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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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