Maps, Posters and other Pictorial Documents

Featured below is a selection of pictorial documents including copies of fund-raising posters for supporting relief efforts.

"Where The Victims Are; Save The Survivors; 3,950,000 Starving People; Campaign for $30,000,000" poster (c. 1918) produced by the the American Committee for Relief in the Near East, 1 Madison Avenue, New York City, and issued in the United States to raise funds for genocide survivors—Greeks, Armenians and others—in the Ottoman Empire.

"2 ½ Million Starving; Armenians Syrians Greeks" poster (c. 1917) produced by the American Committee for Armenian and Syrian Relief, 1 Madison Avenue, New York City, and issued in the United States to raise funds for Turkey's Armenian, Assyrian and Greek populations by means of liberty bonds.

A Near East Relief map illustrating the location of its orphanages, feeding stations, refugee camps and hospitals in Turkey. The map also features arrows denoting the direction of some of the deportation routes.

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