Spanish Civil War Postcard 010

Item

Front of postcard (recto). Image of a cartoon car caught in an explosion. A woman's body hangs out of the driver's seat. There are two bodies in the rear seats. The car's front is covered by an explosion. Behind the car, there is another explosion and smoke covering pieces of debris. In the background, there are wrecked buildings and several explosions. There is a dead man on the ground in the foreground. Rubble covers the ground.
Back of postcard (verso). Image of a page with text. Full text includes "69 Gun Shells Daring War Reporters in Spain On the last day of December, 1937, four reporters--two of them Americans--were riding in an automobile close to the battlefront at Teruel, Spain. Their enthusiasm had made them careless of the grave danger surrounding them. Suddenly a 75-millimeter shell made a direct hit on the car, showering the occupants with deadly shrapnel and fragments of the demolished automobile! Bradish Gaillard Johnson, Jr., an American, died of chest wounds; E. S. R. Sheepshanks, English, succumbed to shrapnel wounds about the face. Harry Philby of the London Times recovered from a head wound, but Edward J. Neil, an American, Associated Press reporter, later died of a thigh injury. After the shell had struck, friends of the dead and wounded hurried them over the snow-covered roadway to the hospital at Zaragoza where Sheepshanks died. "Eddie" Neil followed him on January 2. His last words were: "Well, I guess the war is over for me!" 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 010

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_000010
ALBA.242

Item sets

Spanish Civil War