The Spanish Civil War: The International Brigades (The concentration camp at the Monastery of San Pedro de Cardenas, Burgos)
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(1) Photograph of a cover postmarked 23 Jul 1938. Burgos to Canada. Addressed to Miss Ruth Hewitt from the collection of C. Cosentino. (2) Cover postmarked 15 November 1938. Burgos to Canada. Addressed to Miss Ruth Hewitt.
The Spanish Civil War: The International Brigades (The concentration camp at the Monastery of San Pedro de Cardenas, Burgos)
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(1) Image depicting prisoners of war at the concentration camp. (2) Postcard postmarked 9 February 1939. From a worker at the San Pedro camp. 'CENSURA MILITAR/CAMPO DE CARDENA.'
The Spanish Civil War: The International Brigades (Official photographs)
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(1) Official photograph published in ABC on 2 June 1937 depicting International Brigaders in their primitive clothes. (2) Official photograph published in ABC on 2 June 1937 depicting International Brigaders in clothes provided to them by the Generalissimo. Headed 'SALAMANCA-International Brigade...
The Spanish Civil War: The International Brigades (Prisons)
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Letter from Tenient Lantex, El Comandante del Castillo at Castelldefels reporting that James Fischer, a deserter from Benicasim was arrested on 24 March 1938.
The Spanish Civil War: The International Brigades (Prisoners of War)
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(1) Image depicting Carl Geiser, the most senior American to be captured in the Spanish Civil war. (2) Image depicting Carl Geiser's prisoner of war record.
The Spanish Civil War: The International Brigades (An unusual item)
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Postcard postmarked 6 January 1939. Albacete to Paris, returned to Burgos. Instead of going back into what was left of Republican Spain it went to the Nationalist side where it made its way to General Franco's Headquarters at Burgos. Circular mark of 'CUARTEL GENERAL/DEL GENERALISMO/CANRUA MILITAR.'
The Spanish Civil War: The International Brigades (Refugee camps in France)
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(1) Image depicting a bird's eye view of the refugee camp at Gurs, France. (2) Cover postmarked 5 December 1939. From Juillac, Correze to the Camp at Gurs. From an Italian at Juillac to an Italian at Gurs.
The Spanish Civil War: The International Brigades (Refugee camps in France)
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(1) Cover postmarked 25 Aug 1939. From Islote G. GRUP PORTUGUES, Camp at Gurs to the Refugee camp at Labene. (2) Cover postmark indescipherable. From the Camp at Argeles sur Mer to Alfred Dietrich, GRUPO ALLEMAN, Camp at Gurs.
The Spanish Civil War: The International Brigades (Refugee camps in France)
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(1) Letter from a Spaniard in the Refugee camp at Septfonds, France to the Secretary of the International Brigade 'Lincoln' in New York. (2) Associated cover.