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Pablo Picasso's Guernica and Modern War
An excerpt from a US propaganda pamphlet supporting the Nationalists in the Spanish Civil War, 1936.

An excerpt from a US propaganda pamphlet supporting the Nationalists in the Spanish Civil War, 1936.

This is a 1936 political pamphlet by Edward Lodge Curran, a Roman Catholic priest from New York, written in support of the Nationalist rebellion and denouncing the Spanish Republic for its communist and anti-religious ideas.

Citation Information
Curran, Edward Lodge, excerpt from “Spain in arms : with notes on communism,” Digital Public Library of America, https://dp.la/item/a451bcf99a316eed8d8b99cce9009630.
Note: These citations are programmatically generated and may be incomplete.
Courtesy of Boston College Libraries via Boston Library Consortium and Internet Archive.

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Item 10 of 14 in the Primary Source Set Pablo Picasso's Guernica and Modern War

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A 1937 photograph by David Seymour of Pablo Picasso in front of his painting Guernica.
A sheet of sketches from Picasso’s Sueño y mentira de Franco (The Dream and Lie of Franco), 1937.
An excerpt from a catalog for a Surrealist art exhibition in New York, 1942.
A newspaper photograph of destroyed buildings in Guernica after the bombing on April 26, 1937.
A photograph of soldiers from the German Luftwaffe’s Condor Legion marching past Adolf Hitler, 1939.
(Warning: graphic material) A propaganda poster including photographs of dead civilians after the bombing of Barcelona on January 30, 1938.
(Warning: graphic material) An excerpt of footage taken during the Spanish Civil War from a US propaganda film, 1942.
A photograph from the Associated Press of Great Britain documenting Spanish war refugees entering France, January 1939.
A Spanish child’s drawing of ground soldiers and planes dropping bombs, created between 1936 and 1938.
An excerpt from a US propaganda pamphlet supporting the Nationalists in the Spanish Civil War, 1936.
An excerpt from a letter written by a Catholic group in the US denouncing the Spanish Republic’s anti-religious beliefs, 1937.
A Spanish propaganda poster honoring the Republican Air Force, 1938.
A Republican propaganda poster featuring a mother and child, 1937.
Pablo Picasso’s painting The Charnel House, 1944-1945.

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