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"Lest we perish": American Near East relief poster, late 1910s

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"Lest we perish": American Near East relief poster, late 1910s

Place
New York
Date
1910s
RefugeesWorld WarIllustration

Colour poster by Ethel Franklin Betts showing a barefoot girl in a headscarf reaching out to the viewer, for the American Committee for Relief in the Near East's $30,000,000 campaign for "Armenia - Greece - Syria - Persia". The committee's aid in Persia went largely to Assyrian and Armenian refugees of the Urmia region.

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Source

Missouri Historical Society, via DPLA and Wikimedia Commons

Ethel Franklin Betts; Conwell Graphic Companies · No known copyright restrictions.

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