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Location

United States

Year

1921

Context

Sunday-school bulletin issued by NER's National Headquarters at 151 Fifth Avenue, New York. The form line reads "Pub. S.S. No. 1 / 6-15-21," placing production at June 15, 1921 as the first in a numbered Sunday-school series. The bulletin's photograph shows girls at a rug loom inside an NER orphanage workshop, framed by an illustrated open doorway. Body copy describes the orphanage children as the "future fathers and mothers of the new Armenia" being trained as carpenters, bakers, cobblers, weavers, farmers, and cooks — the industrial-training program that anchored NER's institutional response.

Bulletins of this kind were distributed to American Protestant Sunday schools, which by the early 1920s were one of NER's most reliable per-capita giving channels. The format combined a photograph, a short narrative, and an implicit ask, designed to be read aloud or pinned to a classroom wall during a single Sunday session.

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  • Holding Institution

    Rockefeller Archive Center

  • External Link
    https://dimes.rockarch.org/collections/nj4tEFQXmr3HyaQZirmffb?category=&limit=40&query=Near%20East%20Foundation

  • Attribution

    Rockefeller Archive Center. Near East Foundation Records

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  • Document Contents

    "THROUGH A NEAR EAST WORKSHOP DOOR / Each open door discloses happy, industrious boys and girls. They will be the carpenters, bakers, cobblers, weavers, farmers, cooks and future fathers and mothers of the new Armenia. These children are finding home and health in Near East orphanages. Near East Relief, backed by your contributions, is striving to make them worthy leaders of their reconstructed world. National Headquarters, 151 Fifth Avenue, New York. Bulletin No. 1."