Help Us Keep Them Alive Till the Next Harvest

[Zagat, Samuel (artist)]

Published by American Committee for the Relief of Russian Children, [New York], 1921

About this Item

A grim poster issued by the American Committee for the Relief of Russian Children, one of the first U.S. organizations to raise support for starving children during Russia's famine of 1921-22. Organized by radicals and progressives in NYC, members included Crystal Eastman, John Haynes Holmes, Dr. Henry Neuman, Walter Lippman, Clare Sheridan, and Paxton Hibben. The poster's illustration appears to have come from the Jewish-Lithuanian artist Samuel Zagat, long-time cartoonist for the Jewish Daily Forward, as well as The Masses, the Jewish Morning Journal, and the Hat Worker. Offset lithograph printed in black on fragile white stock (11" x 15 ¾"), which at some point was mounted to more durable brown paper. Union bug to the bottom margin. Creasing, edge tears, and one corner slightly chipped. Seller Inventory # 9560

Bibliographic Details

Title: Help Us Keep Them Alive Till the Next Harvest

Publisher: American Committee for the Relief of Russian Children, [New York]

Publication Date: 1921

Binding: Soft cover