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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
Lest They Perish: American Committee for Relief in the Near East
W. B. King · American Committee for Relief in the Near East, One Madison Avenue, New York, 1917
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 W. B. King drew for the American Committee for Relief in the Near East between 1917 and 1919, 47 by 32 cm on the sheet.
Why it matters
The committee's campaign for $30,000,000 named Armenia, Greece, Syria and Persia, with Cleveland H. Dodge as treasurer at One Madison Avenue, New York. The Library showed the sheet in Echoes of the Great War from November 2017 to June 2018.
What to notice
A woman carrying a baby on her back among destroyed buildings.
A child carried out of a ruined city.
Provenance
- School
- The Great War Poster (United States and the world)
- Designer
- W. B. King
- Campaign
- Relief and Welfare
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- American Committee for Relief in the Near East, One Madison Avenue, New York, 1917
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · LCCN 2002711981 · POS - US .K548, no. 2 (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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