Spanish Civil War Postcard 063

Item

Front of postcard (recto). Image of a cartoon man burying a body. A woman and small child watch the man. Another person bends down next to the grave. Next to the grave, there are two crutches on the ground. Behind the grave, there is another body on a hill. In the background, there is an explosion and four airplanes in the sky. The image shows hills and trees in the background.
Back of postcard (verso). Image of a page with text. Full text includes "276 Spanish Raid Refugees Bury Their Dead While Franco's Insurgent forces were striking savagely all along the Ebro front of September 2, 1938, in a sudden resumption of the stalled eastern offensive, his sinister bombers were bombing and machine-gunning civilians in Loyalist east-coast cities. The falling projectiles made no discrimination of their victims, killing the very young and the very old with utter disregard of their youthful innocence or aged helplessness. A band of fleeing refugees, caught in the deadly rain, were forced to bury their dead along the roadside in shallow, crudely dug graves, hardly daring to take time to cover the earth over the anguished form! The picture shows the little family gathered around the new-made grave which contains the un-coffined body of their crippled grandmother who was killed by shrapnel. Note the injured children among the mourners and the elderly victim's crutches now awaiting a new user! To know the horrors of war is to want peace This is one of the second serials 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. Print in U.S.A."

Title

Spanish Civil War Postcard 063

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_000063
ALBA.242

Item sets

Spanish Civil War