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War map restoration of Juan Negrín documentary collection

The Fundación Juan Negrín will restore of cartographic material of the person that was Defense Ministre during the years of Spanish Civil War. This material is compound by hundred of war and campain maps, mainly of the Battle of Ebro. They are maps elaborated by Sección de Operaciones del Ejército Republicano that show the distribution of troops and position of different fronts. Painted by ink, formats are odd.

By now,  the Cabildo de Gran Canaria is doing the restoration and digitalization of documentary collection. This entity has been which, with the granddaughter of  Negrín, Carmen Negrín, has worked in the recovery of a documentary collection about 150.000 documents, majority of them unpublished of researchers. 

More information in the published new by Fundación Juan Negrín (link), by Europa Press (link) and by Noticanarias (link).