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"V.D. (Venereal Diseases) Can Be Cured : Go to Your Doctor or Clinic Today"]]>2013-11-08T10:11:32+00:00
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"War Front of Home Front, America Needs You Healthy!"
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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.
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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.
This photograph shows young men looking at a exhibit of social hygiene posters. This page originally appeared in a book titled, Two Years Fighting V.D. (1920) by the USPHS.
American Social Health Association Records (1905-2005), University of Minnesota, Social Welfare History Archives, Box 169, Folder 06, http://purl.umn.edu/111701.
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.
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 They are dressed as pilgrims and driving a horse and buggy to bring attention to outdated and backwards ideas about venereal disease.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 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.
This photograph shows a anti-syphilis display in a drugstore window for National Social Hygiene Day.
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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.
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.