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title: 'La Vanguardia, Sunday edition, front page (Barcelona, 16 August 1936): "En el frente de Tardienta"'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/la-vanguardia-tardienta-1936/
description: 'Photo-only front page of a Barcelona daily one month into the war: three men in side caps at a parapet, one with binoculars and two at a machine gun…'
section: Collection
---

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[![La Vanguardia, Sunday edition, front page (Barcelona, 16 August 1936): "En el frente de Tardienta"](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/la-vanguardia-tardienta-1936.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/la-vanguardia-tardienta-1936.jpg)

# La Vanguardia, Sunday edition, front page (Barcelona, 16 August 1936): "En el frente de Tardienta"

Photo-only front page of a Barcelona daily one month into the war: three men in side caps at a parapet, one with binoculars and two at a machine gun, under the line "En el frente de Tardienta". The photo caption says the "rebeldes" tried to retake Tardienta and "las fuerzas fascistas" were repulsed by heavy rifle fire. The tell: one loaded label pair (rebels, fascist forces) and a single success report stand in for any account of the front.

## Text on the object

Original (Spanish) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
LA VANGUARDIA
BARCELONA — NOTAS GRÁFICAS — Domingo 16 de Agosto de 1936 — CUATRO PÁGINAS

EN EL FRENTE DE TARDIENTA

[photo caption] Los rebeldes intentaron recuperar la población de Tardienta; tras un nutridísimo fuego de fusil han sido rechazadas totalmente las fuerzas fascistas. — Una avanzadilla repeliendo el ataque de los rebeldes
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
THE VANGUARD
BARCELONA — PICTURE NOTES — Sunday 16 August 1936 — FOUR PAGES

ON THE TARDIENTA FRONT

[photo caption] The rebels tried to recapture the town of Tardienta; after very heavy rifle fire the fascist forces have been completely repulsed. — An advance post repelling the rebels' attack
```

Masthead, headline and photo caption read from the downsampled image; all legible. Translation is literal and not checked by a fluent reader.

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