Spanish Civil War Postcard 004

Item

Front of postcard (recto). Image of a cartoon building on fire. There is a crowd outside of the building with pitchforks, torches, rifles, and swords. Men and women help hang two people. Another man is tied into a noose. In the foreground, one man punches another. There is a large dark cloud of smoke coming from the building.
Back of postcard (verso). Image of a page with text. Full text includes "No. 42 Mob Burns a Madrid Cathedral After two years of tyranny another Leftist Government was swept into power in Spain in 1936. Although it proceeded to jail thousands of Rightists on suspicion, it did not prosecute leaders of its own mobs who burned churches, monasteries and convents; lynched priests and civilians. In March, 1936, a wild rumor was circulated in Madrid to the effect that nuns had given poisoned candy to Leftist children. Class hatreds fanned the flames. Fire brands were wielded. The mad mob marched on the beautiful Church of San Luis, situated in the center of Madrid, applied their torches to its scared walls. When they had completed their dastardly work the magnificent building was gutted by fire and several priests had been taken out and lynched. Before the War broke out in July of the same year, 170 churches had been utterly destroyed; 251 partly destroyed; hundreds of innocent people killed. To know the horrors of war is to want peace This is one of a series of 240 Picture Cards. Save to get them all. Picture and Text Copyright 1938, GUM, INC., Phila., Pa."

Title

Spanish Civil War Postcard 004

Rights

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.

Type

Still Image

Creator

Tamiment Library

Date

c. 1936-1938
1980-2000s

Language

Spanish

Publisher

Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Archive

Identifier

tw_scp_000004
ALBA.242

Item sets

Spanish Civil War