Spanish Civil War Postcard 019

Item

Front of postcard (recto). Image of a group of cartoon people running out of a flooded space. A crowd pushes up a staircase. There is a burst pipe with mice on the left. In the foreground, a man helps a woman up and another woman holds onto a rope.
Back of postcard (verso). Image of a page with text. Full text includes "110 Rebel Bomb Floods Air Raid Shelter On Sunday morning January 30, 1938, immediately following an announcement from Franco's headquarters at Salamanca that its bombing of towns was justified and would continue, Rebel bombers roared over the Loyalist provisional capital Barcelona, dropping their deadly missiles. The first attack began at 9:05 a. m., and for five minutes the center of the city roared with the noise of bursting bombs, crashing walls, and screams of pain. One bomb fell into the ruins of a tenement. It bit through five stories to the cellar in which huddled 300 terrified men, women and children who had gathered there to escape the bombing. As the bomb exploded it broke open water pipes causing water to rush forth and fill the basement. All means of exit had been closed by the bursting projectile and so the entire group was drowned, amidst scenes of unbelievable horrors. 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 019

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_000019
ALBA.242

Item sets

Spanish Civil War