Spanish Civil War Postcard 054

Item

Front of postcard (recto). Image of three cartoon children and a dog sitting on top of debris. One child cries and holds the dog's paw. The other two children embrace. In the background, there is a line of people walking away from the foreground. There are wrecked buildings and a mountain in the background.
Back of postcard (verso). Image of a page with text. Full text includes "190 The Homeless Children of Spain Behind the lines of battle in Spain's Civil War is the helplessness of hungry, homeless children. In the Insurgent city of Oviedo only two or three houses remain undamaged, yet every day more refugees return to seek shelter in cellars or in the remains of rooms. Children huddle among the ruins, bewildered, starving, ragged. Many of the boys and girls are so weak that only milk and a well balanced diet can save them. But there is no milk and no proper diet except for the few being cared for in colonies with foreign help. Children in some cities go with their mothers to relief headquarters to get the piece of laundry soap now given to every refugee twice a week. To see the eagerness with which the young ones reach for the soap is to understand how much it is valued! Dirt, scabies and vermin exist to such an extent that typhus could easily become an epidemic. 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 054

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_000054
ALBA.242

Item sets

Spanish Civil War