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Stepping Stones, Stepping Stones, Stepping Stones, Logo: 2016 Photo: May 2011

A photograph of some of those involved with Stepping Stones, recognized with the "Stepping Up Award", a pastry platter designed by residents. This is…

Tags: Award, Health, Homelessness, Housing, Nonprofits, Stepping Stones, Support, Youth

YMCA, The Young Mens Christian Association (YMCA), YMCA, 1881 - Present

The Young Men's Christian Association (commonly known as YMCA) is a worldwide organisation with more than 58 million beneficiaries from 125 national…

Tags: Christian, Community, Empowerment, Health, Nonprofits, YMCA

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

Harris & Ewing, Trailer Clinic, Library of Congress, 1937

Dr. L.E. Burney and Nurse Fran Miller, members of the Public Health Service staff traveled with the trailer which was built for use in a syphilis…

Tags: Disease, Fran Miller, Health, L.E. Burney, Public Health, Public Health Service, Syphilis

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…

Tags: Biomedical, Diseases, Health, Library of Medicine, National Library of Medicine, NLM, Researcg

The Senate Finance Committee , United States Senate Committee on Finance, 1789 -, The Senate Finance Committee , First photo - 1932-8 Second photo - 2016

During the Senate’s first 27 years (1789-1816), it had no standing committees.  The early Senate was a small body.  It conducted its work through…

Tags: Congress, Health, Senate Finance Committee, Tax, Trade, US Senate

The American Red Cross, Volunteer for Red Cross Motor Corps, National Archives, 1941-1945

Posters such as these were created by the American Red Cross to recruit volunteers during wartime.

The Motor Corps consisted of 45,000 women who…

Tags: American Red Cross, Health, Motor Corps, Volunteerism, War, Women

District of Columbia Society for the Prevention of Blindness, Wash your hands, before touching your eyes, National Archives, 1941-1945

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Tags: Blindness, Cleanliness, Eye Health, Health, Hygiene, Public Health, Wash Your Hands

Wellbee Poster, CDC, 1964

In this poster, Wellbee cheerfully reminds the viewer to “be well” and “be clean” by washing his or her hands regularly, suggesting a clear connection…

Tags: Campaign, CDC, Cleanliness, Fitness, Health, Polio, Safety, Wellbee

Frances Mori, World Health Organization (WHO), WHO, 2016

WHO began when our Constitution came into force on 7 April 1948 – a date we now celebrate every year as World Health Day. We are now more than 7000…

Tags: AIDS, Global, Guidelines, Health, WHO, World Health Organization