Mar 09, 2023 - Sale 2629

Sale 2629 - Lot 369

Price Realized: $ 1,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800

CHARLES EDWARD CHAMBERS (1883-1941?)

[FOOD WILL WIN THE WAR.] 1917.


30x20 inches, 76x50 3/4 cm. Rusling Wood Litho., New York.
Condition A-: minor restoration at edges and along unobtrusive vertical and horizontal folds; small foxing spot in lower left corner.

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.