“To All Consumers and Retail Butchers of Brownsville & East New York… Protest Against the High Cost of Meat by Coming to our Demonstration.”
AUCTION 72 |
Thursday, March 16th,
2017 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Holy Land Maps & Fine Art
Lot 43
(AMERICAN JUDAICA).
“To All Consumers and Retail Butchers of Brownsville & East New York… Protest Against the High Cost of Meat by Coming to our Demonstration.”
Brooklyn, New York: (1935)
Est: $400 - $600
The City Action Committee Against the High Cost of Living, a group of New York City female homemakers led by Clara Lemlich Shavelson (1886-1982), organized a boycott demanding a reduction in the price of kosher meat.