Spanish Civil War Postcard 060

Item

Front of postcard (recto). Image of a group or battalion of cartoon soldiers crossing mountains while under attack. Several planes in the sky overhead drop missiles on top of the lines of soldiers. In the foreground, there is a dead body and a soldier using a rifle to shoot at a plane. Five explosions can be seen throughout the line of soldiers.
Back of postcard (verso). Image of a page with text. Full text includes "262 Rebels Drop Curtain of Fire in Ebro On August 3, 1938, the Rebels reported that an incessant bombardment by hundreds of warplanes had stopped the Government's offensive along the pontoon-ribboned Ebro River in Catalonia. The curtain of fire was described as so intense that the Government forces were completely disorganized and unable to reform their lines! Although Loyalist dispatches admitted the attack they maintained that their commanders continued pouring men, tanks and artillery across the Ebro into the Gandesa sector despite almost a week of Rebel attempts to destroy the pontoon bridges in the river and cut off the Government forces. The Government's new maneuver of striking quickly first in one sector and then in another forced the Rebels to create a mobile rear guard, thus weakening the front line defenses, according to Loyalist reports. To know the horrors of war is to want peace This is one of the second series of Horrors of War picture cards and true stories of today's warfare. Save to get a complete history. Copyright 1938, Gum, Inc., Phila., Pa. Printed in U.S.A."

Title

Spanish Civil War Postcard 060

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_000060
ALBA.242

Item sets

Spanish Civil War