Opening The Atlas
The next picture is on its way.
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
Save the Survivors: 3,950,000 Starving People
American Committee for Relief in the Near East, 1918
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 poster by an unidentified artist for the American Committee for Relief in the Near East, 1918, from the copy the Missouri Historical Society holds; the Library of Congress has the same design (LCCN 2002719416).
Why it matters
The committee campaigned for $30,000,000 in war relief, and this sheet makes the case with a map and the numbers of the people in need.
What to notice
A map of the Middle East, with the campaign's $30,000,000 goal and its statistics of the people needing relief.
A map drawn in numbers of the hungry.
Provenance
- School
- The Great War Poster (United States and the world)
- Campaign
- Relief and Welfare
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- American Committee for Relief in the Near East, 1918
- Source
- Missouri Historical Society, via DPLA and Wikimedia Commons
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: No restrictions. LicenseShortName is "No restrictions" (DPLA cooperation upload) rather than a PD template; cleared here on publication in the United States before 1931. The LoC record of the design (LCCN 2002719416) reads 1918 and carries the rights advisory.
More from the Atlas
Painted Whiskers, our sister studio, will paint your pet in this school’s hand, after Help! The Woman's Land Army of America, New Jersey Division. See Yours Painted ↗