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The Posters That Went to War · Over There
Why Not Meet Us in Hero Land? Belgian Children's Milk Fund
William Anderson Sherwood (1875-1951) · Belgian Children's Milk Fund, Hero Land, Grand Central Palace, 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 William Anderson Sherwood drew in 1917 for the Belgian Children's Milk Fund, announcing its opening at Hero Land in the Grand Central Palace on 24 November.
Why it matters
Hero Land was a fundraising event at the Grand Central Palace from 24 November to 12 December 1917, and the milk fund for Belgium's children opened with it.
What to notice
A mother and child in Belgian dress, the child drinking from a bowl of milk, beside a dog cart carrying two jugs packed in straw, with the Belgian flag behind them.
Milk for Belgium, drawn by a dog cart.
Provenance
- School
- The Great War Poster (United States and the world)
- Designer
- William Anderson Sherwood (1875-1951)
- Campaign
- Relief and Welfare
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- Belgian Children's Milk Fund, Hero Land, Grand Central Palace, New York, 1917
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · LCCN 00651561 · POS - WWI - US, no. 1 (C 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-Layout, PD-US-expired-text, PD-old-70-1923).
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