Spanish Civil War Postcard 018

Item

Front of postcard (recto). Image of a group of cartoon soldiers firing a flamethrower from behind a sandbag barricade. Two soldiers fire rifles at enemy soldiers from behind the barricade.
Back of postcard (verso). Image of a page with text. Full text includes "109 Loyalist Flame-thrower in Action In the late winter of 1937 the Loyalists had built an elaborate system of entrenchments in the East Park of Madrid and over a period of several months had offered desperate resistance to Franco's men, who were beaten back again and again. Whenever the fighting became close enough at hand the Government flame-throwers were put into action against the Rebel soldiers. The picture shows one of these engines of death in action. The man in the foreground has just touched off the flame-throwing machine and is directing its flesh-searing ammunition at the advancing troops. Already some of the Rebel soldiers are being caught in its fiery embrace while others are being picked off with the more deadly but less disfiguring fire from rifles. Sandbag parapets afforded excellent protection for the Loyalist troops in these entrenchments known as the "Reds' Hindenburg Line." To know the horrors of war is to want peace. This is one of 240 True Stories of Modern Warfare. Save to get them all and compete for 1000 Cash Prizes. Ask your dealer. Copyright 1938, GUM, INC., Phila., Pa. Printed in U.S.A."

Title

Spanish Civil War Postcard 018

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_000018
ALBA.242

Item sets

Spanish Civil War