This photograph shows a anti-syphilis display in a drugstore window for National Social Hygiene Day.
Source
Eleanor Shenehon, “The Communities Respond to the Call to Social Hygiene Day,” JSH Vol. 31, No. 3 (Mar. 1945): 189. Accessible at Albert R. Mann Library, Cornell University, HEARTH, 2013.
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This poster uses Japanese stereotypes and warns audiences that gonorrhea (clap) threatens the war effort. ]]>2015-07-18T08:59:46+00:00
"Prophylaxis Prevents Venereal Disease : Pro Stations in this Area at All Dispensaries"
This poster uses Japanese stereotypes and warns audiences that gonorrhea (clap) threatens the war effort.
Source
Gaylord W. Anderson, “Venereal Disease Education in the Army,” JSH Vol. 30, No. 1 (Jan. 1944): 25. Accessible at Albert R. Mann Library, Cornell University, HEARTH, 2013.
This photograph shows a display about the syphilis campaign in the window of a drugstore in New York City.
Source
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 They are dressed as pilgrims and driving a horse and buggy to bring attention to outdated and backwards ideas about venereal disease.
Source
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.
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This is an ASHA order form for posters versions of cartoon titled, "Isn't it fair to warn her?"
"'Three-fourths of all syphilis infections are acquired by young people between the ages of 16 and 30 years.' : Isn't it fair to warn her? : Syphilis Can Be Stamped Out! : Ask--The American Social Hygiene Association : How Your Can Help! : This cartoon by the 1937 Pulitzer prize-winner was published by the New York Daily News on the Second National Social Hyignee Day. By permission of the News and the artist the Association reproduces it as a poster."
American Social Health Association Records (1905-2005), University of Minnesota, Social Welfare History Archives, Box 173, Folder 10, http://purl.umn.edu/112040.