Catalogue Number
NMLH.1993.40
Object Name
Poster
Title
COMPREU SEGELLS PRO INFANCA 1936-1937
Place
Spain
People
Children
Events
War & Spanish Civil War
Date
1937
Creator(s)
Description
A red poster with a white border featuring an illustration of two children's heads on a white heart. Text underneath reads "COMPREU SEGELLS PRO INFANCIA 1936-1937" (BUY STAMPS FOR CHILDREN). This poster encourages people to buy the charity stamps that were on sale during the Spanish Civil War in order to help 'Basque' child refugees. It was designed by Eugenio Fernández Granell a surrealist poet, writer, and painter, whose designs feature on multiple posters during the period surrounding the Spanish Civil War.
