Material is unprocessed. Please contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.
This collection consists of a box of children art sketches, penmanship notebooks and classwork of Czech school children Madilene Veverka worked with, apparently gathered during her time in Prague.
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Material is unprocessed. Please contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); M. Madilene Veverka collection on Primary Education in Czechoslovakia; Box and Folder; Bakhmeteff Archive, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.
There is also a group of books owned by Dr. Veverka (and given to us by her great niece, Anna Pehoushek), cataloged individually with a note "From the library of M. Madilene Veverka."
Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Dr. Madilene Veverka was an accomplished educator and a member of a Czech immigrant family that homesteaded in Colorado. She studied at Columbia Teacher's College under John Dewey and later received her PhD from the Charles University in Prague. Loyalty and devotion to her Czech homeland motivated her extensive efforts to distribute information and mobilize Czechs in Los Angeles to participate in relief efforts during the 1940s in response to the Nazi atrocities that took place in Czechoslovakia at that time.