# Save Serbia Our Ally (1916), Steinlen for the Serbian Relief Committee Save Serbia Our Ally is a crayon lithograph by Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen for the Serbian Relief Committee of America in New York, dated 1916 in the archive and signed "steinlen 1915." Two soldiers lead a column of refugee women and old men, and the poster asks for contributions. Library of Congress. - Home - Archive - Save Serbia Our Ally (1916), Steinlen for the Serbian Relief Committee Save Serbia our ally: Serbian Relief Committee of America poster Save Serbia Our Ally (1916), Steinlen for the Serbian Relief Committee Steinlen's lithograph for the Serbian Relief Committee of America: refugees behind a French and a Serbian soldier, over "Save Serbia our ally." ## Techniques named on the archive record Transfer Date1916Made bySerbian Relief Committee of America (New York); artist Théophile-Alexandre SteinlenMediumPosterCountryUnited StatesRegimeWilson AdministrationSourceIdentified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they areSourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division , retrieved September 29, 2026SourcePublic 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. Object, image, and catalog record from the FRAME archive. Text on this page is CC BY 4.0. Image rights are as the archive records. Full record at propagandaarchive.org Save Serbia Our Ally is a crayon lithograph by Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen for the Serbian Relief Committee of America in New York, dated 1916 in the archive and signed "steinlen 1915." Two soldiers lead a column of refugee women and old men, and the poster asks for contributions. Library of Congress. ## The image Steinlen drew this in crayon. In the archive's description, a column of Serbian refugees, women and old men, walks behind two soldiers. One wears a French kepi and rests a comradely hand on the shoulder of the other, a bearded Serbian soldier. The words sit below them, followed by an address for donations. SAVE SERBIA OUR ALLY SEND CONTRIBUTIONS TO SERBIAN RELIEF COMMITTEE OF AMERICA, 70 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK steinlen 1915 Transcription in the FRAME record, read from the image. Full record at propagandaarchive.org. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, POS - Fr .S74, no. 10. ## Dates The archive dates the poster to 1916. The artist's signature reads "steinlen 1915," and the Library of Congress rights line gives 1915–1916. This page keeps the archive's year in the title and notes the signed date here. ## Whose ally? The archive tags the poster with transfer. The Allied uniform, the hand on the shoulder, and the word "ally" carry loyalty to the Allies over to an appeal for a small country's civilians. In the United States in these years, that word asked for a little more than it said. The country was not at war when the archive dates the sheet, and "our ally" in a New York poster borrows a wartime bond that Americans had not yet formally made. That is the propaganda in it, and it is mild. What the poster asks for is money, sent by choice to a named committee at a printed address on Fifth Avenue. No law requires the gift and no one is shamed for withholding it. ## Related Two 1918 sheets on this site make other uses of the same sympathies. The Fourth Liberty Loan poster Remember Belgium shows a spiked-helmet soldier pulling a girl past a burning town. The Red Cross poster The Greatest Mother in the World is another relief appeal, built around a giant nurse holding a wounded soldier. The Wilson administration essay covers the road from 1915 to the war message of April 1917. ## Sources - FRAME object record, Save Serbia our ally: Serbian Relief Committee of America poster, 1916. Serbian Relief Committee of America (New York); artist Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen. - Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, POS - Fr .S74, no. 10, catalog record, retrieved by the archive 29 September 2026. Rights as recorded: public domain (published 1915–1916; no known restrictions on publication). Canonical: https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/save-serbia-our-ally-steinlen-1916/