Spanish Civil War Postcard 015

Item

Front of postcard (recto). Image of a group of cartoon soldiers on horseback attacking an enemy group of soldiers. The soldiers on horses carry spear-like weapons. The soldiers on foot shoot rifles and pistols. In the foreground, there is a body on the ground being trampled by a horse. In the background, a foot soldier raises both arms in surrender. There are mountains in the background.
Back of postcard (verso). Image of a page with text. Full text includes "93 Crack Rebel Cavalry Attacks Loyalists On March 1, 1938, Colonel Ituarte Monasterio, the commander of Spanish Insurgent troops on the Teruel Front, sent his crack Navaresse calvary units into the hills surrounding this Rebel stronghold. Their orders were to crush bands of Government soldiers lying in ambush on the slopes and menacing Rebel positions on the road to Valencia. Absolutely fearless, these expert horsemen charged the various bands of dogged guerilla fighters, routing many from the vicinity. Armed with pistols and lances, they attacked the rifle-armed Government troops. As usual in a calvary charge many beautiful steeds were shot down under their riders while their brave masters were trampled in the skirmish or riddled with rifle fire. The Navaresses are natives of Navarre, a former kingdom of the western Pyrenees and adjacent parts of Spain and France, the nucleus of which was the Basque population of this region. 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 015

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_000015
ALBA.242

Item sets

Spanish Civil War