Arthur H. Landis audiotape collection, 1963-1965, 1984.

Wheeler, William A. (William Almon), 1819-1887

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William Almon Wheeler (June 30, 1819 – June 4, 1887) was an American politician and attorney. He served as a United States representative from New York from 1861 to 1863 and 1869 to 1877, and the 19th vice president of the United States from 1877 to 1881. Born in Malone, New York, Wheeler pursued a legal career after attending the University of Vermont. After serving in various local positions, he won election to the New York State Legislature. He served in Congress from 1861 to 1863 and from...

Goldstein, Bennett H

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Ben Goldstein is a collector of graphic and political art, and an exhibits organizer; New York, N.Y. Maurice Becker was a graphic artist, cartoonist, and painter. From the description of Ben Goldstein letters, 1967-1971. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122571040 ...

Bevensee, Court.

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Nusser, Charles.

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Colow, Maury.

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Taft, Anne, 1912-1990

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Hyman, Frank Chesler.

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Brandt, Joseph, 1909-1997

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Joe Brandt (1909-1997) fought in the Spanish Civil War as a member of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade during 1937 and 1938. He was a dedicated member of the Communist Party throughout his life, joining the Young Communist League in 1926, working as an organizer in the 1930s, and later serving as a longtime member of the CPUSA national committee. He kept a number of scrapbooks in which he collected a broad range of materials relating to the Spanish Civil War, and especially American participation in ...

Smith, Randall, 1917-1989

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Randall B. Smith (1916-1989) was a veteran of the International Brigades who fought in the Spanish Civil War, and an active member of the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. From the description of Randall B. Smith collection of Spanish Civil War materials. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122597666 Randall (Pete) Smith (1917-1989) was born in Pennsylvania to a family whose roots lead back to Colonial America. For generations, both sides of hi...

Osheroff, Abe

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Klonsky, Robert

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Robert Klonsky was born March 12, 1918 and grew up in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn, NY, in a garment worker's family of Russian Jewish descent. He sailed for Europe, traveling under the name Max Klonsky, on February 5, 1937 and arrived in Spain in time to fight with the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the Battle of Jarama in the same month. He later took part in the Battle of Brunete and, suffering ill health, left Spain in October 1937. Klonsky served in World War II,...

Shaker, Kenneth R.

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Chaiken, George.

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Haber, Cohn.

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Levine, Sidney R.

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Van Clute, Walton.

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Klein, Hermann 1901-

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Pappas, Nickolas, 1960-....

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Nelson, Steve, 1903-1993

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Steve Nelson was born Stjepan Mesaroš in Croatia, and emigrated to the United States with his family after World War I. He was a labor activist and organizer, Communist Party official, Political Commissar in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, and National Commander of the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade (VALB). During his time in Spain he took part in the Brunete offensive, as well as the battles of Quinto and Belchite. He was wounded at Belchite, and then was recalled to the United States by...

Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. Historical Commission

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Parker, Max

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Wolff, Milton

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Milton (Milt) Wolff (1915-2008) was born in Brooklyn, NY to a working-class family. He left school at fifteen and worked in the New Deal 's Civilian Conservation Corps, 1933-1934. He later found work in a Manhattan garment factory and became politically active through membership in the Young Communist League. When the Civil War broke out in Spain he responded to a YCL appeal for volunteers and sailed for Europe, aged 21, in March 1937. He initially served as a medic and then saw act...

Thayer, Donald.

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Berch, Victor A

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Blair, John, 1955-....

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Keir, Duncan, Jr.

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Fishman, Moses, 1916-

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Goff, Irving, 1911-1989

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Irving Goff (1911 - 17 May 1989) was a member of the Communist Party USA and the Abraham Lincoln Battalion, a unit that volunteered to fight during the Spanish Civil War for the Popular Front. During World War II, he was a member of the American Office of Strategic Services, and was instrumental in setting up guerrilla units working behind enemy lines in North Africa and Italy. His exploits as a guerrilla in Spain are considered to be the inspiration for Ernest Hemingway's novel For Whom the Bel...

Quinones, Gabriel Jack.

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Zlotnick, Louis.

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Spain. Ejército Popular de la República. Abraham Lincoln Battalion.

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Schulman, Rebecca.

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Eider, Louis.

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Munday, Arthur.

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Davidow, Ruth,

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Abraham Lincoln brigade archives

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Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives: Small Photograph Collections is a compilation of images that have been separated from ALBA archival collections. For historical/biographical information on each individual, consult the guide to the corresponding manuscript collection. The images include scenes of the battlefield and daily life in the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War, Spanish civilians and locales during the War, portraits and group shots of American volunteers in Spain and in ...

Cane, Lawrence, 1912-1976

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Lawrence Cane (who changed his name from Lawrence Cohen in 1939, after returning from the Spanish Civil War) was the son of working-class Russian-Jewish immigrant parents and was raised in East Harlem, New York. He attended City College, where he was on the student council, edited the college newspaper and was active in anti-Nazi protests. During the height of the Depression, Cane hopped freight trains across the United States. In July 1936, without telling his parents where he was going, he sai...

Landis, Arthur H., 1917-1986

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Arthur H. Landis was born into a family of vaudeville performers in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1917, and spent most of his youth in Redondo Beach, California. Landis joined the 15th International Brigade in 1937 and fought with the MacKenzie-Papineau Battalion. He worked as a scout, a typographer, and an artillery spotter with the MacKenzie-Papineau Battalion, and fought in the battles of Aragon and Teruel, where he was injured. Landis also worked for a stint for an intelligence unit, and participa...

Love, Vaughn.

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Groden, Daniel Samuel.

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Goddard, Howard Owen.

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Howard Goddard (1911-1997) was born in Harrodsburg, Kentucky. The family moved to Southern California in 1921 and he took his first job when he turned 13. After graduating from high school he worked in Trona, California for a chemical mining company. His experience organizing and fighting for union rights in this company town (which involves one of the first landmark cases successfully argued before the National Labor Relations Board) solidified his belief in the workers' cause and the internati...

Sennett, William, 1914-

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William (Bill) Sennett (né Snesetsky or Snestzki) was raised in Chicago and participated in hunger marches, organizing in the South Side black community and other political activities as a Section Organizer for the Young Communist League. He was a metalworker, living in Cicero, IL, when he volunteered for service on the Loyalist side in the Spanish Civil War. He arrived in Spain in March 1937 and served in the International Brigades as political commissar of a transportation regimen -- Second S...

Hutchins, Evelyn, 1910-1982.

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Houlihan, Sara.

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Thompson, Robert

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Kusman, Felix, 1909-1983.

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Felix Kusman (1909-1983) served in the Spanish Civil War with the Abraham Lincoln Brigade and later was active in the Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee (JAFRC) and the United American Spanish Aid Committee. This small collection contains Kusmans FOIA, file including information collected about Kusman while he was under surveillance by the FBI from the early 1940s the early 1960s. From the description of Papers, 1937-1983 (bulk 1937-1963). (New York University). WorldCat record id:...

Secundy, Louis.

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Kaufman, Rubin.

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Howard, Owen

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Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade

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VALB was formed in December 1937 by U.S. volunteers returning from combat in the Spanish Civil War. VALB originally assisted wounded veterans and sought to awaken the U.S. public to the significance of the Spanish Civil War and the Loyalist cause. In later years, VALB began to address other political issues, including U.S. policy in World War II and later, Cuba, Nicaragua and Vietnam. In addition to their headquarters in New York City, VALB "Posts" developed in various cities including Los Angel...

Spain. Ejército Popular de la República. Brigada Internacional, XV.

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Foucek, George.

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McNeil, Allan Osborne, 1955-

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Harriman, Manny.

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Manny Harriman (1919-1997), born Samuel Nahman, was a veteran of both the Spanish Civil War and World War II who later pursued careers in tool and die making and publishing. During the McCarthy period he changed his name in an attempt to avoid harassment. He and a fellow Abraham Lincoln Brigade veteran, Arthur H. Landis, ran a small publishing firm, the Camelot Publishing Company. Following his first return trip to Spain in 1977, Harriman became interested in the history of his fellow Spanish Ci...

Schelling, Bartholomeus van der, 1892-

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Gittelson, Lester.

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Stuart, Yale.

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President of the Detroit Joint Board, United Public Workers-CIO. From the description of Yale Stuart papers, 1945-1949. (Wayne State University, Archives of Labor & Urban). WorldCat record id: 32321244 ...

Keller, Fred Paul.

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Fisher, Harry, 1911-....

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Harry Fisher (1911-2003) was born in New York City, and spent part of his childhood in the Hebrew National Orphan Home. A communist and union activist, he served with the International Brigades in Spain from March 1937 until September 1938. He participated in most of the major campaigns of the war, including the battle at the Jarama front from April to June 1937; the offensive at Brunete from July to August 1937; the taking of Belchite in September 1937; and later the Teruel offensive in the win...

Wellman, Wilbur Ed.

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Keller, Ruth.

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Geiser, Carl

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Carl Frederick Geiser was born in Orrville, Ohio on December 10, 1910. He was the oldest of six children and is maternal grandparents raised Geiser and his siblings. In the early 1930s, Geiser wrote press releases and edited International Labor Defense bulletins, organized for the League against War and Fascism, and in 1936 was elected to the National Committee of the Young Communist League. In 1937 Geiser joined the International Brigades and served in the Spanish Civil War. He served as an am...

Smith, Harold Chris, 1955-

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Chicago Tribune reporter on Leyte, Philippines. From the description of Harold Smith sound recording, 1944. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754867376 ...

Warren, Albertus

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MacLeod, Xavier Donald, 1821-1865

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Cornelius Xavier Donald MacLeod was born in New York city on November 17, 1821, the son of Rev. Alexander McLeod (1774-1833), a Presbyterian clergyman, and Mary Ann Agnew (1778-1841). His father, Alexander MacLeod, immigrated from Scotland in 1792. Donald was one of eleven children, only four of whom survived into adulthood. Much to the regret of his family, he took orders in the Protestant Episcopal church in 1845, and was given charge of a parish in the country. MacLeod served as chaplain t...

Tivin, Isidore.

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Barsky, Edward K., 1895-1975

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Dr. Edward K. Barsky was a prominent surgeon who led a group of American medical volunteers during the Spanish Civil War. For further biographical information on Edward Barsky, and to review the scope and contents of his manuscript collection see, The Guide to the Edward K. Barsky Papers, ALBA 125. The images in this collection were either taken by Barsky and his assistant or accrued in the course of his work as a surgeon in Spain. From the guide to the Edward K. Barsky Photographs, ...

Brown, Archie, 1911-1990.

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Archie Brown (1911-1990), San Francisco waterfront unionist, Communist Party organizer, and active member of the Bay Area Post of the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, fought with the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in Spain and participated in the Battle of the Bulge during WWII. He served on the Executive Board of the International Longshoremens and Warehousemens Union, Local 10, was prosecuted under the Landrum-Griffin Act barring Communists from serving as elected union officials, and won a S...