Collection: ELKAN VERA

Photography by Vera Elkan showing the International Brigade during the Spanish Civil War December 1936 - January 1937. Includes coverage of German, French and British recruits at the Albacete training base; the Italian Brigade on the Guaderamas Front; international journalists at work; scenes at a hospital in Valencia including the work of blood transfusion teams; scenes in Madrid including air raid casualties and defences in the University Quarter. The collection, first copied in 1996, then acquired in July 2008, consists of 240 nitrate negatives (200 copied HU 71499 - HU 71698) as well as 152 prints from the collection and a video of Vera Elkan's film "International Brigade".