Also on view are a selection of books, newspapers, and journals which contextualize the posters and illustrate how integral the posters were to the overall propaganda campaign during the war. The posters and supplementary materials are on loan from the Southworth Collection at the University of California, San Diego. The collection was initiated by Herbert Rutledge Southworth, an American journalist closely associated with the Republican government in Spain, who began collecting systematically during the war. Much of the material in the Southworth Collection is not available elsewhere in the U.S. and has therefore become a prime resource for students and scholars of the Spanish Civil War. The exhibition's curator will present a free gallery talk on February 19 at 6 p.m.
Photographs are available for publication.