Spain -- History -- Civil War, 1936-1939
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 20 Collections and/or Records:
Joan Alzina papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 2082
Overview:
Papers of Joan Alzina, Catalan soldier in the Spanish Civil War’s Republican Army, 24th Army Group, Group Logistics, 3rd Section. Includes seven notebooks documenting Alzina’s service in the army, his time as a prisoner at Navalpino, and his tenure as a prison guard for a mental hospital at Alcalá de Henares, Madrid for other Republican prisoners. Alzina’s notebooks written during the war include uncensored drafts of letters to family members. Also included is a drawing by Alzina of Mickey...
Dates:
1937-1941
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Joan Alzina papers
Jaime Arando correspondence
Collection
Call Number: MS 2060
Overview:
Seventy-two letters from Jaime Arando to his father, Francisco Arando, dating from 1937-1940. Jaime Arando was active on the Ebro Front, spent time in a concentration camp, and later joined the National Army.
Dates:
1937-1940
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Jaime Arando correspondence
Hanson Weightman Baldwin papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 54
Summary:
The papers consist of correspondence, writings, subject files, research materials, publicity for books, and other papers of Hanson W. Baldwin, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and military affairs reporter and editor for the New York Times from 1929-1968, and editor for Reader's Digest, 1968-1976. The papers relate to Baldwin's work and interests as a journalist and author and include correspondence with many high-ranking...
Dates:
1900-1988
Ralph Bates Papers
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 1013
Overview:
The Papers contain correspondence with literary colleagues and family, most 1960s-1990s; drafts and reviews of novels and short stories, 1960s-2000; writings of others about Bates, most 1980s-1990s; audiocassettes of lectures by Bates about literature, 1960s-1970s, and interviews with him about his life and writings, 1980s; personal papers, including biographical information and legal documents, 1930s-1970s; a few photographs and documents concerning his International Brigade service during...
Dates:
1930-2002, bulk 1960-1995
Argimiro Bosch letters
Collection
Call Number: MS 2077
Overview:
Thirty-one letters written by Argimiro Bosch, a Republican soldier in the Spanish Civil War, to his wife, Angelita Talens Bo, and his family. The letters document Bosch's time as a prisoner in Valencia.
Dates:
1940-1940
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Argimiro Bosch letters
Josephine and Antonio Bouzas papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 2112
Overview:
The Josephine and Antonio Bouzas papers contain photographs, legal documents, and correspondence documenting the history of the Josephine and Antonio Bouzas family and their experiences during the Spanish Civil War.
Dates:
1919-2019
Louise Crane and Victoria Kent papers
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 473
Overview:
The Louise Crane and Victoria Kent Papers document the personal and professional lives of Louise Crane, Victoria Kent, and Josephine Boardman Crane, and consist of correspondence, subject files, personal papers, financial documents, clippings, photographs, and slides. The papers provide evidence of the Crane family's philanthropic work and involvement in a number of cultural associations, including the China Institute in America, Harpsichord Music Society, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Museum...
Dates:
1809-1998
Charles Andrews Fenton papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 206
Overview:
The papers consist almost entirely of bibliographical material, newspaper magazine articles, excerpts from books and news dispatches collected for his proposed work on American literary approaches to the Spanish Civil War. There is also a small amount of correspondence (1954-1960). Important correspondents are Daniel Aaron, Claude G. Bowers, Granville Hicks, Rolfe Humphries, Mark Schorer and F. Jay Taylor.
Dates:
1954-1960
María Pilar Fort Trigo diary
Collection
Call Number: MS 2079
Overview:
Diary of María Pilar Fort Trigo, a woman from Valencia, Spain, covering 1936 October through 1938 January, and lacking 1937 December. The diary describes the everyday life of a Spanish woman during the Spanish Civil War and discusses gender relations in Spain and Fort Trigo's engagement to a lawyer, Enrique Jorro Vives. Also includes Fort Trigo's obituary.
Dates:
October 1936-January 1938
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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María Pilar Fort Trigo diary
André Landín correspondence
Collection
Call Number: MS 2081
Overview:
136 letters between Spanish Nationalist André Landín and his family members, 1936-1946. Letters document Landín's service in the Spanish Civil War, his time in the Spanish army, his service in Russia with the Azul Division, and his assignment to the Army Ministry after the war. The bulk of the correspondence is between Landín and his wife, Marichrista Landín.
Dates:
1936-1946
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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André Landín correspondence
Ramon Llado correspondence
Collection
Call Number: MS 2102
Overview:
Eleven letters between Ramon Llado, a Republican soldier in the Spanish Civil War, and his family. Seven letters are from Ramon to his wife, Concepcion. Three letters are from Concepcion to Ramon, and one letter is to Ramon from his sister, Dionisia, and his brother-in-law.
Dates:
1938-1939
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Ramon Llado correspondence
David Low papers
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 96
Overview:
The David Low Papers contain correspondence, manuscripts of books and articles, illustrated lectures, letters to the editor, speeches, radio and television scripts, published drawings, Christmas and menu cards, and personal papers that document aspects of the life and career of David Low.
Dates:
1897-1985, bulk 1920-1963
Mas Yebra family correspondence
Collection
Call Number: MS 2101
Overview:
Correspondence of the Mas Yerba family, a prominent political family in Barcelona. The correspondence includes one hundred thirty-three letters exchanged among the family members and their associates during the Spanish Civil War. Also includes a small amount of the family's legal and financial papers.
Dates:
1936-1940
Puertes family correspondence on the Spanish Civil War
Collection
Call Number: MS 2059
Overview:
The collection consists of correspondence from Republican soldiers during the Spanish Civil War. Most were written by Isidoro Puertes, a soldier who served with the 4th Company, of the 4th Battalion of the 225 "Brigada Mixta." Antonio Puertes, probably Isidoro's cousin, served with him. Letters, sometimes written by both men jointly, were sent to their family members.
Dates:
1937-1939
Russian state military archives collection
Collection
Call Number: MS 1670
Overview:
The collection consists of photocopies of documents in the Russian State Military Archive (Rossiskii Gosudarstvennyi Voennyi Arkhiv) in Moscow. The documents relate to German-Soviet military and economic relations between 1918 and 1941, and the use of Soviet tanks in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939.
Dates:
1918-1941
Joaquim Sancho papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 2080
Overview:
Papers of Joaquim Sancho, a Spanish Civil War soldier fighting for the Republican cause. The bulk of the collection comprises Sancho's correspondence, spanning from the period of his military service in the Regular Spanish Army, No. 55, VIII Grupo and the 4th Company, 103rd Mixed Brigade, through his time as a prisoner in a Nationalist concentration camp. Before Sancho’s capture, he typically wrote in Catalan, and during his capture he wrote in Spanish. In addition to correspondence, the...
Dates:
1936-1945
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Joaquim Sancho papers
Lluís Baró Segimón correspondence
Collection
Call Number: MS 2078
Overview:
Forty-eight letters between Lluís Baró Segimón and his wife, Pilar Val de Baró. Lluís Baró Segimón fought with the Republican 27th Division during the Spanish Civil War, and postmarks indicate that Lluís wrote from the front lines of the war to Pilar in Morell, Tarragona.
Dates:
1938-1939
Spanish Civil War Collection
Collection
Call Number: MS 2058
Overview:
The collection documents society and events during the Spanish Civil War. Formats include magazines and comic books, handbills, pamphlets, broadsides, manuscripts, and toys. Both Nationalist and Republican perspectives are represented in the materials. Materials date between 1936-2011, with the bulk between 1936-1943.
Dates:
bulk 1936-2011
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Spanish Civil War Collection
Ernst Toller papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 498
Overview:
The major part of the papers is made up of a nearly complete collection of Ernst Toller's plays printed in German and in English translation, together with copies of his articles (1917-1939) which were gathered from newspapers and periodicals from many countries by John M. Spalek, editor of Toller's works. Also assembled by Spalek and added to the papers are articles, books, and dissertations (1922-1972) about Toller in both German and English. The personal papers stem from the last five years...
Dates:
1917-1978, bulk 1933-1939
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Ernst Toller papers
War poster collection
Collection
Call Number: MS 671
Overview:
The collection consists of posters published in nations involved in World War I, 1914-1918, the Spanish Civil War, and World War II, 1939-1945. Great Britain, the United States, France, Germany, Italy, Russia, Canada, Australia, Ireland and other nations are represented through posters depicting such diverse topics as recruitment, enlistment, conservation, war loans, civilian service, home relief, foreign relief and propaganda messages. Posters issued by government agencies, social...
Dates:
1914-1946, bulk 1914-1918
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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War poster collection