Aug 05, 2015 - Sale 2389

Sale 2389 - Lot 116

Price Realized: $ 1,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
CHARLES CHAMBERS (1883-1941) [FOOD WILL WIN THE WAR.] 1918.
30x20 inches, 76 1/4x50 3/4 cm. Rusling Wood Litho., New York.
Condition B+: water staining in left margin; creases in margins and image. Paper.
Published by the U.S. Food Administration, this poster reminds immigrants of the beauty, promise and joy of arriving in New York Harbor in an appeal for their help saving food to feed the Allies. To reach as broad an immigrant base as possible, this poster appeared in several different languages including English, Italian and Hungarian. This is the Yiddish version. Magnes p. 49, Rawls p. 113, Theofiles p. 94 (var), Borkan p. 60, Gallo p. 92.