Spanish Civil War Postcard 009

Item

Front of postcard (recto). Image of a group of cartoon soldiers shooting canon-like weapons from snow-covered hills. In the background, there are houses and a few explosions in the air. In the foreground, two men ready another piece of ammunition. Two other soldiers load a piece of ammunition into the weapon.
Back of postcard (verso). Image of a page with text. Full text includes "68 Rebel Howitzers Attack in Snowstorm Rebel Spanish soldiers, striking back at Loyalist lines at Teruel on December 29, 1937, in a howling blizzard, brought their heavy German-made Howitzers into action. These are the best general service howitzers produced in quantity. Those shown in the picture are howitzers of the 7-inch, siege, breech-loading type. The men directly behind the gun are in the act of loading a shell in the open breech. Others at the left of the gun have just removed a shell from the ammunition case and are setting the time fuse before passing it over to the gun crew. Howitzers are designed to throw shells with medium velocities and usually at angles between 15 and 45 degrees. They are able to reach an object, sheltered from direct fire of guns, by indirect or curved fire, sometimes at very high angles. The destruction possibilities of howitzer shells are due more to the force of a large charge of high explosive bursting rather than to great speed in flight. To know the horrors of war is to want peace This is one of a series of 240 True Stories of Modern Warfare. Save to get them all. Copyright 1938, GUM, INC., Phila., Pa."

Title

Spanish Civil War Postcard 009

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_000009
ALBA.242

Item sets

Spanish Civil War