Guide to the Walter Schuetrum Papers, 1937-1989

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Guide to the Walter Schuetrum Papers, 1937-1989

1937-1989

Walter J. Schuetrum (1911-1986), a native of Wisconsin, served as an ambulance driver in the Spanish Civil War. After serving in the front lines of some of the crucial battles of the War, he retunred to the U.S. and, after service in World War II, settled in San Francisco. He worked as a longshoreman and a merchant seaman and was active in the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union, the National Maritime Union, and the Bay Area Post of the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. This collection of his papers includes documents, correspondence, ephemera, and artifacts from his time in Spain, as well as correspondence and papers from the 1960s-1980s.

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