Spanish Civil War Postcard 058

Item

Front of postcard (recto). Image of a group of cartoon soldiers storming a smokey or foggy field. The soldiers emerge from a trench. In the trench, there are two soldiers with boxes. In the background, there are canons and airplanes behind the trench. Past the fog, there are mountains and two small explosions.
Back of postcard (verso). Image of a page with text. Full text includes "214 "Over the Top" with Hand Grenades While Rebel warships off the Mediterranean shore were shattering Loyalist coastal defenses, on April 28, 1938, the Twenty-second Loyalist Brigade, armed only with hand grenades, was meeting its doom in a frenzied battle north of Castellon de la Plana. Low-hanging clouds over the battlefield prevented action by Loyalist field artillery and kept their planes grounded. Thousands of cases of hand grenades were brought up to the Loyalists' front-line trenches in relays and the Government supporters, thus armed, went "over the top." They were met by such an intense fire from the Rebel lines that most of the Twenty-second Brigade were killed, wounded or captured. The picture shows the Loyalists advancing, at a signal, out of the protection of their trenches into the perils of "No Man's Land." Note the rapidly emptying hand grenade cases in the foreground. 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 058

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_000058
ALBA.242

Item sets

Spanish Civil War