https://vdarchive.newmedialab.cuny.edu/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=38&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=United+States--Great+Depression&output=atom2024-03-28T08:57:00+00:00Omekahttps://vdarchive.newmedialab.cuny.edu/items/show/421Syphilis: A Motion Picture Clinic]]>
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This film was created to educate physicians about venereal disease. It explains symptoms and how to diagnose syphilis, general control principles, treatment, congenital syphilis, and other topics.
(Click on the link below to access the film at the OPA.)
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"Be Fit: Bureau of Social Hygiene, New York City: See Your Doctor : Be Examined : Have a Blood Test"]]>2013-11-08T09:04:33+00:00
National Archives, Record Group 69: Records of the Works Progress Administration, 1922-1944, Series: State Project Reports and Research Publications, compiled 1933-1943, documenting the period ca. 1605-1949, Box 650.
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"See Your Doctor : Be Examined : Have a Blood Test : Bureau of Social Hygiene : N.Y.C. Health Dept. Cooperating with N.Y. State Health Dept. & U.S. Public Health Service"]]>2013-11-08T08:55:38+00:00
These stamps were created to promote blood tests in NYC.
"See Your Doctor : Be Examined : Have a Blood Test : Bureau of Social Hygiene : N.Y.C. Health Dept. Cooperating with N.Y. State Health Dept. & U.S. Public Health Service"
National Archives, Record Group 69: Records of the Works Progress Administration, 1922-1944, Series: State Project Reports and Research Publications, compiled 1933-1943, documenting the period ca. 1605-1949, Box 650.
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"You Can Have A Healthy Baby : Ask your Doctor to give you a Careful Physical Examination including Blood Test as soon as you know a Baby is Coming."]]>2015-02-25T13:05:49+00:00
This photograph shows an exhibit on public health at the 1939 New York World's Fair. It features displays on infantile paralysis (polio), tuberculosis, rickets, and other issues. There is also an iron lung displayed.
This photograph shows an exhibit about syphilis titled, "The Shadow on the Land" that appeared at the 1939 World's Fair. It features a large microscope, photographs of family and children, and a map of the United States. Fair visitors are shown looking at the exhibit.
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American Social Health Association Records (1905-2005), University of Minnesota, Social Welfare History Archives, Box 186, Folder 1.
JSH, Vol. 23, No. 7 (Oct. 1937): 364 b. Accessible at Albert R. Mann Library, Cornell University, HEARTH, 2013. Originally appeared in St. Louis Post Dispatch.
Jean Pinney, “The First National Social Hygiene Day,” JSH, Vol. 23, No. 3 (Mar. 1937): 110. Accessible at Albert R. Mann Library, Cornell University, HEARTH, 2013. Originally appeared in the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel.
Jean Pinney, “The First National Social Hygiene Day,” JSH, Vol. 23, No. 3 (Mar. 1937): 114. Accessible at Albert R. Mann Library, Cornell University, HEARTH, 2013. Originally appeared in the San Diego Sun.
"Clinics give free : Blood Tests : Medicine : Advice : Pamphlets : These are given confidentially : Any one who has been exposed should go at once to a good doctor or a good clinic : By certain tests : The presence of syphilis or gonorrhea germs can be discovered : These germs can be just as easily recognized as any criminal whose picture is in the Rogues' Gallery"
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National Library of Medicine, Images from the History of Medicine, purl.
This photograph shows a display about the syphilis campaign in the window of a drugstore in New York City.
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Pauline F. Geffen, “The Pharmacist’s Role in Combatting Syphilis,” JSH, Vol. 26, No. 1 (Jan. 1940): 30. Accessible at Albert R. Mann Library, Cornell University, HEARTH, 2013.
These photographs show young people parading around the Kips Bay Yorkville area of New York City to promote their anti-syphilis campaign. They are dressed as pilgrims and driving a horse and buggy to bring attention to outdated and backwards ideas about venereal disease.
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Margaret Cummings, “Youth Fights Syphilis in a City Health District: Report of a Youth Social Hygiene Campaign in the Kips Bay-Yorkville District of New York City, June-December, 1938,” JSH, Vol. 25, No. 4 (Apr. 1939): 176. Accessible at Albert R. Mann Library, Cornell University, HEARTH, 2013.
This cartoon shows boats labeled law, education, scientific medicine, and public health sweeping away mines representing quackery to safeguard the "National Anti-Syphilis Campaign" ship. It is featured in the NSHD broadside.
This comic strip is one in the "Health Helps" series. It shows a worker, Jerry, who visits a quack for syphilis treatment. His employer advises him to see his family physician. It is featured in the NSHD broadside.
This infographic presents the steps industry should take to help control syphilis among their employees and within the community. It is featured in the NSHD broadside.
]]>https://vdarchive.newmedialab.cuny.edu/items/show/314Survey Graphic Mailer]]>Survey Graphic and Parran's article in particular.]]>2015-02-25T13:26:18+00:00
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Survey Graphic Mailer
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This is an advertising mailer promoting Survey Graphic and Parran's article in particular.
]]>https://vdarchive.newmedialab.cuny.edu/items/show/311Survey Graphic giving an update on the state of syphilis control in the US.]]>2013-09-27T09:16:37+00:00
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"Are We Checking the Great Plague?" (Detail--Blood Samples)
This photograph shows a woman working with blood samples. This is from an article by R.A. Vonderlehr in Survey Graphic giving an update on the state of syphilis control in the US.
]]>https://vdarchive.newmedialab.cuny.edu/items/show/310Survey Graphic giving an update on the state of syphilis control in the US.]]>2013-09-27T09:12:42+00:00
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"Are We Checking the Great Plague?" (Detail--Quack Poster)
This image is a poster warning audiences about quack treatments. It urges people to see a physician or health officer. This is from an article by R.A. Vonderlehr in Survey Graphic giving an update on the state of syphilis control in the US.
This map shows the distribution of legislation requiring pre-marital and pre-natal syphilis tests among the United States. This is from an article by R.A. Vonderlehr in Survey Graphic giving an update on the state of syphilis control in the US.
]]>https://vdarchive.newmedialab.cuny.edu/items/show/306Survey Graphic giving an update on the state of syphilis control in the US.]]>2015-07-09T11:51:31+00:00
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"Are We Checking the Great Plague?" (Detail--Trailer)
This photograph shows a trailer clinic in rural Georgia. There is a physician and some African American patients outside the trailer. This is from an article by R.A. Vonderlehr in Survey Graphic giving an update on the state of syphilis control in the US.
]]>https://vdarchive.newmedialab.cuny.edu/items/show/305Survey Graphic giving an update on the state of syphilis control in the US.]]>2013-09-27T08:54:59+00:00
This pictorial statistic compares TB mortality rates between different income groups in white and black communities. It is from a reprint of Parran's article in Survey Graphic on syphilis, TB, and African Americans.
This pictorial statistic compares the income of white and black families in different Southern cities. It is from a reprint of Parran's article in Survey Graphic on syphilis, TB, and African Americans.
This graphic highlights the important steps in controlling TB and syphilis. It is from a reprint of Parran's article in Survey Graphic on syphilis, TB, and African Americans.
]]>https://vdarchive.newmedialab.cuny.edu/items/show/300Survey Graphic Reprint)]]>Survey Graphic on syphilis, TB, and African Americans. The cover image features black medical professionals. The cotton on the bottom right references the South.]]>2015-07-18T09:10:44+00:00
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"No Defense for Any of Us" Cover (Survey Graphic Reprint)
This is the cover for an article reprint of Parran's piece in Survey Graphic on syphilis, TB, and African Americans. The cover image features black medical professionals. The cotton on the bottom right references the South.
This infographic contrasts the rates of adequate treatment in the US and Copenhagen, which are approximately 5% and over 90% respectively. It is a graphic print for an image that appeared in Parran's 1937 book, Shadow on the Land.
This pictorial statistic contrasts the progression of syphilis in a person who seeks medical care and one who does not. It is a graphic print for an image that appeared in Parran's 1937 book, Shadow on the Land.
This pictorial statistic shows the rates at which syphilis is detected via Wasserman exams when it is given routinely and only when the illness is suspected. The image is a graphic print for an image that appeared in Parran's 1937 book, Shadow on the Land.
Source
Papers of Dr. Thomas Parran, Jr., MD, Box 41, Folder 537, University of Pittsburgh Archive Service Center, Pittsburgh, PA.
This pictorial statistic conveys that only a small percentage of children born to syphilitic mothers will be healthy if the mother does receive treatment during the pregnancy. It uses images of babies to represent the statistics. It is a graphic print for an image that appeared in Parran's 1937 book, Shadow on the Land.
This pictorial statistic outlines a plan for controlling syphilis. It is a graphic print for an image that appeared in Parran's 1937 book, Shadow on the Land.
This pictorial statistic shows how syphilis spreads between different people. It uses the spirochete symbol to indicate individuals' status. It is modeled after an epidemiological image from the early 1930s. Here, the image is presented without many of the details about the case that originally appeared with it. The infographic is is a graphic print for an image that appeared in Parran's 1937 book, Shadow on the Land.
This pictorial statistic compares the incidence of syphilis in New York State and Scandinavia (Denmark, Norway, Sweden). Though they have roughly equal populations, Scandinavia has a much lower rate of disease. It is a graphic print for an image that appeared in Parran's 1937 book, Shadow on the Land.
This pictorial statistic shows syphilis atop a list of health threats including scarlet fever, TB, auto accidents, and diphtheria. It is a graphic print for an image that appeared in Parran's 1937 book, Shadow on the Land.
This pictorial statistic conveys that most patients get less that 10 injections of treatment and that only a few injections commonly leads to relapses of syphilis. It uses images of syringes and men sitting and standing to represent the statistics. It is a graphic print for an image that appeared in Parran's 1937 book, Shadow on the Land.
This pictorial statistic conveys that syphilis is responsible for 15% of cases of blindness. It repeats the symbol of a blind man to represent the statistic. It is a graphic print for an image that appeared in Parran's 1937 book, Shadow on the Land.
This pictorial statistic shows syphilis rates among different African American communities. It uses a symbol of a man with a spirochete on his chest to represent the statistic. It is a graphic print for an image that appeared in Parran's 1937 book, Shadow on the Land.
American Social Health Association Records (1905-2005), University of Minnesota, Social Welfare History Archives, United States Government and Military VD Graphic posters, 1940s Box Oversize flat 1, http://purl.umn.edu/62467.
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This poster promotes adequate treatment by a physician and reminds viewers that syphilis can affect the family.]]>2013-07-29T07:32:38+00:00
American Social Health Association Records (1905-2005), University of Minnesota, Social Welfare History Archives, United States Government and Military VD Graphic posters, 1940s, Box Oversize flat 1, http://purl.umn.edu/62529.
This photograph shows a display about syphilis created by the Hartford Public Library. It includes infographics and charts along with some items used in syphilis control. Some of the images are reprints of ones from Parran's work.