“To All Consumers and Retail Butchers of Brownsville & East New York… Protest Against the High Cost of Meat by Coming to our Demonstration.”

Estimate: $400–$600
Hammer price: Not recorded

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

author

(AMERICAN JUDAICA).

Place

Brooklyn, New York

Publication

(1935)

Description

Printed broadside. Text in English and Yiddish.

summary

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.

12 x 9 inches.

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