William Sennett Photographs 1937-1938

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William Sennett Photographs 1937-1938

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As a youth, William Sennett was a member of the Young Communist League; he later became a paid functionary of the Communist Party, USA, and still later a successful corporate executive. A metalworker from Cicero, IL, Sennett served in the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War as political commissar of a transportation regiment -- Second Squad, Second Regiment de Tren. The collection contains non-combat images of an armored car crew, artillery crew, motorcycle corps, scouts, troops heading to the front, performing support activities and relaxing, bombed/shelled buildings, Spanish nurses and other civilians, Spanish street scenes and panoramas.

0.25 linear feet; (1 Document Box); 88 negatives sized from 2 ¼ x 3 ¾ inches to 3 ½ x 2 ½ inches.

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Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives

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