1909 Ad New York Improving Poor Children Condition Philanthropy Charitable TRV1 AMW1 The Speyer Cathedral

The Speyer Cathedral

This piece was illustrated by Leitch

Alice Faye

Oil Well Supply Company

1909 Ad New York Improving Poor Children Condition Philanthropy Charitable TRV1 AMW1 The Speyer CathedralThis is an original 1909 black and white print ad for the New York Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor (AICP). The charitable organization began in the 1840s in New York City with its focus on aiding the deserving poor and providing moral uplift. The organization's directors were the city's richest people, who believed that people were poor not due to external or environmental factors, but rather to some innate character fault within