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/e3/e398ca411275-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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What are you doing to prevent this? comes to life in this vintage poster, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Its title is a question put directly to the viewer: "What are you doing to prevent this?" The poster was issued in Madrid during the Spanish Civil War under the Junta Delegada de Defensa de Madrid, the civilian body that coordinated the city's defense after Nationalist forces reached its outskirts in late 1936. The subjects listed for it are mothers and children and air operations, reflecting the aerial bombing that struck Madrid's streets and residential districts during the siege. Versions were printed with text in English, Spanish and French, which suggests it was meant to reach foreign audiences as well as Spaniards.
| Created / published | Madrid : Junta Delegada de Defensa de Madrid, Ministerio de Propaganda, [between 1936 and 1939] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : offset lithograph, color ; 40 x 27 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. 1 (C size (B size)) (same image; text in English; 81 x 56); 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 | 3,786 × 4,716 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-220943 |
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