Motherless, fatherless, starving: How much to save these little lives? – Historic Reproduction
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Few images capture their era like this historic image of Motherless, fatherless, starving: How much to save these little lives?. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
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Motherless, fatherless, starving: How much to save these little lives?
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The title reads as a direct plea for money, asking what it would cost to keep these children alive, and that framing sets it apart from the rest of the war images on this board. Appeals of this kind were common in 1917, when wartime shortages, displacement and famine hit civilians hard, especially children left without parents. Aid organizations in the United States and Europe used such pictures and blunt headlines to raise funds for relief work in areas torn apart by the fighting. The image is worth reading as an appeal as much as a record of suffering, because its purpose was to move viewers to give.
| Created / published | 1917 |
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| Original scan | 3,645 × 4,535 px · prints to 12 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 938_Motherless_fatherless_s_1917 |
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