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Prepared from the source scan: surroundings removed and the sheet levelled where required. The source record remains available below.
The Posters That Went to War · Over There
The Child at Your Door: 400,000 Orphans Starving, No State Aid Available
Herman Pfeifer (1879-1931) · American Committee for Relief in the Near East, Baltimore Campaign, 9-17 February 1919, 1919
Format
Archival pigment giclée on museum-grade matte art paper, color-managed to the source scan — the flat inks and stone grain intact. The 40×60 is the room-changer.
Size
$39.00
What it is
A colour lithograph Herman Pfeifer drew for the Baltimore campaign of the American Committee for Relief in the Near East, 9 to 17 February 1919, 50 by 35 cm.
Why it matters
The committee campaigned for $30,000,000 for Armenia, Greece, Syria and Persia, where it counted 400,000 orphans starving with no state aid. The sheet is signed only with a monogram, and the Library of Congress takes Pfeifer's name from The Poster of January 1919.
What to notice
A child wearing a scarf on her head, and the monogram the Library could not read for certain, D. or H. P.
A stranger's child, standing at the door.
Provenance
- School
- The Great War Poster (United States and the world)
- Designer
- Herman Pfeifer (1879-1931)
- Campaign
- Relief and Welfare
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- American Committee for Relief in the Near East, Baltimore Campaign, 9-17 February 1919, 1919
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · LCCN 2002707410 · POS - US .A01, no. 36 (B size) [P&P]
Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. 95-year rule (published 1930 or earlier). Gated by the poster’s own publication year. Cleared by registry on 2026-11-02. Commons licence re-read 2026-11-02 on the Commons mirror of the same LoC scan: Public domain (PD-1923, PD-Layout, PD-US-expired).
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