The child at your door 400000 orphans starving no state aid available--Campaign for $30000000. – Historic Reproduction
(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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A wartime appeal for Near East relief, this poster asks Americans to help with a campaign for $30,000,000 and a reported 400,000 orphans in need, with the line "no state aid available" making the case that private giving was the only help. It was issued by the American Committee for Relief in the Near East, the group that later became Near East Relief, and it reflects the famine and displacement in Armenia, Syria, and neighboring regions during the First World War. The Committee on Public Information's Division of Pictorial Publicity, the federal office that produced many 1917 and 1918 posters, also worked on it. The unidentified monogram in the corner is a detail worth a closer look.
| Created / published | 1917 |
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| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph color ; 52 x 35 cm. |
| Notes | American Committee Relief in the Near East. Armenia-Greece-Syria-Persia. 1 Madison Ave. New York Cleveland H. Dodge Treas. Signed with unidentified monogram (D. or H. P. ?). Committee on Public Information Division of Pictorial Publicity. · Canada Food Board funder/sponsor. |
| Subjects | Near East Relief (Organization) World War 1914-1918--Economic & industrial aspects--United States. World War 1914-1918--Children. Orphans--1910-1920. War relief--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Posters: Artist Posters |
| Original scan | 3,665 × 4,535 px · prints to 12 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 1289_The_child_at_your_door_1917 |
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