c.1918 Turn Your Dollars To Doughnuts Hazel Frazee Salvation Army WWI

Date: c.1918
Artist: Frazee, Hazel          
Size (in): 28” x 21” 
Size (cm): 71 x 53.5
Condition: B
Linen backed: No 

This is a vintage original and rare WWI era poster was created by the Chicago artist Hazel Frazee (1889-1972) for the Salvation Army.   Frazee renders an image of a young doughboy clutching an armload of doughnuts with text that reads: 

Turn Your Dollars To Doughnuts Thru The Salvation Army  

The Salvation Army was one of the major non-governmental organizations that supported the war effort by providing a wide variety of morale and welfare programs to American forces serving at home and aboard as well as the war workers that labored to provide the necessary war materiel.  Hazel Frazee was born in Chicago and graduated from the Art Institute of Chicago.  Frazee worked primarily with watercolors and most remembered as an illustrator of children’s books and for the covers she created for Child Life magazine.   

This original antique WWI era poster is folded as issued and shows moderate handling wear and what looks like staple holes on the right and left edges which don’t really encroach into the image area.   The poster displays very nicely or could look almost “like new” with basic linen backing.  Overall condition is very good.