Robert Reed: Northwest Volunteers Research Project Records 1930-1995

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Robert Reed: Northwest Volunteers Research Project Records 1930-1995

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Robert Reed was a veteran of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, who lived for many years in the Seattle area. In the late 1970s, with the help of fellow veteran Oiva Halonen, he undertook a research project to document the lives of Lincoln Brigade volunteers who came from or were associated with the Pacific Northwest. The collection consists of background files on the project and files of clippings, reminiscences and other biographical material on 54 individual veterans.

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Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives

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