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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

Melvin Baker, Jeffrey Wigand, Tobacco Industry Whistleblower, Melvin Baker, 2006

Jeffrey Wigand, the one-time tobacco executive, is now known synonymously with the term "whistleblower". When he realized how his company, Brown &…

Tags: Consumer Protection, Jeffrey Wigand, Public Health, Tobacco, Whistleblower

Images from the History of Medicine (NLM); Center for Disease Control, Parents of Earth, Are Your Children Fully Immunized?, Center for Disease Control, ca. 1977

The Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, in partnership with the Center for Disease Control, issued this poster to gently remind parents to…

Tags: CDC, Disease, DOH, Public Health, Vaccinations, Vaccines

Social Hygiene Division Army Educational Commission, Will You Be a Free Man or Chained, U.S. National Library of Medicine, 1918

This poster, released by the Social Hygiene Division (Army Educational Commission) was designed to spread awareness about venereal disease. This…

Tags: Campaign, Diseases, Public Health, Social Hygiene Division, Venereal Disease, World War I

Works Progress Administration Federal Art Project, Expecting? Get the Right Advice from the Right Sources, Library of Congress, September 2nd, 1938

Posters from the Works Progress Administration often focused on public health. This poster focuses on infant care, which was a particularly popular…

Tags: FDR, Federal Arts Project, Infant Care, Posters, Public Health, WPA

EPA, Drinking Water Security Poster, EPA, May 16th, 2003

This poster not only brings awareness to the importance of safe drinking water, but it also encourages the public to get involved and take action,…

Tags: EPA, Posters, Public Health, Public Water, SDWA, Water

Work Projects Administration, 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: Art, Cook County, Posters, Program, Public Health, WPA

U.S. National Library of Medicine, Chinese Public Health Movement, U.S. National Library of Medicine., 1930 to SARS

Chinese Public Health movement is the large collection of Chinese Public Health materials, about seven thousand items produced from early 20th century…

Tags: China, Chinese Public Health, Collection, Posters, Public Health, SARS

National Library of Medicine, AIDS Education Posters, National Library of Medicine, 1986

AIDS education poster advocating condom use and aimed toward educating people about HIV/AIDS prevention, risks, social advocacy, and compassion for…

Tags: AIDS, AIDS Education, AIDS Prevention, Posters, Public Health, Safe Sex

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