Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives Subject Files
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Abstract
The Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives (ALBA) Subject Files are a rich source for background information on the people, events and topics related to the ALBA collections in the Tamiment Library and include coverage of the International Brigades as well. The files contain a variety of documents such as newspaper clippings, flyers, brochures, biographical material, anniversary and exhibit programs, obituaries, and other items. Consult the folder list in this collection to find material on specific events or topics. See the ALBA Vertical File on Individuals to find biographical material on specific individuals.
Arrangement
Files are arranged alphabetically.
Scope and Content Note
The collection consists of files of printed ephemera such as broadsides, brochures, bulletins, catalogs, clippings, flyers, leaflets, manifestoes, pamphlets, press releases, reports, reprints and other documents relating to a broad range of subjects connected with the Abraham Lincoln Brigade.
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Access Restrictions
Materials are open to researchers. Please contact the Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives for more information and to schedule an appointment, tamiment.wagner@nyu.edu or 212-998-2630.
Use Restrictions
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.
Preferred Citation
Identification of item, date (if known); Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives Subject Files; ALBA VF 001; Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archive, New York University.
To cite the archived website in this collection: Identification of item, date; Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives Subject Files; ALBA VF 001; Wayback URL; Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archive, New York University.
Provenance
The provenance of the materials is varied. Items were obtained through purchases, donations, standing orders with publishers, arrangements with organizations and bookstores, exchanges with other libraries, and through ongoing collecting by Tamiment staff.
http://www.alba-valb.org/ and http://albavolunteer.org/ were initially selected by curators and captured through the use of The California Digital Library's Web Archiving Service in 2008 and 2010, respectively, as part of the Other Left Activism Web Archive. In November 2015, this website was migrated to Archive-It. Archive-It uses web crawling technology to capture websites at a scheduled time and displays only an archived copy, from the resulting WARC file, of the website. In 2017, http://resources.alba-valb.org/ was added. In 2021, https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_eG6lzX4KJPYIHDZCb-LFw/videos/ was added. The accession number associated with this website is 2022.024. In 2023, https://www.youtube.com/@abrahamlincolnbrigadearchi4395/videos/ was added. The accession number associated with this website is 2023.086.
Take Down Policy
Archived websites are made accessible for purposes of education and research. NYU Libraries have given attribution to rights holders when possible; however, due to the nature of archival collections, we are not always able to identify this information.
If you hold the rights to materials in our archived websites that are unattributed, please let us know so that we may maintain accurate information about these materials.
If you are a rights holder and are concerned that you have found material on this website for which you have not granted permission (or is not covered by a copyright exception under US copyright laws), you may request the removal of the material from our site by submitting a notice, with the elements described below, to the special.collections@nyu.edu.
Please include the following in your notice: Identification of the material that you believe to be infringing and information sufficient to permit us to locate the material; your contact information, such as an address, telephone number, and email address; a statement that you are the owner, or authorized to act on behalf of the owner, of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed and that you have a good-faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; a statement that the information in the notification is accurate and made under penalty of perjury; and your physical or electronic signature. Upon receiving a notice that includes the details listed above, we will remove the allegedly infringing material from public view while we assess the issues identified in your notice.
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In March 2022, archived websites were added to the finding and additonal description was updated. In additional website was added in 2023.
