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"War Front of Home Front, America Needs You Healthy!"
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.
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 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 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 They are dressed as pilgrims and driving a horse and buggy to bring attention to outdated and backwards ideas about venereal disease.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.