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War Relief Fund Postcard 1917 [186556]

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War Relief Fund Postcard 1917 [186556]
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Postcard representing The Stage Women's War Relief Fund. Stage Women's War Relief was founded in 1917 to organize charitable giving in support of the war effort. Its founders, led by playwright & director Rachel Crothers, included the actress & playwright Louise Closser Hale & actresses Dorothy Donnelly, Josephine Hull, Minnie Dupree, Elizabeth Tyree & Louise Drew. The organization established workrooms for sewing uniforms & other garments (with total output totaling 1,863,645 articles), set up clothing & food collection centers, sold Liberty Bonds, & opened a canteen on Broadway for servicemen It also presented benefit performances to raise money, including some held in a temporary "Liberty Theater" built outside the New York Public Library. In total, the group raised nearly $7,000,000 for the war effort.
Card is colorful & has been used, although no postmark is evident. [New York New York