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title: '"The Child at Your Door": 400,000 Orphans Starving, Campaign for $30,000,000'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/the-child-at-your-door-near-east-relief-1919/
description: A charcoal-style drawing of a girl in a headscarf, hands clasped, looks directly at the viewer under the caption 'The Child at Your Door.' The text states
section: Collection
---

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[!["The Child at Your Door": 400,000 Orphans Starving, Campaign for $30,000,000, 1919 US poster: A charcoal-style drawing](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/the-child-at-your-door-near-east-relief-1919.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/the-child-at-your-door-near-east-relief-1919.jpg)

# "The Child at Your Door": 400,000 Orphans Starving, Campaign for $30,000,000

A charcoal-style drawing of a girl in a headscarf, hands clasped, looks directly at the viewer under the caption 'The Child at Your Door.' The text states '400,000 orphans starving,' 'no state aid available,' and a campaign target of $30,000,000, naming Armenia, Greece, Syria and Persia. The tell is the direct gaze paired with a single large casualty figure and a fundraising target, a pity appeal that rests on one unsourced number.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Outrage bait](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/outrage-bait/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
"The Child at Your Door"

400,000 ORPHANS STARVING
NO STATE AID AVAILABLE
CAMPAIGN for $30,000,000
AMERICAN COMMITTEE
RELIEF IN THE NEAR EAST
ARMENIA · GREECE · SYRIA · PERSIA
1 MADISON AVE. NEW YORK — CLEVELAND H. DODGE Treas.

[monogram at right of caption: PD ligature; tiny imprint at foot: illegible]
```

Monogram and the tiny imprint at the foot are not legible.

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