Give or we perish American Committee for Relief in the Near East--Armenia-Greece-Syria-Persia--Campaign for $30000000 / W.T. Benda Alco-Gravure Inc. N.Y. – 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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Few images capture their era like this vintage poster of Give or we perish American Committee for Relief in the Near East--Armenia-Greece-Syria-Persia--Campaign for $30000000 / W.T. Benda Alco-Gravure Inc. N.Y.. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Give or we perish American Committee for Relief in the Near East--Armenia-Greece-Syria-Persia--Campaign for $30000000 / W.T. Benda Alco-Gravure Inc. N.Y.
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Its title, *Give or we perish*, presents the $30,000,000 campaign of the American Committee for Relief in the Near East as a matter of survival. The appeal was aimed at famine and displacement in Armenia, Greece, Syria and Persia, regions hit hard during the Ottoman Empire's final years of war and collapse. The Committee on Public Information's Division of Pictorial Publicity issued the poster in 1917, and its use for humanitarian fundraising, alongside recruitment and bond drives, shows how the government's wartime publicity machinery was put to work for relief as well.
| Created / published | 1917 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph ; 85 x 56 cm. |
| Notes | Issued by U.S. Committee on Public Information Division of Pictorial Publicity. Monogram in block DPP. · Rehse Archiv fuumlr Zeitgeschichte und Publizistik former owner. DLC |
| Subjects | World War 1914-1918--Economic & industrial aspects--United States. World War 1914-1918--Women. War relief--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Posters: Artist Posters |
| Original scan | 3,758 × 4,686 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 1183_Give_or_we_perish_Ameri_1917 |
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