Spanish Civil War Posters | Collection Highlights | Collection of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Spanish Civil War poster. Elongated female figure with blue sweater, black shorts, and orange ankle weights. She carries a large brown backpack, and leans over with hands on her knees. Above, white text in caps: UNION; in blue script: de; white text in caps: MUCHACHAS; bottom left below figure, blue text in small caps: CAMPAMENTO / DEPORTIVO / MINISTERIO DE INSTRUCCION / PUBLICA Y SANIDAD; bottom right, orange text in small caps: PATROCINADO / POR EL CONSEJO DE EDUCACION / FISICA Y DEPORTES. (Girls League Sports Camp Ministry of Public Health Instruction sponsored by Physical Education and Sports)

Poster, Union de Muchachas/ Campamento Deportivo (Girls League Sports Camp),...
lithograph on wove paper.
Gift of William P. Mangold.
1997-21-1

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Poster, Las Milicias de la Cultura/Luchan Contra el Fascismo Combatiendo la...
lithograph on paper.
Gift of William P. Mangold.
1997-21-2

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Spanish Civil War poster. Two soldiers fighting in front of barbed wire fence; one soldier has a Nazi armband. Upper right, in red and white text: 1936 / 18 DE JULIO / 1937 (July 18, 1936-1937); below, in red text: BARDASANO.

Poster, 1936/ 18 de Julio/ 1937 (July 18, 1936-1937), 1937
lithograph on paper.
Gift of William P. Mangold.
1997-21-3

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Poster, ¡Avancemos! /Partido Socialista (We Go Forward! Socialist Party),...
lithograph on paper.
Gift of William P. Mangold.
1997-21-4

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Spanish Civil War poster. Heads of three men

Poster, ¡Colectivistas del Campo! el Ministro de Agricultura os Ayuda...
lithograph on paper.
Gift of William P. Mangold.
1997-21-5

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.

Spanish Civil War poster. On a red and white gradient ground, two close-ups of black and white photographs of a man plowing with two donkeys, and another featuring a man on a tractor in a field. Above, white and black text: CAMPESINO / AHORA QUE TIENES LA TIERRA, (Peasant: Now that you have the land); below in black and red text: ESCOJE / ENTRE LOS 2 / CAMINOS (choose between the two routes); las / granjas-escuela / y la catedra-ambulante / de agricultura / te capacitaron / para tu / liberacion.

Poster, Campesino: Ahora que tienes la tierra, escoje entre los dos caminos...
lithograph on paper.
Gift of William P. Mangold.
1997-21-6

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Spanish Civil War poster. Five photographic views of facilities for refugee children; left margin pictures a woman with child on lap. Across the top of the poster: Residencias; below: SON TRATADOS MATERNALMENTE / LOS MEJORES HOTELES SON / HABILITADOS PARA RESIDENCIA / DE LOS NIÑOS REFUGIOS. (Residences are treated with motherly care, the best hotels are enabled as residences for refugee children)

Poster, Residencias (Residences), 1930s
lithograph on paper.
Gift of William P. Mangold.
1997-21-7

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Spanish Civil War poster. Beach scene with photographic close-up of child at school. Text: COLABORA con el / SOCORRO ROJO / INTERNACTIONAL / EN SU LABOR DE / AYUDA AL NIÑO. (Collaborate with the International Red Aid in their efforts to help the child)

Poster, Colabora con el/socorro rojo/internacional/en su labor de/ayuda al...
lithograph on paper.
Gift of William P. Mangold.
1997-21-8

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Spanish Civil War poster. Large red male figure wearing a beret on a yellow ground. In front of him UHP entangled in barbed wire. Upper right, in red and black: ¡AYUDA! / A LAS / FAMILIAS / DE LOS / COMPATIENTES / DEL / NORTE; at center, in white: ASTURIAS / OCTUBRE – 1934-1937. In green text lower margin: SOCORRO ROJO DE ESPANA / GRAFICAS VALENCIA intervenido U.G.T.-C.N.T. (Help! The families of the fighters from the North, Asturias, October 1934-1937, International Red Aid of Spain, Valencia Graphics U.G.T-C.N.T)

Poster, ¡Ayuda! A Las Familias de Los Combatientes del Norte/ Asturias/...
lithograph on paper.
Gift of William P. Mangold.
1997-21-9

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Spanish Civil War poster. Swastika framing photographic images of destruction, death, etc., with text in dark red: ¡ESTO ES EL / FASCISMO! In blue, lower left: SOCORRO / ROJO / INTERNACIONAL. (This is Fascism! International Red Aid)

Poster, ¡Esto es el fascismo! miseria...destrucción...persecución...y...
lithograph on paper.
Gift of William P. Mangold.
1997-21-10

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

Spanish Civil War poster. Three soldiers make oath to Queen dressed in purple. Text in white, below: JULIO 1936 [symbol of Madrid propaganda ministry] JULIO 1937 / UNIDOS EN LA RETAGUARDIA COMO EN LA / VANGUARDIA PARA GANAR LA GUERRA. (United in the rear as at the front in order to win the war: July 1936-July 1937)

Poster, Julio 1936/ Julio 1937/ Unidos en la retaguardia como en la...
lithograph on paper.
Gift of William P. Mangold.
1997-21-11

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

Spanish Civil War poster. Red star with M.C. superimposed. In orange, black, and blue text: Milicias de la cultura/ ha ensenado a/ leer y/ escribir/ en/ un mes 13,142 / soldados analfabetos / MINISTERIO DE INSTRUCCION / PUBLICA Y SANIDAD. (Militias of Culture/ have taught/ 13,142/ illiterate soldiers/ to read and/ write/ in/ one month/ MINISTRY OF PUBLIC EDUCATION AND HEALTH).

Poster, Milicias de la Cultura/ ha ensenado a/ leer y/ escribir/ en/ un mes...
lithograph on paper.
Gift of William P. Mangold.
1997-21-12

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Spanish Civil War poster. Peasant woman holds up basket of potatoes.

Poster, Campesinos: la recoleccion es indispensable para nuestra victoria/ es...
lithograph on paper.
Gift of William P. Mangold.
1997-21-13

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.

Poster, S.E. el generalisimo (S.E. the supreme commander), 1937
lithograph on paper.
Gift of William P. Mangold.
1997-21-14

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

A large drinking glass blasts forward from explosion; red sparks on black background; two male figures below the glass fly outward. Text in red script, top: El agua/ en malas/ condiciones; Text in white caps, lower left: PRODUCE MAS BAJAS QUE LA METRALLA. (Poisoned water causes more casualties than the bullets)

Poster, El agua en malas condiciones produce mas bajas que la metralla...
lithograph on paper.
Gift of William P. Mangold.
1997-21-15

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.

Spanish Civil War poster. Brown-skinned man dressed in blue clutches a rifle and raises his left fist in defiance. His figure is superimposed over a photo montage of newsprint, armed soldiers at left and rural workers and a hand putting a coin into a cup initialed with SRI at right. Soldiers with canon and rifles at bottom. Title across top, price (10 cts) of sheet at right.

Poster, El Mono Azul/ Hoja semanal/ Los Traidores/ de la Alianza de...
lithograph on wove paper.
Gift of William P. Mangold.
1997-21-16

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.

Spanish Civil War poster. Two soldiers, rendered in green, with fixed bayonets stand behind a house of cards, decorated with antique tarot motifs. Bottom right, in image: JUNTA DELEGADA DE DEFENSA DE MADRID - DELEGACION DE PROPAGANDA Y PRENSA (with official crest) (Joined Defense Delegation of Madrid-Delegation of Propaganda and Press); bottom left, below image: SINDICATO PROFESIONALES BELLAS ARTES, U.G.T. (Professional Fine Arts Union); bottom right, below image: RIVADENEYRA C.O. - MADRID

Poster, ¡Basta de "Ensayos" y "Proyectos"!/ ¡Primero Ganar la Guerra!...
lithograph on wove paper/newsprint.
Gift of William P. Mangold.
1997-21-17

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.

Spanish Civil War poster. Reproduces the front page of the Italian newspaper, Il Populo, published in Rome, 27 Augosto 1937, stating Mussolini’s intentions of invading Spain. At bottom, "¡Long Live Independent Spain!" "¡Long Live the Republic!"

Poster, ¡Soldados del Ejercito Popular! /¡Españoles todos! (Soldiers of...
lithograph on wove paper.
Gift of William P. Mangold.
1997-21-19

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.

Spanish Civil War poster. Seen from the back, a muscular man pushes a young child up toward the letters URSS that stand out against glowing yellow and orange light against stylized wheat. The figures are strongly faceted and rendered in red. The legend across the bottom of posters is blue and black. A section of machinery is at left, suggesting the promise of union between agriculture and industry.

Poster, URSS: XX Aniversario del la URSS./ Comision Nacional de Homenaje...
lithograph on wove paper/newsprint.
Gift of William P. Mangold.
1997-21-20

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.

Male peasant holding a gardening tool above his head; field of hills and large white clouds in background. Red and black text, upper left: Campesinos:/ para acabar con; yellow text, bottom left: la; text in white caps diagonally across field, bottom half: ESPECULACIÓN; yellow and red text, bottom right: solo hay/ un medio/ la / Cooperativa. (Peasants: in order to stop the speculation, there is only one way, the co-operative)

Poster, Campesinos: Para Acabar con la Especulación Solo Hay un Medio la...
lithograph on paper.
Gift of William P. Mangold.
1997-21-21

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.

Poster, F.P.C./ F.E.T.T/ Campesinos/Vuestra Unidad es la/Victoria (F.P.C...
lithograph on wove paper.
Gift of William P. Mangold.
1997-21-22

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.

Spanish Civil War poster. Photographically-derived image of two girls huddled together under a stone arch. They look anxiously at the sky. Across top of image: La aviación fascista pasa sobre la capital/ de la República./ ¿Haces tú algo para evitar esto? ( A fascist plane flies over the capital of the Republic. Are you doing something to avoid this?); at bottom of image: AYUDA A MADRID (Help Madrid).

Poster, Ayuda a Madrid (Help Madrid), 1936–37
lithograph on wove paper.
Gift of William P. Mangold.
1997-21-23

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.

Spanish Civil War poster. In a warship labeled JUNTA DE BURGOS/ LISBOA," (Burgos/Lisboa Militia) the enemies of the revolution prepare to enter Spain. Cartoon renditions of the aristocracy, the Moor, the Turk, the fascist/capitalist, and the church. The map of Spain hangs from a gallows surmounted by a vulture. Three armed men peer from port holes.

Poster, Los Nacionales (The Nationalists), ca. 1937
lithograph on wove paper/newsprint.
Gift of William P. Mangold.
1997-21-24

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.

Poster, ¡Callad! ¡El espia os escucha!...(Silence! The spy hears us!),...
lithograph on wove paper.
Gift of William P. Mangold.
1997-21-25

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.

Spanish Civil War poster. A large yellow piece of machinery atop a red and gray magnet at top right pulls surrendering soldiers, rendered in flat black and gray, toward a fence. Text, lower right, in red: LA AGITACION ENTRE EL ENEMIGO (Agitation within the enemy); top left, printed signature: MELENDRERAS; top left, below signature is a star within a circle surrounded with: COMISARIADO GENERAL DE GUERRA-COMISION DE PROPAGANDA-INSPECCION CENTRO (War General Curator- Commission of Propaganda- Central Inspection); left, below image: SINDICATO DE PROFESIONALES DE LAS BELLAS ARTES, U.G.T. (Fine Art Professionals Union, U.G.T); right, below image: RIVADENEYRA C.O. MADRID

Poster, La Agitacion Entre el Enemigo/Acerca el Dia de Nuestra Victoria...
lithograph on wove paper/newsprint.
Gift of William P. Mangold.
1997-21-26

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.

Spanish Civil War poster. Marching soldier with a rifle in blue alongside marching farm worker in yellow. Text in blue at top and in yellow across bottom. Publisher's name in blue along left edge.

Poster, ¡No Pasarán!/ Julio 1936/ Julio 1937/ ¡Pasaremos! (They Shall Not...
lithograph on wove paper.
Gift of William P. Mangold.
1997-21-27

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.

Spanish Civil War poster. Large image of man's head, wearing black beret and looking up dominates left side. He has a tool (possibly shovel) over his shoulder (in partial view). Large hand gripping tool in the foreground. Image of rolling hills and valley with river flowing into dam. Image of farmland and factory with red smoke stacks and electrical power lines at lower left. Imprinted in red and black, across top: LA REPUBLICA CREA/ el fascismo/ DESTRUYE (The Republic creates, Fascism destroys); imprinted in color of the paper and sky blue, across bottom: EL PANTANO/DE ALARCON/en construcción/Tendrá una capacidad de 1200.000,000 m.³ (The Alarcon dam under construction will have a capacity of 1,200,000,000 cubic meters)

Poster, La Republica Crea; El Fascismo Destruye (The Republic Creates; Facism...
lithograph on wove paper.
Gift of William P. Mangold.
1997-21-28

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.

Poster, Campesino/ defiende con las armas al/ gobierno que te dio la tierra/...
lithograph on paper.
Gift of William P. Mangold.
1997-21-29

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.

Green and white background. Center: man, brandishing rifle with fist raised in foreground. Top left corner: white text in caps C.N.T. Bottom center, diagonal: black text 19 julio 1936. (July 19, 1936)

Poster, C.N.T./ 19 Julio 1936 (C.N.T July 19, 1936), 1936
lithograph on paper.
Gift of William P. Mangold.
1997-21-30

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.