Description
Artist Unknown Where Is My Boy Tonight? Knights of Columbus War Camp Activities Fund Coney Island Week 1918. A poster for Coney Island Week, where a benefit for the Knights of Columbus cost one dollar (expensive at the time) proceeds going to the Knights. Lures included the Steeplechase, Luna Park and other attractions. Artist portrays a doughboy in full kit striding along with a confidant gate; the Knights of Columbus emblem overhead. A mother embracing her two sons, a soldier and a sailor materializes in the blue sky. A Knights of Columbus meeting hall in a converted barracks ‘over there’ locates the soldier. The Knights of Columbus are a Catholic fraternal men’s organization created in the 1880s. It came into being because Catholics were excluded from existing men’s organizations at the time. Any poster that advertises a event in a specific place (Coney Island!) for a week is incredibly rare. Very few were printed. 44×32 not perfect but so rare; conservation backed.
