Spanish Civil War Postcard 051

Item

Front of postcard (recto). Image of soldiers fighting in between buildings. An enemy unit shoots from behind a rock barricade. The soldiers approach the barricade with a tank assisting them. There are several dead bodies on the ground. In the background, there are other buildings.
Back of postcard (verso). Image of a page with text. Full text includes "186 Rebels Brave Machine Guns at Lerida The ancient city of Lerida fell into the hands of the Rebels at 7 p.m. on April 3, 1938, as converging columns entered the stronghold over the same rutted streets through which Cesar marched in 47 B.C. to seize Lerida from Pompey. The Loyalists had staked their last counterattack at 6:30 when the Rebel infantry surged through the city in a tank-supported charge up steeply inclined streets blocked by machine gun nests and barricades. A half hour later the remnant of the Government troops were fleeing eastward across the Segre River. More than 15,000 losses were said to have been suffered by the Government, including dead, wounded and prisoners. Capture of this walled city, on top of a rugged hill on the Segre River, placed the Rebel armies only 84 miles by highway and 80 miles in a direct line from the Loyalist capital at Barcelona. 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. Print in U.S.A. "

Title

Spanish Civil War Postcard 051

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_000051
ALBA.242

Item sets

Spanish Civil War