ORIGINAL VINTAGE POSTER CARDINAL MERCIER SEND FOOD TO FRANCE ITALY BY ILLION WWI

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THIS AUCTION IS FOR A REAL VINTAGE  POSTER TITLED "
CARDINAL MERCIER HAS APPEALED TO THE FOOD ADMINISTRATION FOR MORE FOOD FOR STARVING MILLIONS. EAT LESS WHEAT-MEAT-FATS AND SUGAR. SHIP MORE TO THE WAR STRICKEN PEOPLE OF FRANCE, BELGIUM, ITALY, BY GEORGE ILLION"
THE BOARD IS APPROXIMATELY 29 INCHES BY 22 INCHES IN SIZE.
Pasted to a board, foxing, soiling and stains at numerous spots, a hole at the center of the upper edge,  foxing also on the reverse side of the board, otherwise A clean item. Original poster from c.1917
From internet site of Library of Congress:
Title: Cardinal Mercier has appealed to the Food Administration for more food for starving millions / Illion [sic]; Latham Litho. & Ptg. Co. Brooklyn, N.Y.
Creator(s): Illian, George, 1894-1932, artist
Date Created/Published: [1917]
Medium: 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 71 x 52 cm.
Summary: Poster showing a portrait of Cardinal Mercier.
Also from internet:
Désiré-Joseph Mercier, (born Nov. 21, 1851, Braine-l’Alleud, Belg.—died Jan. 23, 1926, Brussels), Belgian educator, cardinal, and a leader in the 19th-century revival of the philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas.
Mercier was ordained in 1874 and taught philosophy at the seminary of Malines, Belg. (1877–82). In 1880 Pope Leo XIII requested that a program in Thomistic philosophy be offered at the Catholic University of Leuven (Louvain), Belg., for which Mercier was appointed professor in 1882. His lectures there on Thomism in relation to modern philosophy and science attracted an international body of students. With the support of Leo, Mercier founded (1894) the Superior Institute of Philosophy at Leuven and served as its first president. The institute became a major centre of Thomism, publishing the Revue Néoscolastique (now Revue Philosophique de Louvain) and evaluating contemporary philosophies. Pope St. Pius X made Mercier archbishop (1906) of Malines and cardinal (1907). During World War I his stand against the Germans for their burning of the Leuven Library and for deporting workmen made him an international spokesman for the Belgians. Invited to visit the United States by President Woodrow Wilson, Mercier made a tour of that country and Canada (1919) that brought him honours and financial support to rebuild the Leuven Library.
In 1951 the Cardinal Mercier Chair was endowed at Leuven to support lectures by visiting philosophers. Mercier’s works include Manual of Modern Scholastic Philosophy, 2 vol. (with professors of Leuven; trans. by T.L. and S.A. Parker, 1917–18), and Origins of Contemporary Psychology (trans. by W.H. Mitchell, 1918).
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