Item 2 - Photographs taken in Spain

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AU NBAC N236-2

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Photographs taken in Spain

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  • c. 1936 (Creation)

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1 Refugee children south of France
2 Una Wilson, Mary Lowson, May McFarlane at a rest home, 40 miles from Madrid
3 Euzkadi Week May 31st to 6 June - with additional inscription 'week devoted to raising funds for Basques'
4 Andre Marty, French Villa at Benicasim
5 From the front - Spanish civil war (group of armed men standing and kneeling for photograph)
6 Photo postcard - group of people standing in front of Hotel Colon, Barcelona (10 Dec 1936): Mary Lowson, Aileen Palmer, May MacFarlane, John Fisher, Jack 'Blue' Barry, Agnes Hodgson, Una Wilson
7 Photo postcard - individual portrait, inscription on verso: 'Salud Jack Franklyn International Brigade '(17 Mar 1936)
8 Photo postcard - group of people standing in front of Hotel Colon, Barcelona (6 Dec 1936)
9 Barcelona Cathedral - view of damage to roof from inside
10 The Fish Market - with men clearing debris
11 Destroyed apartment buildings
12 Close up of a destroyed building, annotated as being a school
13 Australian nurses leave for Spain: Sisters Una Wilson, Mary Lowson, May McFarlane, Agnes Hodgson; Relief committee members Helen Baillie, Joyce Metcalf, Nettie Palmer, Len Fox, Bill Thomas, Bluey Howells.
14 'The new machine,' internal view of a factory
15 Collage of photographs and newsclippings on Spanish Civil War
16 Invitation to event "In honour of Mr and Mrs Arthur Howells who will speak on 'Experiences of child-refugee work in Spain'"

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      Digitised copies of photographs at http://hdl.handle.net/1885/733712348

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      Researcher informant Sep 2021 notes that newspaper photograph titled March past of the International Brigades
      (item number N236-2-15i, digitised at http://hdl.handle.net/1885/733712912) appears to show photographer David Robert Szymin / Seymour (alias CHIM).

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