Spanish Civil War Postcard 062

Item

Front of postcard (recto). Image of two cartoon men in uniforms loading brown bags onto a submarine. Another man hands the bags to the uniformed men from a truck on a harbor-like space. In the background, there is an explosion on the water and three planes flying overhead. Two men stand on the corner of the harbor and watch the explosion.
Back of postcard (verso). Image of a page with text. Full text includes "275 Loyalists Adopt Submarine Mail Service In war or in peace the mail service cannot be interrupted and in Loyalist Spain today the postal authorities are carrying on under the most trying conditions. Mail trains have been bombed, mail planes have been shot down. Despite interruptions, however, the service has continued, even to the extent of sending the mail to distant ports via undersea boats, a service that was inaugurated on August 21, 1938. The submarine postal service was begun while planes roared in combat overhead. Six Rebel planes approached Barcelona during the loading of the undersea craft and were driven off by Loyalist pursuit planes, before the Insurgent bombers had an opportunity to do any damage. The picture shows how the mail was placed on the submarine. Trucks containing mail bags marked "Correo," Spanish word for Mail, rolled down to the wharf, and bags of letters were tossed into the open hatch of the sub. 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 062

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_000062
ALBA.242

Item sets

Spanish Civil War