La Vanguardia, picture page (Barcelona, 13 December 1937): "La Ciudad Universitaria"
Photo page with two wide pictures of Madrid's University City under the headline "La Ciudad Universitaria": the Clinical Hospital, with a caption saying the two small round buildings were the operating theatres in which "los fascistas" had machine-gun nests "que nuestra artillería destruyó", and the Agronomy school and the Casa de Velazquez seen from Puerta de Hierro. The tell: the one loaded label (fascists) carries the explanation for the damage; the captions give no dates.
- Date
- December 13, 1937
- Period
- Interwar
- Made by
- La Vanguardia (Barcelona daily, Republican zone); owner and editor not named on the page or the Commons record
- Country
- Spain
- Medium
- Newspaper pages
- Issuer type
- Media
- Regime
- Second Spanish Republic
- Leader
- Juan Negrin
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Warn or inform
- Theme
- War and the military
- Event
- Spanish Civil War
- Techniques
- Name-calling
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons (scan uploaded under Category:Scanned by LBM1948) of La Vanguardia (Barcelona), retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Commons {{PD-anon-80}} (unknown author); URAA status not cleared; hosted on owner decision October 2, 2026
Wikimedia Commons, File:December 13, 1937 LA VANGUARDIA.jpg: La Vanguardia (Barcelona), December 13, 1937; source given as La Vanguardia (diario); author unknown/anonymous.
Text on the object
LA CIUDAD UNIVERSITARIA [upper caption] UNA FOTOGRAFÍA DEL CLÍNICO. EN ELLA PUEDEN VERSE DOS PEQUEÑOS EDIFICIOS CIRCULARES, QUE SON LOS QUIRÓFANOS, Y EN LOS CUALES TENÍAN LOS FASCISTAS SUS NIDOS DE AMETRALLADORAS, QUE NUESTRA ARTILLERÍA DESTRUYÓ. [lower caption] EL EDIFICIO DE LA ESCUELA DE INGENIEROS AGRÓNOMOS, DE LA CIUDAD UNIVERSITARIA. - A LA DERECHA: LA CASA DE VELÁZQUEZ, DESDE LA PARTE DE PUERTA DE HIERRO (FOTOS REPORTAJE)
THE UNIVERSITY CITY [upper caption] A PHOTOGRAPH OF THE CLINICAL HOSPITAL. IN IT ONE CAN SEE TWO SMALL CIRCULAR BUILDINGS, WHICH ARE THE OPERATING THEATRES, AND IN WHICH THE FASCISTS HAD THEIR MACHINE-GUN NESTS, WHICH OUR ARTILLERY DESTROYED. [lower caption] THE BUILDING OF THE AGRONOMY ENGINEERS' SCHOOL, OF THE UNIVERSITY CITY. - ON THE RIGHT: THE CASA DE VELÁZQUEZ, FROM THE PUERTA DE HIERRO SIDE (PHOTO REPORT)
Headline and both captions read from the downsampled image; the word 'ametralladoras' is split across a line break in the original. Translation is literal and not checked by a fluent reader.
