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Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade (VALB) photograph collection [graphic].

Title: Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade (VALB) photograph collection [graphic]. 1935-1969.

Contains miscellaneous photographs and negatives collected by VALB and used in their New York City offices. It consists predominantly of images of American volunteers in the Spanish Civil War, and includes portraits, group shots, combat scenes, and images of demonstrations and support activities in the United States.

ArchivalResource: 6.25 linear ft. (13 boxes)931 photographs : b&w ; 14 x 11 in. or smaller.154 photographs : negative, b&w ; 8 x 10 in. or smaller.

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International Workers Order. Records, 1930-1956 (bulk 1945-1951).

Title: Records, 1930-1956 (bulk 1945-1951).

The records contain clippings, correspondence, ephemera, legal documents, manuscripts, minutes, press releases, printed materials, and reports, arranged alphabetically. The material documents the political activities of the IWO and several of its constituent groups, notably the Jewish Peoples Fraternal Order (including Yiddish-language material), the New York State Department of Insurance case against the IWO, and the Ingram Case, a 1940's court case in which a black woman and her two sons were sentenced to death for the murder of a white man. IWO leaders represented include Max Bedacht (general secretary), Walter B. Garland, and Sam Milgrom (executive secretary). There is also an unpublished manuscript, "Jewish People's Fraternal Order of the International Workers Order" (1950, 35 pp.), by Lucy Davidowitz (later known as Lucy S. Dawidowicz), a critical history focusing on the JPFO's relationship with the Communist movement. Several photographs were removed to the library's NonPrint collection.

ArchivalResource: 1.0 linear ft. (1 box)

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White, David McKelvy, 1901-. Papers, 1937-1945 (bulk 1937-1939).

Title: Papers, 1937-1945 (bulk 1937-1939).

Collection is in part comprised of documents created in 1937 when White was a volunteer in Spain. Includes a photocopy of White's "Sketch for a Journal" about his experiences from his arrival in Spain through his participation in the Battle of Brunete (the original may be in the Sandor Voros Spanish Civil War Collection at Adelphi University) and Orders of the Day for the George Washington Battalion, the Fourth Machine Gun Company, and the Abraham Lincoln Battalion, as well as the July 1937 Order to Merge the Abraham Lincoln and George Washington Battalions. Correspondence dates from 1938 and onward, after White's return to the U.S., and includes letters from the mother of Philip Detro, a volunteer who died in Spain; letters from volunteers still in Spain, including Harry Hakam and Carl Geiser, who had been White's political commissar in the Fourth Machine Company; and letters from White's long distance Spanish foster son. Other papers include a small number of White's published and unpublished writings, including "We Who Pledge!" and "Spain and July 4th," about the politics of the Spanish Civil War, as well as flyers and programs promoting White's lectures. F.A.L.B. documents include letters to Phil Bard, White's predecessor, from volunteers in Spain (with a photograph of a group of Lincoln and Garibaldi Battalion members after battle); Bard's communication with volunteers' families; and a typescript report of a contentious meeting with the Confederated Spanish Societies. Other materials in the collection include letters from American volunteers in Spain to Ben Lederman, editor of the Beehive Review, forwarded by volunteer Joe Stone, including a letter from Ed Lending regarding Robert Steck, a volunteer imprisoned in Spain; and a poem by volunteer Leo Grachow.

ArchivalResource: 0.25 linear ft. (1 box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/476250061 View