Spanish Civil War Postcard 011

Item

Front of postcard (recto). Image of a cartoon train exploding. The train explodes on the rails inside of a station. The windows of the train are shattered and the explosion picks nearby people up into the air. A cloud of smoke surrounds the ceiling of the station. There is a man's body on the train tracks.
Back of postcard (verso). Image of a page with text. Full text includes "70 Subway Blast Kills Madrid Civilians One of the greatest tragedies of the Spanish Civil War occurred in Madrid on Monday, January 10, 1938, when munitions, hidden in a subway station, exploded! The blast occurred just as a crowded subway train was entering the station in the Ventas district of the city, laden with the usual 7 o'clock swarm of workers. The explosive war materials had been placed there by Loyalist sympathizers to be used at some later date against the Rebel army. Early reports stated that 100 people were killed and eight blocks of buildings damaged. Later figures, however, set the total deaths at 700. An extensive area nearly 1100 yards long and 220 yards wide was wrecked. The force of the explosion tore great craters in the street and injured many people in the surrounding buildings which were shaken by the detonation. Whether a spark set off the explosions or whether they were discovered by Rebels and ignited purposely was not determined. 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 011

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_000011
ALBA.242

Item sets

Spanish Civil War