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2.1Map of Ireland accompanying Colonel Jones’s report to Sir C. Trevelyan, 21 Dec. 1849, with ‘distressed counties’ coloured.
2.2Map of famine regions illustrating the ‘Density of Starving Population in Russia’ in spring 1922, published by the League of Nations, Report, 165.
2.3Map showing famine-affected regions of Ethiopia, Eritrea, and Tigray, 1985.
3.1Funeral at Skibbereen, London Illustrated News, 30 Jan. 1847.
3.5Screenshot of the pamphlet Jewish Life Here and There – Some Pictures and a Few Facts by the Federation of Ukrainian Jews, London, 1922.
3.6Cover of Friends of Soviet Russia publication with lithograph Helft Russland (Help Russia) by Käthe Kollwitz, Soviet Russia, 15 Aug. 1922.
3.7Mohamed Amin (wearing hat) and Michael Buerk (in white suit) with their news team and Ethiopian children, 26 Oct. 1984.
3.8Danish singer Gitte Haenning (left) with German actress Edith Hancke at the recording of the Ein Tag für Afrika television fundraiser, 23 Jan. 1985.
3.9‘Ethiopie Meurt’ (Ethiopia is dying), MSF fundriaising campaign, 1985.
4.1Government sale of Indian corn at Cork, London Illustrated News, 4 Apr. 1846.
4.3Bill of exchange for £421.1.10 from Father Anthony Fahey, Buenos Aires, 1847.
4.4Packing ARA food remittances in Moscow, 1922. In contrast to previous remittance programmes, food parcels were now packed in the affected country.
4.5ARA feeding station for children in a former palace, 1922.
4.6Cover of Friends of Soviet Russia publication: ‘Machinery for Russia’ by Lydia Gibson.
4.7Trucks are loaded with grain at Addis Ababa airport, Jan. 1985.
4.9Kurt Jansson, UN assistant secretary-general for emergency relief operations in Ethiopia, visiting a camp in Mekelle, Tigray province, where famine victims are receiving food and medical care, 11 Nov. 1984.
5.1Account book of British Relief Association, entry of 5 Apr. 1847.
5.2Departure of the USS Jamestown for Cork, Ireland, Boston, 28 Mar. 1847.
5.3Moïse sauvé des eaux (Moses Saved from the Water). Engraving by Henri Laurent after Nicolas Poussin, eighteen copies of which were a gift to Society of St Vincent de Paul Cork for fundraising purposes, 1846.
5.4Receipt of Frederick Roesch, South Dakota, for a US$10 American Relief Administration remittance delivery to the Weiss family in St Zebrikowa, 1922.
5.5Workers’ Relief International (WIR) poster from 1922, printed in Kazan.
5.6Letter of gratitude to the American Relief Administration, depicting a life preserver with the Russian inscription ‘Thank you, ARA’.
5.7Explaining income and expenditure, War on Want Annual Report 1984–5.
5.8School pupils at Saladine Nook School, Huddersfield, with their collections of food for School Aid, Oct. 1985.
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