What are you doing to prevent this? – Vintage Wall Art
![What are you doing to prevent this?, Madrid : Junta Delegada de Defensa de Madrid, Ministerio de Propaganda, [between 1936 and 1939] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/e2/e242ff3b7379-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This vintage poster of What are you doing to prevent this? brings a moment of history to your wall. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Its title asks a pointed question, "What are you doing to prevent this?", and the poster pairs it with the subject of mothers and children under air attack. It was issued in Madrid by the Junta Delegada de Defensa de Madrid, the city's defense committee, under the Ministry of Propaganda of the Republican government during the Spanish Civil War. Aerial bombardment of Madrid intensified after the war began in 1936, and the poster used images of civilian women and children to press viewers toward civil defense work and support for the war effort.
| Created / published | Madrid : Junta Delegada de Defensa de Madrid, Ministerio de Propaganda, [between 1936 and 1939] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : offset lithograph, color ; 81 x 56 cm. |
| Genre | War posters Spanish 1930-1940.Offset lithographs Color 1930-1940. |
| Notes | Carteles de la Republica, no. 241; Palette and the flame, p. 13; Plakat Republikanskiej Hiszpani, no. 132. Another issue: POS - SP. CIV. WAR - .S64, no. 1a (B size) (same image; text in English ; 40 x 27 cm.); POS - SP. CIV. WAR - .S64, no. 1b (C size) (same image; text in Spanish ; 81 x 56 cm.); POS - SP. CIV. WAR - .S64, no. 1c (C size) (same image; text in French ; 81 x 56 cm.); POS - SP. CIV. WAR - .S64, no. 1d (B size) (same image; text in French ; 40 x 27 cm.). Promotional goal: Sp. J4. 1936//Sp. J46. 1936. Forms part of: Spanish Civil War posters at the Library of Congress. |
| Subjects | Mothers & children--Spain--1930-1940. Spain--History--Civil War, 1936-1939--Air operations. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,776 × 4,711 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-220942 |
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