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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

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

Jose Perez, Public Health Doctor, National Library of Medicine, 1993

Artist Jose Perez published a series of his satirical paintings, including "The Public Health Doctor," where he caricatures former U.S. Surgeon…

Tags: Art, Artwork, Healthcare, Jose Perez, Paintings, Public Health, Public Health Doctor

CDC/ Mary Hilpertshauser, Polio Campaign, 1963, CDC, 1963

In 1961, oral polio vaccine (OPV) was invented by Dr Albert Sabin and introduced in the US. Sabin’s strategy was to give trivalent OPV to all children…

Tags: Albert Sabin, Campaign, Health, OPV, Polio, Public Health

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

The Straus Historical Society, Nathan Straus: New York City Board of Health, The Straus Historical Society, Circa 1900s

In 1897, Nathan Straus (1848-1931) became the President and Commissioner of the New York City Board of Health for a two year term. Nathan took his…

Tags: Board of Health, Life Lines, Nathan Straus, NYC, Public Health, Straus Family

The Straus Historical Society, Nathan Straus: Milk Depot, The Straus Historical Society, 1893

After the Civil War, there was some recognition that the quality of the milk sold to the city's poor was substandard. Small, but unsuccessful, efforts…

Tags: Anti-Poverty, Health, Milk, Milk Depot, Nathan Straus, Public Health, Straus Family

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

Boston University, Lisa J. Messersmith, Ph.D. - U.S. Public Health Researcher, Boston University, 2011

An American public health researcher helped shape AIDS law in Vietnam: Lisa J. Messersmith, Ph.D. Messersmith moved to Vietnam in 1998 to serve as…

Tags: AIDS, AIDS Prevention, Health, Lisa J. Messersmith, Public Health, Vietnam

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