Bill Gandall Photographs
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Historical/Biographical Note
Bill Gandall (1908-1991) was an activist and veteran of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. He joined the U.S. Marine Corps in 1926 and served in the 1927 intervention in Nicaragua. He subsequently became active in leftist and union politics. During the Spanish Civil War, Gandall worked mostly with Spanish troops, rather than the Lincoln Brigade. After the war, he continued his activism, including campaigning against American support for the Contras. He suffered a heart attack during a confrontation with police over the Persian Gulf War and died shortly thereafter.
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Laser copies of the Spanish Civil War-era pictures from Bill Gandall's photo album. Aside from Bill and his Spanish girlfriend Amparo Niembro, most of the people are unidentified.
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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
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 materials in this collection must be secured from the Tamiment Library & Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives. For more information, contact tamiment.wagner@nyu.edu or 212-998-2630.
