Browse Items (42 total)

National Library of Medicine/Mullick, Biman, Tobacco or Health: Choose Health, National Library of Medicine, 1988

The headline in this poster presents a choice between tobacco and health, while an abstraction of a human head chooses flowers over a cigarette.
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Tags: Health, Public Health, Tobacco, WHO, World Health Organization

National Archives, Tenement House Act, National Archives, ca. 1900

In 1867, 495,000 people in New York City were living in tenement buildings. Overcrowding (in some areas, a population density of 240,000 people per…

Tags: Housing, New York, NYC, Overcrowding, Safety, Tenement House

Library of Congress, Cook County Public Health Unit, Library of Congress, 1936-1941

This poster is one of the 907 posters produced by Work Projects Administration (WPA) from 1936 to 1943 by various branches of the WPA. The posters…

Tags: Arts, Community, Cook County, Education, Programs, Public Health, WPA

Bain News Service, Stephen Smith, Founder of the American Public Health Association, Library of Congress, 1-Jan-14

Stephen Smith, a physician and attorney, served on the New York City's Metropolitan Health Board and founded the American Public Health Association in…

Tags: APHA, Health, Healthcare, Public Health, Stephen Smith

American Red Cross, American Red Cross, National Archives, 1941-1945

After World War I, the Red Cross became involved with a variety of public health programs. In 1921, for example, they began offering nutrition courses…

Tags: American RedCross, Home Nursing, Infant Care, Nutrition, Public Health, RedCross, Sanitation

Alaska department of Health and Social services, AIDS Preventing Project, Alaska department of Health and Social services, None

Various posters to provide education about AIDS
(i) A small boy standing on a stool with his hands on top of a very large blue book with
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Tags: AIDS, AIDS Prevention, Campaign, Education, HIV, HIV Prevention, Public Health

Unknown, Mary Eliza Mahoney, First African American Nurse 1845-1926, HCR Home Care, Late 1800s

Mary Mahoney was the first African-American woman to study and work as professionally trained nurse. Born in Massachusetts, she was a hospital worker…

Tags: African-Americans, Mary Mahoney, Nursing, Women, Women's Rights

U.S. Postal Service, Mary Breckinridge, Nurse, The Smithsonian National Postal Museum , 1998

Mary Breckinridge was an American nurse-midwife and the founder of the New Model of Rural Health Care & Frontier Nursing Service. She started family…

Tags: Healthcare, Mary Breckinridge, Nursing, Public Health, Rural Healthcare

Harris & Ewing, Lillian Wald, First President of the National Organization for Public Health Nursing, Library of Congress, Between 1905 and 1940

Lillian D. Wald ( 1867 – 1940) was a nurse, social worker, public health official, teacher, author, editor, publisher, activist for peace, women's,…

Tags: Health Insurance, Lillian Wald, NOPHN, Nursing, Women

Hermann Günther, John M. Woodworth, First Surgeon General, U.S. Department of Health & Human Service:, 1865

This photograph is of John Maynard Woodworth, (1837-1879), the first Surgeon General. The position was first created in 1871 in order to head the…

Tags: HHS, John Woodworth, Marine Hospital, Marines, Surgeon General