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Actions	Poster - Spanish Civil War: They face famine in Spain - They need clothes Remove from selection Add to selection TitlePoster - Spanish Civil War: They face famine in Spain - They need clothes ReferencePOSTER/EVT/SPAIN/0048 Date n.d. Scope and ContentBlack background with illustration of a starving child wrapped in a blanket. The text above reads: They face famine in Spain. They need clothes. The text below reads: Winter relief urgently needed. National Joint Committee for Spanish Relief. The illustration is signed by Felicity Ashbee. On the rear there is a handwritten notice reading - Spain needs milk. Leave a tin on your way home from shopping Extent1 poster Physical descriptionDimensions (WxH): 51cm x 76cm. Paper. Colour LanguageEnglish Archival historyFelicity Ashbee (1913- 2008) was born in Chipping Camden and was living in Kent when she designed a set of posters for Spain. She was a member of the Communist party and involved in the Aid for Spain campaign. The posters were designed to go up in London tube stations but were banned as being too political. She was in later life a dedicated community activist in west London. The posters were exhibited at the inauguration of the Echoes of Spain Mosaic which was installed under the Westway on Portobello Road in west London in 2006. Persons keywordAshbee, Felicity SubjectSpanish Civil War (1936-1939), Children, Famine, Relief work Conditions governing accessOpen Levelfile Normal locationAA Posters Drawer 17 - Spain Folder 2 (Room 30)

TitlePoster - Spanish Civil War: They face famine in Spain - They need clothes

ReferencePOSTER/EVT/SPAIN/0048

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Scope and ContentBlack background with illustration of a starving child wrapped in a blanket. The text above reads: They face famine in Spain. They need clothes. The text below reads: Winter relief urgently needed. National Joint Committee for Spanish Relief. The illustration is signed by Felicity Ashbee. On the rear there is a handwritten notice reading - Spain needs milk. Leave a tin on your way home from shopping

Extent1 poster

Physical descriptionDimensions (WxH): 51cm x 76cm. Paper. Colour

LanguageEnglish

Archival historyFelicity Ashbee (1913- 2008) was born in Chipping Camden and was living in Kent when she designed a set of posters for Spain. She was a member of the Communist party and involved in the Aid for Spain campaign. The posters were designed to go up in London tube stations but were banned as being too political. She was in later life a dedicated community activist in west London. The posters were exhibited at the inauguration of the Echoes of Spain Mosaic which was installed under the Westway on Portobello Road in west London in 2006.

Persons keywordAshbee, Felicity

SubjectSpanish Civil War (1936-1939), Children, Famine, Relief work

Conditions governing accessOpen

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Normal locationAA Posters Drawer 17 - Spain Folder 2 (Room 30)

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