They shall not perish ... American Committee for relief in the Near East / Douglas Volk. – Vintage Wall Art
(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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This rare vintage poster captures They shall not perish ... American Committee for relief in the Near East / Douglas Volk. in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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They shall not perish ... American Committee for relief in the Near East / Douglas Volk.
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They shall not perish" is the plea printed across this 1918 color lithograph, which asks Americans to give to relief work in the Near East rather than to the Allied war effort at home. It was issued for the American Committee for Relief in the Near East, the body that became Near East Relief, formed in 1915 to aid Armenians, Assyrians, Greeks and others facing deportation, famine and disease in the Ottoman lands during and after the war. Douglas Volk, an American painter, designed the image, and it belongs to the wider wartime campaign to raise money through posters. Worth noticing is how the design borrows the language of rescue to make a distant humanitarian crisis feel immediate to donors in the United States.
| Created / published | 1918 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph color. |
| Notes | Promotional goal: U.S. G2. 1918. · Rehse Archiv fuumlr Zeitgeschichte und Publizistik former owner. DLC |
| Subjects | Near East Relief (Organization)--1910-1920. World War 1914-1918--Economic & industrial aspects--United States. Assistance--Middle East--1910-1920. War bonds & funds--United States--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Posters: Artist Posters |
| Original scan | 1,031 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 261_They_shall_not_perish_1918 |
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