Spanish Civil War Postcard 022

Item

Front of postcard (recto). Image of three cartoon planes flying above a city. Below the planes, there are several large explosions and flames among the buildings. In the background, there is a body of water behind the city.
Back of postcard (verso). Image of a page with text. Full text includes "113 Franco's Planes Strafe Barcelona by Night Starting Wednesday night March 16, 1938, a series of terrible new air raids by Generalissimo Franco's bombing planes caused the most horrible civilian slaughter of the civil war, which entered its twenty-first month on March 17. Incendiary bombs, which burst into sheets of fire as they fell, burned up one whole block of buildings near the uptown section, and the flames were visible for many miles. The Rebel attackers came back the next night under a bright moon and circled leisurely across the suffering city. As they flew they dropped great 650-pound bombs, and the Loyalist anti-aircraft guns replied from below with flashing tracer bullets, seeking out the positions of the black-tipped bombers. Red Cross workers said the exact toll of dead would perhaps never be known because many of the victims were torn to bits and others burned to death in their blazing homes! 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 022

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_000022
ALBA.242

Item sets

Spanish Civil War