Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives: Small Photograph Collections

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 Klein's 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 Rauschwald's 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 Rauschwald's 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 Torgoff's Collection contains five prints including images of Torgoff's 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 Ibarruri's 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.

Series XXV: Mito Kruth Collection. The Mito Kruth Collection contains 62 images removed from Kruth's disassembled scrapbook including images of Helen Leiviska (who would later become his wife) and Kruth family and friends resting and relaxing and images of the Vermont countryside. The scrapbook has been photocopied to preserve the original order.

Series XXVI: Irving Jenkins Collection. The Irving Jenkins Collection contains 34 images including Jenkins with Bernie Danchik and Dorothy Tucker in Paris and Barcelona, troops marching in Barcelona, Barcelona and Paris street scenes and steamships. Jenkins was a Cornell University student and athlete who traveled to Barcelona in the summer of 1936 to participate in the People's Olympics.

Series XXVII: Benjamin Leider Collection. The Benjamin Leider Collection consists of 34 prints, including portraits and group shots taken before Leider's service in Spain, a portrait showing Leider in the cockpit of a plane, and an image of a large sign/poster of Leider, apparently carried in a parade or demonstration in New York City after his death in Spain.

Series XXVIII: Douglas Wayne Male Collection. The Douglas Wayne Male Collection consists of 6 prints, including informal group and individual shots taken in the field in Spain. Several are associated with and annotated by Male's friend and fellow-volunteer Boleslaw Sliwon; another, showing African-American volunteer Sterling Rochester, with a group of Spanish soldiers, is annotated in a different hand.

Series XXIX: Milton White Collection. The Milton White Collection contains 15 prints and one transparency, mostly of unidentified women (probably relatives). There are also some group portraits of US Army and US Army Airforce officers based in Miami. There are two prints of Milton White.

Series XXX: Robert Taylor Collection. The Robert Taylor Collection consists of four prints, three of them group shots including Taylor during the Spanish Civil War and the fourth a photo from a VALB event in 1984.