Browse Items (28 total)

Works Progress Administration Federal Art Project (Artist: Ben Kaplan), Health for Efficiency, Library of Congress, 1936-1941

This poster, sponsored by the Adult Education Project of the Board of Education and WPA, is an advertisement for free courses on "health education."…

Tags: Education, FDR, Federal Arts Project, Health Education, Posters, WPA

J. Carl Mueller, Hero Land, Library of Congress, 1917

Poster advertisement for Hero Land

Held at the Grand Central Palace in 1917 (from November 24-December 12), Hero Land was a WWI Allied war relief…

Tags: Events, Hero Land, Posters, War, War Relief, World War I

Valk, G., How everything started, Rutgers, 1968

"The theme of the poster is the approachability and accessibility of bureaucratic leaders. It tackles this subject with a great sense of humor. God,…

Tags: Art, Atheism, Bureaucracy, Cartoons, Posters, Religion, Satire

Works Progress Administration Federal Art Project, Milk Fund / Monster Vaudeville Show WPA Poster, Library of Congress, 1939

This poster encourages the viewer to "give to the needy" and "join the mayor's welfare milk fund." Created as part of the Federal Arts Project under…

Tags: Federal Arts Project, Milk Fund, Millicent Hearst, Monster Vaudeville Show, Posters, WPA

Works Progress Administration Federal Art Project (Artist: Erik Hans Krause), Nurse the Baby, Library of Congress, 1938

This poster promotes proper child care and breastfeeding technique, encouraging women to talk to their doctor and educate themselves through Health…

Tags: Child Care, FDR, Federal Arts Project, Posters, Women, WPA

National Library of Medicine, Public Health Poster, National Library of Medicine, Mid 1940s

In midcentury, public health groups took cues from the advertising industry to warn of various health risks. A retrospective of 20th-century health…

Tags: Diseases, Posters, Public Health, Syphilis

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…

Tags: Advertising, Diseases, Flies, Health, Posters, Public Health, Syphilis

The American Red Cross, Red Cross Volunteer Nurse's Aide, American Red Cross, 1941-1945

The American Red Cross created posters such as these to recruit volunteer nurses' aides. The caption reminds the viewer that "your help can save many…

Tags: American Red Cross, Blood Supply, Health, Nursing, Posters, Volunteerism

Kunnap, V., Save more!, Rutgers, 1972

"Poet: Alekseyev, V. “The Fighting Pencil” group, 1972
They met the savings quotas by hook and crook, and curves,
But for the celebration they ate…

Tags: Art, Cartoons, Corruption, Lavish, Posters, Satire, Waste

Louis Hirshman & William Tasker, Service on the Home Front, Library of Congress, ca. 1941-43

Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good actions; try to use ordinary situations. Jean Paul Richter, German author World War II posters…

Tags: Democracy, Home Front, Military Front, Nationalism, Posters, United States, World War II