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Series I: Cataloged correspondence
Series II: General office files
Series III: Organization minutes and reports, 1936-1941, undated
Series IV: Affairs
Series V: Embargo files
Series VI: Musicians' Committee
Series VII: Negro Peoples' Committee, 1938-1939
Series VIII: Organizations
Series IX: Universities and Colleges
Series XI: Social Workers
Series XII: Tours
Series XIII: American Relief Ship
Series XV: Photographs, 1931-1956, bulk 1937-1939

Spanish Refugee Relief Association Records, 1935-1957

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Series III: Organization minutes and reports, 1936-1941, undated

Series III contains meeting minutes and reports related to organizational governance, primarily focusing on the Spanish Refugee Relief Campaign's Executive Board, which was chaired by Roger Nash Baldwin of the American Civil Liberties Union. There are also reports from the organization's accounting firm's monthly financial audits dating from March 1937 through January 1939. In addition to routine governance and organizational strategy, the records in this series document the impact of the the Joint Anti-Fascist Relief Committee's March 1940 departure from the organization following a conference in Mexico City earlier that month.


Box 45 (C1) Folder 1 Bookkeepers Reports, 1940 January-1941 January

Box 45 (C1) Folder 2 By-Laws, 1939

Box 45 (C1) Folder 3-4 Department of State Reports, 1937 August-1938 December, 2 folders

Box 45 (C1) Folder 5-8 Executive Board Correspondence, 1938 July-1940 December, 4 folders

Box 45 (C1) Folder 9-11 Executive Board Minutes, 1938 January-1940 December, 3 folders

1939 folder only contains 1 report summarizing Relief Campaign expenditures for 1939.


Box 46 (C2) Folder 1 Executive Board--Medical Bureau and North American Committee to Aid Spanish Democracy, 1938 January-1939 October

Box 46 (C2) Folder 2 Executive Board-Spanish Relief Campaign, 1938 July 13, 1939 November-1940 June

Box 46 (C2) Folder 3 Executive Board Committee, 1937 January-December, 1940 March 6-30

Box 46 (C2) Folder 4-7 Executive Committee Minutes, 1936 November-1937 December, 1939 March-September, 4 folders

Box 46 (C2) Folder 8 Executive Secretary's Reports, 1936 December, 1940 December

Box 46 (C2) Folder 9 Finance Committee Reports and Minutes, 1937 March-1938 January

Box 46 (C2) Folder 10 Medical Bureau Steering Committee minutes, 1936 December-1937 October

Box 46 (C2) Folder 11 North American Committee to Aid Spanish Democracy Minutes, 1936 November-December

Box 46 (C2) Folder 12 Purchasing Committee Minutes, 1937 January-1938 June


Box 47 (C3) Folder 1-4 Accountants' Reports, 1937 March-July, September-December, 1938 January-February, April, June-November, 1939 January, 4 folders

Box 47 (C3) Folder 5 Miscellaneous Reports, circa 1938

"Revised Statistical Summary of Shipments, January 16-June 22," "Advertising Promotion Report," and "Report on Trip to West Virginia with Ambulance."