Alvin Warren Photographs 1936-1938

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Alvin Warren Photographs 1936-1938

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Alvin R. Warren, born in 1913, joined the Abraham Lincoln Brigade soon after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936. In time he rose to the rank of lieutenant, and was eventually made Quartermaster of a training base in Spain. The Alvin Warren Photograph Collection consists of images taken by Warren in Spain, and includes individual and group portraits of soldiers, scenes of front-line combat and behind-the-lines relaxation, war damage in the cities of Madrid, Barcelona, Quinto and Teruel, and daily life among the Spanish people.

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