The Spanish Civil War

The Graphic Arts Collection holds several billboard-size propaganda posters from the Spanish Civil War, 1936 to 1939. Here is one honoring Madrid’s elite 5th Regiment and one from the Delegacion de Propaganda y Prensa del C.E.P. Valencia.

 

 

Juan Borrás Casanova (1909-1987), Los trabajadores españoles luchan por la libertad y la cultura de todos los pueblos. ¡Solidarizaros con ellos! = Spanish Workers Fight for the Freedom and Culture of All Peoples. Work with them! (Valencia: Delegación de Propaganda y Prensa del C.E.P. de Valencia, printed by Ortega, 1936). Graphic Arts Collection GAX in process

 

[below] 5o Regimiento. Los Cazadores de Lanques Fascistas: Coll, Carrasco, Cornejo, Grao, Molina. Honor y Gloria a Los Hijos del Pueblo (Madrid: printed by Graficas Reunidas, U.H.P., ca. 1937). Graphic Arts Collection GAX in process.

The Fifth Regiment (Spanish: Quinto Regimiento, full name Quinto Regimiento de Milicias Populares), was an elite corps loyal to the Spanish Republic at the onset of the Spanish Civil War. Made up of volunteers, the Fifth Regiment was active in the first critical phase of the war and became one of the most renowned units loyal to the Republic.—Eduardo Comín Colomer, El 5º Regimiento de Milicias Populares. Madrid 1973.