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MS 370 Small collections of papers relating to Basque child refugees


MS 370/1  Poster advertising a Basque Children’s concert, c.1937

Former references:

A3044

Size:

1 folder


MS 370/2  Papers of Ana Maria Sanchez: photographs, 1930s, memorial card, 2006

Former references:

A3045

Size:

1 folder


MS 370/3  Photographs mainly relating to children staying at Cambria House, Caerleon, South Wales, from the collection of Josefina Savery, 1937-46, colour photograph of reunion.

Former references:

A3046

Size:

1 folder


MS 370/4  Photographs of Maestra Rita Gomez Mateo, from her son Gerald Hoare, including at Stoneham camp, 1930s, message from Gerald Hoare, Membership Secretary of the Basque Children ‘37 Association UK concerning his mother, c.2006-7

Former references:

A3047, A4145

Size:

2 folders


MS 370/5  Gifts given to Pilar Magdalena (née Vasca) while at Hutton Hall, including female dolls, purse depicting bull fighting and flamenco, cloth, tee shirt, castanets, tambourine and children’s books.

Former references:

A3049

Size:

1 box


MS 351/6  Group photograph of seven Basque refugee girls, including Victoria Dominguez, taken in a field with houses in the background, n.d. 1930s

Former references:

A4005

Size:

2 boxes


MS 370/7  Volume ‘A concise history of the Basque Children’s Camp, Southampton, 1937' compiled by Richard James Sillence and John Henry Sillence, Coxford, Southampton, volunteer workers at the camp; small wooden table or stool with the words “Basque chicos, Hazeldene, Hull, 1937-8' carved into the top

Former references:

A4010

Size:

1 volume and 1 stool


MS 370/8  Papers of the Navarro Alonso family, c.1935-49

Correspondence; souvenir concert programmes for ‘Spanish’ events; black and white photographs and postcards, mostly showing groups of children, and some adults, many in Spanish national dress; two photograph albums; scrap book

Former references:

A4110

Size:

2 files, 1 scrapbook


MS 370/9  Photographs of Basque child refugees: modern copies

Former references:

A4111

Size:

1 folder


MS 370/10  Photographs of Pili Diaz, 1938-42: modern copies

Former references:

A4112

Size:

1 folder


MS 370/11  78rpm records of popular Spanish songs and performances by the Basque Children’s Choir

Former references:

A4113

Size:

.5 box


MS 370/12  Copies of photographs and a letter relating of a member of the crew of HMS Echo, 1936, involved in the rescue of Spanish refugees

Former references:

A4115

Size:

1 folder


MS 370/13  Thirty nine portraits of Basque child refugees by R.Murry, 1939

Former references:

A4123

Size:

1 large folder


MS 370/14  Memoir of Rafael de Barrutia: ‘Basque Children’s Camp: Vivencias de un niños vasco evacuado en Mayo de 1937', 2012

Former references:

A4146

Size:

1 folder


MS 370/15  Papers relating to the Basque Children of ‘37 Association UK commemoration in 2007 in Southampton and Eastleigh, 2003-8

Former references:

A4147

Size:

2 folders


MS 370/16  Transcript of the interview of Mrs Josefina Stubbs née Antolin, for the Los Niños oral history project; colour photographs of Mrs Stubbs

Former references:

A4148

Size:

1 folder

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