Spanish Civil War Postcard 014

Item

Front of postcard (recto). Image of a group of cartoon soldiers climbing out of a flooding trench. In the foreground, two soldiers help lift an injured soldier out of the trench. Two soldiers reach at the trench walls. In the background, a soldier helps pull up another soldier from the ledge of the trench. There are explosions and canons in the background. There are sandbags along the edge of the trench.
Back of postcard (verso). Image of a page with text. Full text includes "91 Floods Wash Out Fighting in Spain While bitter fighting was going on between the Insurgent and Government forces on the broad Aragon Front, the Ebro River overflowed its banks, sheeting wide areas in the valleys. Torrential rains over a period of many days were responsible for the high water. The angry deluge flooded roads and railways in Government territory near Huesca, and filled trenches throughout the battle zone, driving the Valencia troops to higher ground. The wounded who lay in anguish as the waters rose about them were trapped like rats. Others, more fortunate, were removed by their comrades to the hills...in full view of the enemy. The Gallego River, rushing down from the French Frontier to join the Ebro at the Insurgent base, was at its highest level in twenty years--twenty one feet above normal! By October 29, 1937, some of the principal battlegrounds of this front were under several feet of water. 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 014

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_000014
ALBA.242

Item sets

Spanish Civil War