Spanish Civil War Postcard 053

Item

Front of postcard (recto). Image of cartoon soldiers attacking a tall wall and building in the mountains. There is a tank assisting the soldiers. Next to the building, there is part of a crane. The soldiers carry rifles.
Back of postcard (verso). Image of a page with text. Full text includes "188 Rebels Cut off Barcelona Power On April 7, 1938, the Rebels captured five big hydro-electric plants in the Noguera-Pallaresa Valley of Northeasten Spain and severed about 80 percent of the power serving Government war industries in Caralonia. The plants were seized after bitter fighting outside Tremp, which is 18 miles above the Noguera plants, and the fields were sown with dead. A column of African Moors and whippet tanks driving northward from Balahuer seized these plants 23 miles north of conquered Lerida and 75 miles northwest of Barcelona. The main power cables supplying Barcelona were immediately cut. This action deprived Barcelona and Catalonia of 286,000 kilowatts of power. The next day, while heading for more power plants, Franco's troops' capture of the Tremp dam scotched a Government plan to send a huge flood of 7,000,000,000 feet of water roaring down the Segre and Ebro River valleys. 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 053

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_000053
ALBA.242

Item sets

Spanish Civil War