Public Health Posters
Title
Public Health Posters
Description
In midcentury, public health groups took cues from the advertising industry to warn of various health risks. A retrospective of 20th-century health posters features work from numerous countries on an array of diseases.
Creator
National Archives & National Library of Medicine
Date
1944 - First Picture, 1940s - Second Picture
Source
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/%22WHEN_A_FLY_WIPES_HIS_FEET_ON_YOUR_FOOD%2C_HE%27S_SPREADING_DISEASE%5E_NEVER_GIVE_A_GERM_A_BREAK%22_-_NARA_-_516140.jpg/726px-%22WHEN_A_FLY_WIPES_HIS_FEET_ON_YOUR_FOOD%2C_HE%27S_SPREADING_DISEASE%5E_NEVER_GIVE_A_GERM_A_BREAK%22_-_NARA_-_516140.jpg
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Relation
Rights
Source: Schaffer, Amanda. (2008, Nov 3). Gave Warnings of Disease, With the Adman's Flair. New York Times. Retrieved Oct 15, 2012, from http://nyti.ms/Xgn6A6
Publisher
National Archives & National Library of Medicine
Contributor
National Archives & National Library of Medicine
Format
First Poster, Medium: Poster
Second Poster, Medium:Poster
Second Poster, Medium:Poster
Language
English
Type
Poster
Identifier
Posters, Public Health, Advertising, Health, Diseases, Flies, Syphilis
Coverage
United States
Files
Collection
Reference
National Archives & National Library of Medicine, Public Health Posters, National Archives & National Library of Medicine, 1944 - First Picture, 1940s - Second Picture
Cite As
National Archives & National Library of Medicine, “Public Health Posters,” Virtual Museum of Public Service, accessed April 19, 2024, https://vmps.omeka.net/items/show/257.