Mahler" (March 7, 1940); Old item/classificaiton lists by Herbert Weissberer (undated); Handwritten note by George R. Collins (1977); Caperucita roja Estrella, editorial para la juventud (serie cuentecillos) (undated)


Box 1 Folder 9 Exhibitions of Spanish Children's Drawings, 1986-1998

Includes printed material, some correspondence, catalog, and copies of newspaper clippings for various displays of the Spanish Children's drawings including for a show at the Spanish Institute in 1986 and Columbia's Wallach Gallery in 1998.