" LEST WE PERISH " 1917 AMERICAN CAMPAIGN POSTER - RELIEF FOR ARMENIANS + LETTER

Description

We are offering a circa 1917 Poster "Lest We Perish.
Campaign for ,000,000.  American Committee for Relief In the Near East - Armenia - Greece - Syria - Persia".  Poster has been professionally linen-backed.  Poster measures 20 1/4" x 28".
With linen backing it measures 22" x 29 3/4".
Artwork is by E.F. Bettsbains.  Printed by Conwell Graphics Companies, New York.
CONDITION: Poster is in Excellent Condition with a small corner chip in lower left corner.  Shows very nicely with the linen backing.  (
The Armenian genocide was the systematic killing and deportation of Christian Armenians by the Turks of the Ottoman Empire that was set in motion in 1915 during World War I and lasted into the early 1920s.  Records show over one and a half million Armenians were extinguished from the Ottoman Empire.)
Also, with the poster is a letter regarding the plight of the Armenian people in Armenia and other countries of central Europe.
The letter, which is dated March 2, 1920, is from the Boston Chamber of Commerce, signed by the President, John R. Maconelly and Secretary James A. McKibben, to the Massachusetts Board of Trade asking for support of a resolution urging Congress to authorize the purchase by the United States Grain Corp. of food and other necessities of life and to distribute them to the governments of these countries on credit for the thousands of Armenians who were at the brink of starvation.
"Hunger will sow the seeds of economic unrest, with resultant world disaster, quicker than anything else".  CONDITION:  Letter is in Excellent Condition; has pencil notations and calculations on the back seemingly to pertain to expenses with regards to property.