Spanish Civil War Postcard 042

Item

Front of postcard (recto). Image of cartoon soldiers running into a body of water to avoid enemy fire. There are two planes and a tank firing at the soldiers. In the background, there are mountains and explosions.
Back of postcard (verso). Image of a page with text. Full text includes "162 Spanish Volunteers Swim Icy River On April 2, 1938, Gandesa fell during the Insurgent push to the Mediterranean and a whole battalion of the International Brigade was nearly wiped out. This brigade had made a last stand before Gandesa with the enemy's mechanized columns and tanks already past them. After bitter fighting the battalion was split into two parts, one going south, the other east. One group wandered into enemy lines at night and had to break across an open field to reach the Ebro River and possible safety. Arriving at this swift-flowing stream a handful of them stripped off their clothes and dived into the icy water to swim across so as to make a last effort to rejoin the brigade. Four of them who had been wounded drowned, while the balance braved the risk of enemy fire controlled by an obervation plane overhead. Another battalion further north on the Ebro found boats and crossed safely. 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 042

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_000042
ALBA.242

Item sets

Spanish Civil War