URL: https://digitalcollections.hoover.org/objects/36626
Collection Structure Poster collection >  You saved them in 1917. Will you let them starve now? ... "The shadow of shame." Do not let it darken your door. Starving women and children are pleading to you for food. Will they plead in vain? In Lithuania women are concealing deaths of their children in order to retain bread cards. ... Act at once. Starving people cannot wait ... [Verso: The shadow of shame]
Item Title You saved them in 1917. Will you let them starve now? ... "The shadow of shame." Do not let it darken your door. Starving women and children are pleading to you for food. Will they plead in vain? In Lithuania women are concealing deaths of their children in order to retain bread cards. ... Act at once. Starving people cannot wait ... [Verso: The shadow of shame]
Collection Title Poster collection
Artist Cozzy
Issuing Body American Jewish Relief Committee for Sufferers from the War
Date Created 1918?
Description Drawing of an allegorical figure and the refugee she is protecting spurning a male figure labelled "war relief slacker." Double-sided.
Subject(s) Jews Children Charities Food question War work Civilian relief Lithuania World War, 1914-1918 Europe
Language(s) English
Country of Origin United States
Country of Origin United States
Place Published New York, United States
Dimensions Overall: 19 x 12 in. (48.3 x 30.5 cm)
Format Poster
Medium political posters
Color color
Color color
Hoover ID Poster US 3619
Record Number XX343.27002
Collection Guide https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt829015km
Rights No known restrictions.