Finding Aid to the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, Bay Area Post Records, 1928-1995 (bulk 1937-1988)

Mario H. Ramirez

The Bancroft Library

University of California, Berkeley

Berkeley, CA 94720-6000

Phone: (510) 642-6481

Fax: (510) 642-7589

Email: bancref@library.berkeley.edu

URL: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/

Finding Aid to the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, Bay Area Post Records, 1928-1995 (bulk 1937-1988)

Collection number: BANC MSS 71/105 z

The Bancroft Library

University of California, Berkeley

Berkeley, CA 94720-6000

Phone: (510) 642-6481

Fax: (510) 642-7589

Email: bancref@library.berkeley.edu

URL: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/

Finding Aid Author(s):: Mario H. Ramirez
Date Completed:: 2012
Finding Aid Encoded By:: GenX

Collection Summary

Collection Title: Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, Bay Area Post records

Date (inclusive): 1928-1995

Date (bulk): 1937-1988

Collection Number: BANC MSS 71/105 z

Creator: Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, Bay Area Post

Extent: 9 cartons, 3 oversize boxes, 47 oversize folders (17 linear feet) 1 digital object (1 image)

Repository: The Bancroft Library.

University of California, Berkeley

Berkeley, CA 94720-6000

Phone: (510) 642-6481

Fax: (510) 642-7589

Email: bancref@library.berkeley.edu

URL: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/

Abstract: The Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, Bay Area Post records including correspondence, administrative files, posters, postcards, artifacts, clippings, articles, scrapbooks, artifacts, biographical material, broadsides and organizational information.

Languages Represented: Collection materials are in Spanish, English, Catalan, Polish, German

Access

Collection is open for research.

Publication Rights

All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from or otherwise use collection materials must be submitted in writing to the Head of Public Services, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, 94720-6000. Consent is given on behalf of The Bancroft Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission from the copyright owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright owner. See: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/reference/permissions.html.

Restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of digital files is restricted to research and educational purposes.Materials in this collection may be protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). In addition, the reproduction of some materials may be restricted by terms of University of California gift or purchase agreements, donor restrictions, privacy and publicity rights, licensing and trademarks. Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Works not in the public domain cannot be commercially exploited without permission of the copyright owner. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, Bay Area Post records, BANC MSS 71/105 z, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley

Alternate Forms Available

There are no alternate forms of this collection.

Removed or Separated Material

Books, serials and pamphlets which are unique at Bancroft have been transferred to the Rare Book Collection and cataloged individually. Provenance tracings to the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, Bay Area Post records have been made in these catalog records. A considerable number of pamphlet duplicates can be found scattered among the various subject or topical files.

Photographs have been transferred to the Pictorial Collection of the Bancroft Library.

Audio tapes have been transferred to the Microforms Division of the Bancroft Library and are listed separately.

Indexing Terms

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog

Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, Bay Area Post

Americans--Spain--History--20th century

Spain--History--Civil War

Posters

Acquisition Information

The Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, Bay Area Post records were donated to the Bancroft Library by multiple donors. These included: Donald MacLeod, 1970-1987; Hank Rubin, 1988 and 1990; Peter Carroll, 1991 and 1993; and various unnamed members of the Brigade from 1987-1991.

Accruals

No additions are expected.

Processing Information

Processed by Mario H. Ramirez in 2012.

Biography/Organization History

The Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade (VALB) is the collective organization that represents men and women from the United States who volunteered to fight in the Spanish Civil War from 1936-1938. Made up of individuals from a number of battalions (including the Abraham Lincoln, George Washington and the MacKenzie-Papineau), the organization also has members that served in the medical corps (American Medical Bureau to Save Spanish Democracy), transport group (Regiment de Tren) and artillery units such as the John Brown Artillery Corps.

The VALB was formally founded in 1939 and acts as a forum for the remembrance of and dissemination of information on the Spanish Civil War, as a mechanism for networking among veterans, their families and their supporters, and as a tool for political advocacy. In recent decades, it has taken up the task of documenting its own history and collected papers, oral histories and other records under the auspices of the Archives of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. The bulk of these materials are found at the Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives at New York University.

Scope and Content Note

The Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade (VALB), Bay Area Post records lend researchers insight into both the local, national and international activities of the VALB and its members and affiliates, as well as key historical information on the Spanish Civil War. In addition, it features information on the everyday workings of the Bay Area Post, and the contributions of its members to the history of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, as well as contemporary political causes.

Containing minutes, broadsides, magazines, writings, clippings and administrative files, highlights of the collection include extensive holdings of posters and postcards, as well as numerous artifacts (pins, scarves and buttons) and veteran correspondence from the civil war.

The collection spans the years 1928 to 1995, with the bulk concentrating on the years 1937-1988. It is divided into eleven series: I. Administrative, II. Correspondence, III. Biographical, IV. Subject Files, V. Organizations, VI. Publications, VII. Clippings and Articles, VIII. Postcards and Transparencies, IX. Posters and Other Oversize, X. Scrapbooks and XI. Artifacts.

Administrative, undated, 1938-1990

carton 1, folder 1-2

Bay Area Post, Executive Board, Minutes, 1984-1988

carton 1, folder 3

Bay Area Post, Financial, 1974-1990

carton 1, folder 4-5

Bay Area Post, General, undated, 1937-1987

carton 1, folder 6

Bay Area Post, Legislative, 1975-1982

carton 1, folder 7

Bay Area Post, Minutes, 1983-1988

carton 1, folder 8

Bay Area Post, Record of Contributions to the Bancroft Library, 1984

carton 1, folder 9

Los Angeles Post, undated, 1973-1980

carton 1, folder 10

Memorial Awards, undated, 1982-1983

carton 1, folder 11

National Administrative Committee, undated, 1977-1983

carton 1, folder 12

National Board, Minutes, 1967-1987

carton 1, folder 13

National Executive Board, Minutes, 1979, 1982, 1985-1986

carton 1, folder 14

National Organization, undated, 1985-1987

carton 1, folder 15

National Resident Board, 1975-1977

carton 1, folder 16-17

New York and National Board, undated, 1938-1985

carton 1, folder 18

New York Post, undated, 1985-1986

carton 1, folder 19

Register of Volunteers and Their Whereabouts, 1975

Correspondence, undated, 1936-1989

carton 1, folder 20-21

Amsbury, Clifton, 1937-1938, 1968

carton 1, folder 22-23

Baley, Barney, 1937-1938, 1954, 1974-1984

carton 1, folder 24-32

Bay Area Post, undated, 1940-1988

carton 2, folder 1-2

Bender, Ed, 1970-1987

carton 2, folder 3

Boehm, George, undated, 1984-1985

carton 2, folder 4

Bonetti, Frank, 1988-1989

carton 2, folder 5-9

Brown, Archie, 1942-1944, 1981-1983

carton 2, folder 10

Cole, C.M., 1937-1939

carton 2, folder 11

Curtis, Lee, 1937-1938

carton 2, folder 12

Dinner, 1973-1980

carton 2, folder 13

Ehrenbourg, Ilya, 1936-1937

carton 2, folder 14

Fasanella, Ralph "Bob," 1937-1938

carton 2, folder 15

Form Letters, undated, 1962-1984

carton 2, folder 16

Foucek, George, 1937-1938

carton 2, folder 17

Gandesa, 1979

carton 2, folder 18-27

Gardner, Ben, 1935-1948

carton 2, folder 28

Goldring, Benjamin, 1979-1980

carton 2, folder 29

International Solidarity with the Spanish People, 1975-1976

carton 2, folder 30-31

MacLeod, Donald, 1937-1938, 1974-1982, 1985

carton 2, folder 32

McCarthy, Bill, 1987

carton 2, folder 33

Mates, David, 1970-1976

carton 2, folder 34-35

Miscellaneous, undated, 1937-1986

carton 2, folder 36

Moffitt, James K., 1953-1954

carton 2, folder 37

Parsons, Edward L., 1940-1951

carton 2, folder 38

Patri, Jacomo, undated

carton 2, folder 39

Reiter, Peter, 1940

carton 2, folder 40

Reunion, 1972

carton 2, folder 41

Rosenstein, Herman, 1970-1989

carton 2, folder 42-45

Sennett, William, 1937-1938

carton 2, folder 46

Thayer, Don, 1966-1981

carton 2, folder 47

Wilshusen, Werner, 1937

carton 2, folder 48

Wolff, Frieda, 1982-1983

carton 2, folder 49-51

Wolff, Milt, undated, 1971-1988

carton 3, folder 1-7

Wolff, Milt, undated, 1977-1987

carton 3, folder 8

Wolman, Gene, 1937

Biographical, undated, 1937-1995

carton 3, folder 9

Allan, Ted, undated,

carton 3, folder 10-11

Amsbury, Clifford, undated, 1969-1970, 1979

carton 3, folder 12

Arvola, Edward, undated, 1938

carton 3, folder 13

Arvola, Frank, undated, 1972, 1980-1983

carton 3, folder 14

Balchowsky, Eddie, undated, 1989

carton 3, folder 15

Baley, Barney, undated, 1937-1938, 1942, 1976-1979, 1982-1984

carton 3, folder 16

Barnett, James, undated, 1973, 1981, 1984

carton 3, folder 17

Barsky, Edward K., undated

carton 3, folder 18

Bates, Ralph, undated

carton 3, folder 19

Bessie, Alvah, undated, 1951-1952, 1978, 1984-1985

carton 3, folder 20

Bottcher, Herman, undated, 1943-1945

carton 3, folder 21

Brown, Archie, 1977, 1990

carton 3, folder 22

Clark, Durward, undated

carton 3, folder 23

Cook, Jerry, undated

carton 3, folder 24

Corbin, Jerry, 1984

carton 3, folder 25

Crooks, Jimmy, 1980

carton 3, folder 26

Curtis, Lee, undated, 1971

carton 3, folder 27

DeMaio, Tony, 1983, 1988

carton 3, folder 28

Draper, Muriel, undated

carton 3, folder 29

Du Berrier, Hilaire, 1983

carton 3, folder 30

Duncan, Lowell, 1938, 1979

carton 3, folder 31

Ewen, Jim, 1938

carton 3, folder 32

Fasanella, Ralph, 1937, 1973-1975, 1987-1989

carton 3, folder 33

Felsen, Milt, 1989

carton 3, folder 34

Foucek, George, 1937-1938

carton 3, folder 35-36

Gardner, Ben, undated, 1937-1938, 1944, 1989

carton 3, folder 37

Goff, Irving, 1986, 1989

carton 3, folder 38

Goldstein, Ben, 1985

carton 3, folder 39

Joliot-Curie, Irene, undated, 1944, 1948, 1954

carton 3, folder 40

Hogarth, Paul, undated

carton 3, folder 41

Kailen, Clarence, 1986

carton 3, folder 42

Kozar, John, undated, 1979

carton 3, folder 43

Landis, Arthur H., undated, 1938, 1986

carton 3, folder 44

Levine, Sidney, undated, 1938

carton 3, folder 45

Lister, Enrique, undated

carton 3, folder 46

Lucid, Jack, undated, 1971, 1977

carton 3, folder 47-48

MacLeod, Don, undated, 1938-1939, 1963, 1977-1978, 1985

carton 3, folder 49

Mates, Dave, undated, 1973-1975

carton 3, folder 50

Mendelson, Wilfred, 1980

carton 3, folder 51

Menzies, David, 1938

carton 3, folder 52

Merriman, Robert, 1985-1987

carton 3, folder 53

Miltenberger, John M., undated

carton 3, folder 54

Miscellaneous, undated, 1965, 1977, 1982, 1995

carton 3, folder 55

Newman, Sol, undated, 1980

carton 3, folder 56

North, Joseph, 1976

carton 3, folder 57

Orton, Fritz, undated

carton 3, folder 58

Osheroff, Abe, undated, 1974

carton 3, folder 59

Palencia, Isabel de, undated, 1946-1947

carton 3, folder 60

Parsons, Edward L., 1948-1949

carton 3, folder 61-62

Quiggle, Harlan G., undated, 1937-1939

carton 4, folder 1

Rigamonte, Gino, undated, 1937, 1939,

carton 4, folder 2

Rolfe, Edwin, undated

carton 4, folder 3

Romero, Ernie, 1938, 1975, 1978

carton 4, folder 4

Sasson, Abraham, 1938

carton 4, folder 5

Schuetrum, Walter, 1985-1986

carton 4, folder 6

Sennett, William, undated, 1982, 1984

carton 4, folder 7

Spencer, L.F., 1937-1939

carton 4, folder 8

Stamm, Morris, 1977, 1984

carton 4, folder 9

Stratton, Felice, undated, 1941

carton 4, folder 10

Thayer, Donald, 1973

carton 4, folder 11

Thompson, David, undated

carton 4, folder 12

Tisa, John, 1976

carton 4, folder 13

Tivin, Isadore, 1979

carton 4, folder 14

Tyler, Hamilton, 1984

carton 4, folder 15

Vail, Earl, undated, 1938, 1979, 1982

carton 4, folder 16

Vogel, Otto, undated, 1938-1939

carton 4, folder 17

Wachtel, Marion, undated, 1970, 1977, 1984-1987

carton 4, folder 18

Wellman, Saul, undated

carton 4, folder 19

Wolff, Milton, undated, 1973-1984

carton 4, folder 20

Zimmer, Robert, undated

Subject Files, undated, 1937-1990

carton 4, folder 21

40th Anniversary, 1976-1977

carton 4, folder 22-23

50th Anniversary, 1979, 1985-1988

carton 4, folder 24

Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives, 1981-1986, 1990

carton 4, folder 25-26

Annual Dinners, 1976-1984

carton 4, folder 27

Assorted Appeals for Aid to Spanish Refugees, undated, 1939, 1941

carton 4, folder 28

Bibliographies, undated, 1939-1940, 1980

carton 4, folder 29

Brief for Petitioner, U.S. Court of Appeals, Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade vs. Subversive Activities Control Board, 1962

carton 4, folder 30

California Council Table, 1949

carton 4, folder 31

Educational Outreach Programs, 50th Anniversary, undated, 1985-1986

carton 4, folder 32

Film Project, undated, 1980, 1984

carton 4, folder 33, oversize-box 1, oversize-folder 13

Flyers, undated, 1938, 1949, 1951, 1974, 1978, 1980-1988

carton 4, folder 34

Historical Commission, undated, 1976-1982

carton 4, folder 35

ILWU Resolution and Spain, 1951

carton 4, folder 36-37

International Brigades, undated, 1937-1987

carton 4, folder 38-39

Japanese Involvement in the International Brigades, 1985-1986

carton 4, folder 40

Madison Square Garden Spanish Refugee Appeal, 1945

carton 4, folder 41-42

Materials from Anniversaries, 1971-1991

carton 4, folder 43

Materials Supporting the Carabanchel Ten, undated, 1972-1974

carton 4, folder 44-45

Miscellaneous, undated, 1948-1987

carton 4, folder 46

Newsletters, undated, 1937-1947, 1977-1984

carton 5, folder 1

Newsletters, undated, 1974-1987

carton 5, folder 2-3

Nicaraguan Ambulance Project, undated, 1984-1990

carton 5, folder 4

Notes on Testimony of Witnesses for the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade before the Subversive Activities Control Board, undated

carton 5, folder 5

Obituaries, 1977-1984

carton 5, folder 6

Paquebot "Paris," Cherbourg-Southhampton-New York, Departure, 1938

carton 5, folder 7

The Passionate War, 1983

carton 5, folder 8

Press Releases, undated, 1963, 1974-1975, 1979, 1984

carton 5, folder 9

Programs, 1964, 1977-1988

carton 5, folder 10

Refugees, Mexico, undated, 1939-1947, 1953

carton 5, folder 11

Return to Life, undated

carton 5, folder 12

Salvadoran Relief, undated, 1981-1982, 1988

carton 5, folder 13

Script for 50th Annniversary of Spanish Civil War, 1986

carton 5, folder 14

Song Sheets, undated, 1937-1939, 1961-1963

carton 5, folder 15

Spain, Catholic Church, 1939

carton 5, folder 16-20

Vet Dinner, 1977-1982

carton 5, folder 21

Video Biographical Project, undated

carton 5, folder 22

Unions, undated, 1938-1954, 1976

carton 5, folder 23-30

Transcript of Testimony of Witnesses for the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade before the Subversive Activities Control Board, 1954

carton 6, folder 1-3

Transcript of Testimony of Witnesses for the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade before the Subversive Activities Control Board, 1954

carton 6, folder 4

War Ephemera, undated, 1938

Organizations, undated, 1928-1990

carton 6, folder 5

American Committee to Save Refugees, undated

carton 6, folder 6

American Rescue Ship Mission, undated, 1941

carton 6, folder 7

American-Korean Friendship and Information Center, undated, 1973-1975

carton 6, folder 8

Asociación de Aviadores de la Republica, undated, 1978, 1981-1982

carton 6, folder 9

Asociación de Ex-Presos y Represalidos Políticos, undated, 1980-1982

carton 6, folder 10

Comité International de Coordination et d'Information pour l'Aide a l'Espagne Républicaine, 1938

carton 6, folder 11

Continental Conference to Aid Spanish Refugess, 1940

carton 6, folder 12

Gray Panthers, 1982

carton 6, folder 13-15

Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee, undated, 1939-1954

carton 6, folder 16

Medical Bureau to Aid Spanish Democracy, undated, 1936-1937

carton 6, folder 17-18

Miscellaneous, undated, 1937-1982

carton 6, folder 19

New El Salvador Today (NEST), 1985-1986

carton 6, folder 20

Nicaragua Information Center, 1986

carton 6, folder 21

North American Spanish Aid Committee, undated

carton 6, folder 22

Office International pour l'Enfance, 1937-1938

carton 6, folder 23

Party of Marxist Unity (P.O.U.M), circa 1920, 1928, 1937-1938

carton 6, folder 24

Sender Freies Berlin, undated, 1983

carton 6, folder 25

Spain, Ministerio de Propaganda, 1936

carton 6, folder 26

Spanish Civil War Historical Society, 1980

carton 6, folder 27

Spanish Information Bureau, 1946-1947

carton 6, folder 28, oversize-box 1, oversize-folder 13

Spanish Refugee Appeal, undated, 1939-1954

carton 6, folder 29, oversize-box 1, oversize-folder 13

Spanish Refugee Relief Campaign, 1939

carton 6, folder 30

State Department, 1949-1950

carton 6, folder 31

Unitarian Service Committee, 1945-1951

carton 6, folder 32

United American Spanish Aid Committee, undated

carton 6, folder 33

United Nations, Spain, 1946-1949

carton 6, folder 34-35, oversize-box 1, oversize-folder 13

U.S. Committee for a Democratic Spain, undated, 1970-1976

carton 6, folder 36

U.S. - El Salvador Institute for Democratic Development, undated, 1985-1986, 1989-1990

carton 7, folder 1

Varsovie Hospital, undated, 1946, 1949-1953

carton 7, folder 2-6

Veteran's Rights Committee, undated, circa 1940s-1950s, 1971-1987

Publications, 1936-1989

oversize-box 3

ABC, 1975

carton 7, folder 7

A.M.I.: Periodico de la Ayuda Medica Extranjera, 1938

carton 7, folder 8

Among Friends, 1938

oversize-box 1, oversize-folder 13

Arriba, 1975

carton 7, folder 9

Camb16, 1975, 1983

oversize-box 3

Collier's, 1945

oversize-box 1, oversize-folder 13

Ejércicio del Ebro, circa 1930s

carton 7, folder 10

Femmes du Monde Entier, 1946

oversize-box 3

The Fight For Peace and Democracy: Spain, 1938

carton 7, folder 11-14

General, 1942-1989

carton 7, folder 15

Information Bulletin, 1937

carton 7, folder 16

International Press Correspondence, 1938

oversize-box 3

Interviu, 1977

carton 7, folder 17

Libertad, 1974, 1977-1980

carton 7, folder 18

Mac-Paps News Bulletin, 1974, 1976-1978, 1983

carton 7, folder 19, oversize-box 3

Mundo Obrero, 1937, 1975, 1978-1981

carton 7, folder 20

New Masses, 1939

carton 7, folder 21

Newsfront International, 1977, 1980-1981

oversize-box 3

Photo-History: War in Spain, 1937

carton 7, folder 22

Spagna per la Liberta Della, 1976-1979

carton 7, folder 23

Spanish Magazines, undated, 1938, 1978, 1980

oversize-box 3

Sucesos: Grandes Reportajes a la Historia del Mundo, La Guerra Civil Española, undated

oversize-box 1, oversize-folder 13

Upstate Magazine, When Americans Fought in Spain, 1983

carton 7, folder 24

Visiones, 1936-1937

carton 7, folder 25

Volunteer for Liberty, Our Fight, 1937-1938

Clippings and Articles, undated, 1935-1991

carton 7, folder 26

50th Anniversary, 1985-1986

carton 7, folder 27

Articles on Post-Civil War Spain, undated, 1949, 1975-1976, 1982

carton 7, folder 28

Articles Related to Spain During the Civil War and the American Participants, undated, 1938, 1962, 1973, 1978

carton 7, folder 29

Bender, Ed and Wolff, Milt, 1978-1987

carton 7, folder 30

Gardner, Ben, 1933, 1945

carton 7, folder 31

German Newspapers, 1935-1936, 1943

carton 7, folder 32

Magazine, undated, 1939-1987

carton 8, folder 1-10

Newspaper, undated, 1936-1991

carton 8, folder 11-15

Photocopies, undated, 1938-1988

Postcards and Tranparencies, circa 1930s, 1986-1987

carton 8, folder 16

"Poster" Postcards, circa 1930s

carton 8, folder 17

Photographic and Post-War Postcards, circa 1930s, 1986-1987

carton 8, folder 18

Color Transparencies of Selected Posters, circa 1930s

Posters and Other Oversize, undated, 1930-1987

oversize-box 1, oversize-folder 1

Return to Life, circa 1930s

oversize-box 1, oversize-folder 2

But What about the Guys in the Lincoln Brigade?, 1987

oversize-box 1, oversize-folder 3

Bay Area Post VALB 40th Anniversary Banquet, Honoring the Premature Anti-Fascist Women, 1979

Additional Note

Contains 5 items.

oversize-box 1, oversize-folder 4

Spanish Refugee Appeal/Reservations Here, undated

oversize-box 1, oversize-folder 4

[Bl]acklist [Un]fair [to AL]B Vets!, undated

oversize-box 1, oversize-folder 4

Scratchboard--Swastika Over Family, undated

oversize-box 1, oversize-folder 4

United American Spanish Aid, Bulletin, 1941

oversize-box 1, oversize-folder 5

Mientras haya un puñado de nuestra tierra, undated

oversize-box 1, oversize-folder 5

Franco c'est la guerre, 1950

oversize-box 1, oversize-folder 5

Photocopy of Labor Defender Cover, 1930

oversize-box 1, oversize-folder 5

La Vanguardia Folio, 1938

oversize-box 1, oversize-folder 5

Scrapbook Pages, Newspaper Clippings, undated