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Spain. Ejército Popular de la República. Brigada Internacional, XV. Photographic Unit. Fifteenth International Brigade Photographic Unit photographs [graphic].

Title: Fifteenth International Brigade Photographic Unit photographs [graphic]. 1937-1938.

The collection consists of 1,832 images taken by the Unit from August 1937 to September 1938 and captures the activities of the battalions that made up the 15th International Brigade including the American Lincoln and Washington Battalions (commonly known as the Abraham Lincoln Brigade); the British Battalion; the Canadian MacKenzie-Papineau Battalion; the Dimitrov Battalion (volunteers from Yugoslavia); and the 24th Spanish Battalion (volunteers from Cuba). The images capture the daily life of the volunteers in combat, in the camps, and in the towns, villages, and across the rugged terrain where the Brigade trained and participated in the fighting. In addition, the collection documents ambulances and medical treatment, political assemblies, congresses, celebrations, the everyday activities of the Spanish people and the destruction caused by the fascist aerial bombardment. Among the many volunteers pictured are Alvah Bessie, Archie Brown, Joe Dallet, Robert Merriman, Edwin Rolfe, Saul Wellman, Milt Wolff, John Tisa, and George Watt. Also included are images of visiting dignitaries, journalists and observers including Earl Browder, American military attache Stephen Fuqua, Robert Minor, Ernest Hemingway, Langston Hughes, Meyer Levin and Joseph North. There is also an image of presentation of a flag by Juventud Socialista Unificada (Unified Socialist Youth of the Spanish Communist Party).

ArchivalResource: ca. 2,000 photoprints and negatives : b&w.

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