Abraham Lincoln Brigade and Spanish Civil War Photographs: Contact Sheets
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Scope and Contents
The collection consists of ca. 300 contact sheets of Spanish Civil War-era photographs, mostly of individuals, groups, and activities of the International Brigades in Spain. The sheets are divided into two groups: 1.) four folders of small sheets (8 x 10"), each one containing from 4 to 9 images; 2.) two boxes of larger sheets (ca. 11 x 16") each containing about 25 images. The sheets are consecutively numbered 27 through 327 (with some "a" and "b" sheets added); they are undated and neither the photographer(s) nor the subjects of the photographs are identified. The sheets were evidently made for reference, probably in connection with a film or publishing project. The title "Comrades" is printed at the top of each sheet.
Roughly 2,000 of the images can be identified (by the negative numbers in their margins) as being the work of photographer Harry Randall and his colleagues of the Fifteenth International Brigade Photo Unit. Other, unnumbered images may be by the Unit as well. Most of the images are of International Brigades activities and personnel, but some show general scenes of Spain and of the War, and some show the U.S. veterans on shipboard or in the U.S.
Conditions Governing Access
Materials are open to researchers. Please contact the Tamiment Library & Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives for more information and to schedule an appointment, tamiment.wagner@nyu.edu or 212-998-2630.
Conditions Governing Use
Because of the assembled nature of this collection, copyright status varies across the collection. Copyrights held by original creators of individual items in the collection are expected to pass into the public domain 120 years after their creation. Any rights (including copyright and related rights to publicity and privacy) held by the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives (ALBA) were transferred to New York University in November 2000 by the ALBA Board of Governors. Permission to publish or reproduce ALBA materials must be secured from the Tamiment Library & Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives. For more information, contact tamiment.wagner@nyu.edu or 212-998-2630.
Provenance
This collection came to the Tamiment Library, NYU as part of the original acquisition of ALBA collections from Brandeis University in 2001.