- unitid
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{"value"=>"2836", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"MssCol 2836", "type"=>"local_call"}
- unitdate
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{"type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1937/1939", "value"=>"1937-1939"}
- date_inclusive_start
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1937
- date_inclusive_end
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1939
- keydate
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1937
- date_start
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1937
- date_end
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1939
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Spanish Child Welfare Association of America records"}
- physdesc
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"2.2 linear feet (3 boxes)"}], "supress_display"=>true}
- repository
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.</span> <div class=\"address\"> <span class=\"addressline\">Stephen A. Schwarzman Building</span> <span class=\"addressline\">Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788</span></div>"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"The Spanish Child Welfare Association was founded in New York City in 1937 for the purpose of raising funds to evacuate, feed and nurse children who were victims of the Spanish Civil War. It raised funds primarily by sponsoring exhibitions of drawings done by Spanish children and paintings by contemporary Spanish artists at art museums, colleges and art associations. Collection consists of correspondence and office records of the Association, and photographs. Correspondence concerns recruiting of members, arrangements for fund-raising exhibitions of drawings and paintings, publication of book about Spanish children's drawings, publicity, and condition of refugee children in Spain. Office records include minutes of meetings, memoranda, reports, membership lists, by-laws, and financial reports. Also, photographs of exhibitions of children's art."}
- langmaterial
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{"value"=>"Materials in English"}
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"<p>Spanish Child Welfare Association of America records, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library</p>"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Spanish Child Welfare Association of America", "type"=>"corpname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>The Spanish Child Welfare Association of America was founded in New York City in December of 1937 for the purpose of raising funds to help evacuate, feed and nurse Spanish children who were victims of the Spanish Civil War. It raised funds primarily through the sponsoring of exhibitions of drawings of Spanish children and paintings of contemporary Spanish artists at art museums, colleges and art associations. Its/aid funds were distributed in Spain by the American Friends Service Committee. The Association also published for sale a book, entitled <em render=\"underline\">They Still Draw Pictures</em> which contained an introduction by Aldous Huxley. Its staff included John A. Kingsbury (acting chairman), Irene Lewisohn (secretary and acting treasurer), Mary Carter Jones (executive secretary), Clara Bogart Burrage, Herbert Weissberger and, Jose A. Weissberger. Grace Abbot served as chairman of its technical advisory committee, and Claude G. Bowers, ambassador to Spain, as its honorary chairman.</p> <p>The collection consists of a file of correspondence arranged in name/subject order and office records interfiled under the organization's title, and under \"financial reports\". The correspondence is mainly that of Mmes. Lewisohn, Jones, Barrage, and Masers Kingsbury and Weissberger (Herbert and Jose A.). The correspondence concerns the recruiting of members, arrangements for fun-raising exhibitions of Spanish children's drawings, and paintings by contemporary Spanish artists, the publication of <em render=\"underline\">They Still Draw Pictures</em>, publicity, and the condition of refugee children in Spain. Included is correspondence with their European representative in Paris (Margaret Palmer). Office records include minutes of meetings, internal memoranda and reports, membership lists, by-laws and financial reports. There are present a few photographs of exhibitions of children's art. Correspondents include Grace Abbott, American Friends Service Committee, Claude G. Bowers, Van Wyck Brooks, Cleveland Museum of Art, Paul D. Cravath, Felix Frankfurter, Fannie Hurst, Aldous Huxley, Institute of Modern Art, Boston, Lewis Mumford, Oxford University Press, Margaret Palmer, Clarence E. Pickett, John F. Reich, Ruth Hanna Simms, and William Allen White.</p>"}
- processinfo
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{"type"=>"processing", "value"=>"<p>Accessioned by John Stinson, July 25, 1983</p>"}
- extent_statement
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2.2 linear feet (3 boxes)