Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, Bay Area Post records, 1928-1995, bulk 1937-1988

Summary

Creators:

Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, Bay Area Post

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.

Extent:

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

Language:

Collection materials are in Spanish , English , Catalan , Polish , German

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

Background

Scope and content:

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.

Biographical / historical:

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.

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.

Processing information:

Processed by Mario H. Ramirez in 2012.

Accruals:

No additions are expected.

Rules or conventions:

Finding Aid prepared using Describing Archives: a Content Standard

Related resources

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.

Alternative form available:

There are no alternate forms of this collection.

Indexed terms

Subjects:

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

Names:

Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, Bay Area Post

Places:

Spain--History--Civil War

Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Terms of access:

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

Location of this collection:

UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library

University of California, Berkeley, The Bancroft Library

Berkeley, CA 94720-6000, US

Contact:

510-642-6481

bancref-library@berkeley.edu

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