Spanish Civil War Postcard 052

Item

Front of postcard (recto). Image of cartoon soldiers under attack. Five soldiers fire rifles and throw other weapons from a trench in the foreground. In the background, there is an explosion and a few men can be seen approaching the trench. There is a house and trees in the background.
Back of postcard (verso). Image of a page with text. Full text includes "187 Rebels Halted with Flares and Grenades During the night of April 5, 1938, when Rebel bombers were unable to see their objectives, Loyalist militiamen made a counterattack at Tortosa and drove the Insurgent forces out of several positions conquered the day before in bitter hand-to-hand fighting. The Rebels' usual maneuver of surrounding a city before conquering it was wrecked during the night when wave after wave of these militiamen began throwing light flares to expose the enemy and then hand grenades to drive back Franco's units which had been reported at the very gates of the city. Artillery batteries were rushed to the area by the Government, both from the Madrid and Catalan fronts. The picture shows some of these light flares slowly descending on small parachutes shot out of Very guns. The effect of the light is one of dazzling brightness. (Very, after Lt. Samuel W. Very who invented it in 1877.) 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 052

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_000052
ALBA.242

Item sets

Spanish Civil War