Tag: Abraham Lincoln Brigade

In a stunning Bancroft Library photo archive, ghosts of the Spanish Civil War

October 6, 2011:

This year marks the 75th anniversary of the onset of the Spanish Civil War. Cal alum Robert Ropert, writing in California Magazine, describes his accidental discovery of a stunning trove of photos donated to the Bancroft Library a quarter century ago — depicting the Abraham Lincoln Brigade and, it turns out, war correspondent Ernest Hemingway.