Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives [graphic] : small photograph collections. 1928-1992.

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Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives [graphic] : small photograph collections. 1928-1992.

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The collection is a compilation of photographic prints, slides and negatives relating to the Spanish Civil War and the Abraham Lincoln Brigade associated with, or collected by, various individuals. Series I: Carl Geiser Collection. The Carl Geiser Collection contains 10 prints including images of Geiser in Spain and in a French concentration camp, images of Sidney Rosenblatt in Spain and Frank Blackman with Paul Scott in Toronto. Also one negative of troops at the front on a truck. The negative does not match any print in the collection. Series II: Steve Nelson Collection. The Steve Nelson Collection contains approximately 25 prints including images of volunteers resting and relaxing, Steve Nelson in Spain and the United States, Marion Noble and Don Eggert at Belchite, Oliver Law, Larry Lustgarten in Spain. VALB veterans events post-SCW. It also contains approximately 30 negatives including images of Dolores Ibarruri, Herman Kleins identity card and troops at the front. Negatives do not match prints. Series III: Theodore Cogswell collection. The Theodore Cogswell Collection contains seven prints, including images of Cogswell in Spain, and volunteers resting/relaxing in Murcia. Series IV: Alvah Bessie Collection. The Alvah Bessie Collection contains twelve prints including combat images, tribute to Bessie in Berkeley, CA, and publicity photos from the film To Die in Madrid. Series V: Lawrence Cane Collection. The Lawrence Cane Collection contains one image of the veterans returning to New York City from Spain. Series VI: Harry Hakam Collection. The Harry Hakam Collection contains approximately 20 prints including images of Hakkam in Spain, air combat, Ralph Bates in Spain, volunteers resting/relaxing behind the lines, Robert Steck speaking to the troops in Spain. One negative of troops resting/relaxing behind the lines. The negative matches a print in the collection. Series VII: Edward Lending Collection. The Edward Lending Collection contains three prints including images of Lending in Spain with Samuel Harold Levinger, Maurice Hawkins, Jack Shafran, Ken Graeber, Sam Schiff, Peter Frye, Felix Kuzman, and Bill Skinner. Series VIII: Vincent Lossowski Collection. The Vincent Lossowski Collection contains one portrait of Lossowski during WWII and another 8 x 10 print with a portrait of Lossowski, Bob Thompson, Larry Cane, Mike Jimenez, Irving Goff and Neil Wesson titled The Have Served with Honor. Series IX: Mark Rauschwald Collection. The Mark Rauschwald Collection contains approximately 100 prints including Rauschwalds artwork, anti-fascist demonstrations in New York City, Phil Bard at a May Day event in the U.S., Rauschwald in the U.S., Arnold Dudra in the U.S., Arnold LeHavre in the U.S. Harry Mensh in the U.S. Also contains eleven slides of Rauschwalds artwork. Series X: Ely J. Sack Collection. The Ely J. Sack Collection contains approximately twenty prints including portraits of Sack, Sack and Morris Brier resting/relaxing behind the lines, and Ely Sack with Edith Sack and Louise Stone. Series XI: Mildred Rackley Collection. The Mildred Rackley Collection contains two prints including one image of an ambulance and one image of medical personnel including Oscar Telge, Wilhelm Holst, Eve Merrimen, Stanislaus Rubint and Edward Barsky [?]. Series XII: Leon Torgoff Collection. The Leon Torgoffs Collection contains five prints including images of Torgoffs childhood and a portrait with Jada Torgoff. One negative matches the print of Leon and Jada Torgoff. Series XIII: Neil Wesson Collection. The Neil Wesson Collection contains approximately 45 prints including images of Wesson at the front with Andrew Pape, Sid Horowitz and Jose Baldugne, relaxing with Robert Merriman and Alfred Blasa, at Dolores Ibarruris house with Ruth Wesson, Alva Bessie, and Hy Rassner, WWII portraits, and with Bob Raven and Don Thayer in the German Democratic Republic. Also contains images of Dachau Concentration Camp survivors and victims. Series XIV: Paul Wendorf Collection. The Paul Wendorf Collection contains three prints including images of Wendorf at the front firing a machine gun, relaxing behind the lines, and a proletarian monument [location]. Series XV: Elias Begelman Collection. The Elias Begelman Collection contains two prints, a portrait of Begelman in Spain and one of Artur Dorf in the U.S. (1944). Series XVI: Howard Goddard Collection. The Howard Goddard collection contains approximately twenty prints including three images of Goddard en route to Spain with Yale Stuart, two images of Jose Valledor with Bill Alexander in London (1985) and twelve images of the Sixtieth Anniversary Homenaje in Barcelona (1996). Series XVII: Miriam Sigel Collection. The Miriam Sigel Collection contains four prints including portraits of [Paul] Sigel, Victor Tishup and an unidentified individual. Series XVIII: Frank C. Costanzo Collection. The Frank C. Costanzo Collection contains one portrait of Costanzo. Series XIX: George Chaiken Collection. The George Chaiken Collection contains a portrait of Pedro Jimenez and two images of Spanish child refugees. Series XX: Sylvia Boehm Acker Collection. The Sylvia Boehm Acker Collection contains one portrait of George Boehm in Paris and one portrait of George Boehm in Spain. Series XXI: Robert Colodny Collection. The Robert Colodny Collection contains fourteen prints including images of American Volunteers with pre-WWI non-recoil cannon, Chato a snub-nosed Soviet fighter plane, U.S. volunteers in winter gear, an American kitchen crew, Mitchell Diggs and Dave Doran with an armored vehicle in Teruel, and a memorial to victims of Spanish fascism, as well as portraits of Herman Bottcher, George Cullinen, Kenneth Shaker, Bill Wheeler and Milton Wolff, and one of Fredericka Martin and Francis Patai in Cuernavaca, Mexico. Series XXII: James Bernard Rucker Collection. The James Bernard Rucker Collection contains two prints including one image of the 317th Medical Battalion of the 92nd Infantry, Company D and one image of Decoration Day with Rucker and the President of the United Negro Veterans. Series XXIII: Martin Friedman Collection. The Martin Friedman Collection contains two prints including one portrait of Friedman in Spain and one image an unidentified individual. Series XXIV: Edward Carter Collection. The Edward Carter Collection contains three images including a portrait of Carter in WWII, an image of Carter with a submachine gun and an image of the container ship SSG Edward A. Carter Jr.

1.5 linear ft. (3 boxes)ca. 1800 photographs : b&w ; 1 1/2 x 1 1/2 in. to 8 x 15 1/2 in.50 photographs : col. ; 4 x 4 in. to 5 x 4 in.ca. 15 photographs : negatives, b&w ; 3 1/2 x 2 1/2 in. to 5 x 3 1/2 in.11 slides : col.

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Friedman, Martin, 1914-1966.

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Martin Friedman (1914-1966) fought with the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the Spanish Civil War and worked as a union organizer with the International Association of Machinists for over 25 years. From the description of Papers, 1931-1966 (bulk 1937-1938). (New York University). WorldCat record id: 476062450 Martin Friedman was born into a working-class family in Trenton, New Jersey on November 24, 1914 to Morris and Rose Friedman. He came of age during the Depressi...

Colodny, Robert Garland

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Sack, Ely Joseph, 1937-1992.

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Siegel, Joseph Isaac.

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Joseph Isaac Siegel attended the Boston Latin School and Harvard University. He joined the International Brigades in Spain in July 1937, where he was initially assigned to the British Battalion in the medical corps as an ambulance driver, first aid worker, and stretcher bearer. Siegel then joined the Lincoln Washington Battalion and fought with the machine gun company on the Aragon front in the fall of 1937, among other battles. Siegel was repatriated to the U.S. in late 1938. He died in 1972. ...

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Mark Benjamin Rauschwald, the son of recent immigrants from Poland, was born in 1908 and grew up in New York City. After attending Cooper Union, Rauschwald joined the Commercial Artists and Designers Union and worked as a graphic artist. He sailed for Spain in March 1937, where he served in the Abraham Lincoln Battalion at Jarama and Brunete. He was wounded at Brunete. Rauschwald later worked with the Cultural Commission and in the Censors Office in Albacete. After returning to the States in Dec...

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Theodore Rose Cogswell was born in 1918 in Pennsylvania. In 1937, when he was 19, Cogswell told his parents he was going on vacation to France but instead he crossed the Pyrenees into Spain to join the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War. He trained as a signalman with a machine gun company, but when it was discovered that he was under 21 he was transferred off the front lines, first to work as a truck driver, then later as an ambulance driver for the Hospital Pasionaria in Murcia. C...

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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...

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Alvah Bessie (1904-1985) was an author and screenwriter who fought with the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in Spain, and was later blacklisted as one of the "Hollywood Ten" cited for contempt of Congress for refusing to answer questions at the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) hearings on the influence of the Communist Party in the motion-picture industry. From the description of Papers, 1937-1991 (bulk 1936-1939, 1967-1985). (New York University). WorldCat record id: 476413154 ...

Begelman, Elias, 1912-1959.

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Elias Begelman (1912-1959) was born in Riga, Latvia and grew up in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, New York. Telling his mother he was going to Chicago, Begelman joined the Abraham Lincoln Brigade and went to Spain in January 1937. He saw heavy action on several fronts, and also served for a stint as translator and interpreter for Brigade headquarters (he spoke eight languages). He returned to the United States in October 1938. Begelman later served in World War II. Alternate spellings for...

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Lossowski, Vincent, 1914-1984.

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Lending, Edward Isaac, 1912-2003.

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Edward Isaac Lending (1912-2003) fought with the International Brigades in Spain and later served in the United States Army during World War II. From the description of Papers, 1937-1995 (bulk 1978-1995). (New York University). WorldCat record id: 476060327 Isaac Edward Lending was born March 24, 1912 and raised in the Bronx. His father, who ran a textile trimmings business, was a religious Jew and early member of the Zionist Organization of America. As a young ...

Wendorf, Paul.

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Paul Wendorf (1912?-1938), a graduate of Columbia University, joined the Communist Party in 1933 and worked as an activist and labor organizer in New York City. He served with the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in Spain from February 1937 until his death in action in August 1938. Wendorf fought in the battle at the Jarama front from March to June 1937, and in the Brunete offensive from July until August 1937. He was appointed in September 1937 to the Historical Commission in Albacete and, under the sup...

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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...