The Child at Your Door WWI Poster

"The Child at Your Door" 400,000 Orphans Starving No State Aid Available Campaign for $30,000,000. American Committee [for] Relief in The Near East, Armenia. Greece. Syria. Persia. 1 Madison Ave, New York - Cleveland H. Dodge Treas. [American Committee for Relief in the Near East]. [NY]: American Lithographic Co. [1917]  20 3/8 x 13 5/8 inches. Small closed tear at top edge, bottom right corner tear [no loss]. Offset lithograph poster. "“The Child At Your Door ” was one of many posters issued during World War I to encourage support of the war. This poster was commissioned in 1917 from an unknown artist by the Near East Relief (NER), a charity organization formed to support the victims of the Armenian genocide. In order to help stop the total annihilation of the Armenian population, America sent humanitarians over to the Middle East and set up an emergency fund. The American Committee for Armenian and Syrian Relief was formed in 1915 and was headed by James L. Barton and Cleveland H. Do