--- title: 'Save Serbia our ally: Serbian Relief Committee of America poster' url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/save-serbia-our-ally-steinlen-1916/ description: A crayon lithograph shows a column of Serbian refugee women and old men behind two soldiers, one in a French kepi with a comradely hand on the shoulder… section: Collection --- [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) [![Save Serbia our ally: Serbian Relief Committee of America poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/save-serbia-our-ally-steinlen-1916.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/save-serbia-our-ally-steinlen-1916.jpg) # Save Serbia our ally: Serbian Relief Committee of America poster A crayon lithograph shows a column of Serbian refugee women and old men behind two soldiers, one in a French kepi with a comradely hand on the shoulder of a bearded Serbian soldier, above the words 'Save Serbia our ally'. The Allied uniform, the shared gesture and the word 'ally' carry existing Allied loyalty over to a fundraising appeal for a small country's civilians. - **Date:** 1916 - **Period:** [First World War](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#era=wwi) - **Made by:** Serbian Relief Committee of America (New York); artist Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen - **Region:** [North America](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#region=north-america) - **Country:** [United States](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#country=united-states) - **Medium:** [Poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#medium=poster) - **Issuer type:** [NGO](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#actor=ngo) - **Regime:** [Wilson Administration](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#regime=wilson-administration) - **Leader:** [Woodrow Wilson](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#leader=woodrow-wilson) - **Audience:** [Domestic public](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#audience=domestic-public) - **Purpose:** [Fundraise](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#purpose=fundraise) - **Themes:** [War and the military](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=war-military), [Migration](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=migration) - **Event:** [World War I](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#event=world-war-i) - **Techniques:** [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) - **Source:** Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are - **Source:** [Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division](https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/99613722/), retrieved September 29, 2026 - **Rights:** Public domain (published 1915-1916; LOC: no known restrictions on publication) Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen, for the Serbian Relief Committee of America, 1915-1916. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, POS - Fr .S74, no. 10. ## Text on the object Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` SAVE SERBIA OUR ALLY SEND CONTRIBUTIONS TO SERBIAN RELIEF COMMITTEE OF AMERICA, 70 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK steinlen 1915 ``` [← Военный 5½% заём (Russian War Loan postcard, 1916)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/russian-war-loan-postcard-1916/) [Sind wir die Barbaren? (Are We the Barbarians?) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sind-wir-die-barbaren-1916/) ## Using the same techniques - [Bronze sestertius of Gaius (Caligula), reverse S P Q R P P OB CIVES SERVATOS in an oak wreath](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sestertius-caligula-ob-cives-servatos-0037/) (0037 · Testimonial, Transfer) - [Gold coin of Kanishka: King of Kings legend, king at the altar, deity Oesho](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gold-dinar-kanishka-king-of-kings-0130/) (0130 · Transfer) - [Gold solidus of Justinian I, reverse VICTORIA AVGGG with Victory holding a Christogram staff](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/solidus-justinian-i-victoria-avggg-0538/) (0538 · Transfer, Glittering generalities) - [Bayeux Tapestry, scene 23: UBI HAROLD SACRAMENTVM FECIT VVILLELMO DVCI](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/bayeux-tapestry-harold-oath-to-william-1070/) (1070 · Transfer, Card stacking) - [Frontispiece to Eikon Basilike, The Pourtraicture of His Sacred Majestie in his Solitudes and Sufferings (Hollar, 1649)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/eikon-basilike-frontispiece-hollar-1649/) (1649 · Transfer, Glittering generalities) - [Consult of the doctors on the grave illness of the Grand Sultan (Consult vande medicijnen inde swaere siekte vanden grooten Sultaen)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/consult-of-the-doctors-sick-sultan-antwerp-1683/) (1683 · Transfer, Bandwagon) - [The Highlanders Medley, or The Duke Triumphant (A Loyal Song)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/highlanders-medley-duke-triumphant-1746/) (1746 · Name-calling, Transfer) - [Marche du Dom Quichotte moderne pour la deffence du Moulin des Abus (March of the Modern Don Quixote in Defence of the Mill of Abuses)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dom-quichotte-moulin-des-abus-1791/) (1791 · Name-calling, Transfer)