First photo - U.S. Government Printing Office. Second photo - U.S. National Library of Medicine, U.S. National Library of Medicine, National Library of Medicine, First photo - 1945. Second photo - 1999
The National Library of Medicine (NLM), on the campus of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, has been a center of information…
John Phillips, Mississippi Midwives: A Glimpse of Health Care History in the Segregated Community, John Phillips, 1929
These three photos were taken during the summer of 1929 in Indianola and Ruleville, Mississippi. The photos are part of a research project focusing on…
National Archives & National Library of Medicine, Public Health Posters, National Archives & National Library of Medicine, 1944 - First Picture, 1940s - Second Picture
In midcentury, public health groups took cues from the advertising industry to warn of various health risks. A retrospective of 20th-century health…