Spanish Civil War Postcard 061

Item

Front of postcard (recto). Image of a missile falling into a street or plaza. The street is filled with flowers, a handful of people, and buildings in the background. There are two explosions in the background and a plane in the sky overhead. In the foreground, there is a dead woman on the ground and a woman with flowers falling as a child holds her.
Back of postcard (verso). Image of a page with text. Full text includes "274 Rebels Bomb Barcelona's Flower Promenade On the eve of a new general offensive against Caralonia "to end the Civil War" the Spanish Insurgents loosed a heavy air raid on Barcelona on August 19, 1938. Between dawn and noon of that date the black bombers attacked three times. Twenty persons were killed and 100 were wounded. One heavy bomb crashed into the center of the "Rambla de las Flores," the city's famed Flower Promenade, destroying 12 houses. The Flower Promenade winds through the heart of Barcelona and has a tree-bordered central promenade with a network of narrow winding streets leading off from the center walk. Sections are devoted to markets of various kinds, several of the most attractive being used for the sale and display of flowers and birds. The picture shows how horror overtook the scene of beauty when the bomb struck. Note the flowers and shrubbery being torn up by shrapnel as shoppers were killed, children annihilated. 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 061

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_000061
ALBA.242

Item sets

Spanish Civil War