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.
American Social Health Association Records (1905-2005), University of Minnesota, Social Welfare History Archives, Box 175, Folder 9, http://purl.umn.edu/62479.
American Social Health Association Records (1905-2005), University of Minnesota, Social Welfare History Archives, American Social Health Association, National Social Hygiene Day Posters, 1940-1952, Box Oversize flat 1, http://purl.umn.edu/62500.
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"VD Delays Victory : Let's Know The Facts : For Information and Literature Write To Ft. Greene Industrial Health Comm. : 295 Flatbush Avenue Extension or to American Social Hygiene Association"]]>2013-08-12T06:35:50+00:00
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"Unite the Whole Community Against VD" (Fort Greene)
This poster urges community participation in VD control to strengthen the war effort. This version has been personalized for use by a industrial health program in Fort Greene, an area in Brooklyn, NY.
"VD Delays Victory : Let's Know The Facts : For Information and Literature Write To Ft. Greene Industrial Health Comm. : 295 Flatbush Avenue Extension or to American Social Hygiene Association"
American Social Health Association Records (1905-2005), University of Minnesota, Social Welfare History Archives, Industrial Venereal Disease Projects, Box 116, Folder 15, http://purl.umn.edu/111205.
American Social Health Association Records (1905-2005), University of Minnesota, Social Welfare History Archives, American Social Health Association, National Social Hygiene Day Posters, 1940-1952, Box Oversize flat 1, http://purl.umn.edu/62392.
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"You...Your Organization Must Help Stamp Out Venereal Disease : Organize Community Action! : National Social Hygiene Day : The American Social Hygiene Association"]]>2013-08-12T06:39:25+00:00
This poster urges communities to get involved in National Social Hygiene Day to help eradicate VD.
"You...Your Organization Must Help Stamp Out Venereal Disease : Organize Community Action! : National Social Hygiene Day : The American Social Hygiene Association"
American Social Health Association Records (1905-2005), University of Minnesota, Social Welfare History Archives, American Social Health Association, National Social Hygiene Day Posters, 1940-1952 Box Oversize flat 1, http://purl.umn.edu/62560.
American Social Health Association Records (1905-2005), University of Minnesota, Social Welfare History Archives, American Social Health Association, National Social Hygiene Day Posters, 1940-1952 Box Oversize flat 1, http://purl.umn.edu/62427.
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This poster ties social hygiene efforts to those of servicemen. It is also promoting National Social Hygiene Day.]]>2013-08-12T06:39:25+00:00
American Social Health Association Records (1905-2005), University of Minnesota, Social Welfare History Archives, American Social Health Association, National Social Hygiene Day Posters, 1940-1952 Box Oversize flat 1, http://purl.umn.edu/62405.
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This pamphlet includes short entires about syphilis in alphabetical order. It was included in National Social Hygiene Day Program Kits.]]>2015-02-25T13:05:50+00:00
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"The A-B-C of Syphilis"
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"What the average person should know about a very dangerous and prevalent disease"
This pamphlet includes short entires about syphilis in alphabetical order. It was included in National Social Hygiene Day Program Kits.
This National Social Hygiene Poster features a cartoon that shows the ship of "prevention and cure of venereal disease" breaking up the ice pack of "prudery," "shush! shush!," and "ignorance."
American Social Health Association Records (1905-2005), University of Minnesota, Social Welfare History Archives, Box 177, Folder 16, http://purl.umn.edu/62460.
]]>https://vdarchive.newmedialab.cuny.edu/items/show/66 "One Newspaper's Contribution to Public Education on the Campaign Against Syphilis : A new story, an editorial and a cartoon in one issue. Other social hygiene features frequently appear in this publication, which is one of several hundred cooperating in the national campaign."]]>2013-08-12T06:39:25+00:00
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"We Can Get the Beast Out of His Lair We'll Win the Fight"
This is a reprint of a poster created for the first National Social Hygiene Day in 1937. It features a knight representing the "nation-wide fight on venereal diseases" attacking the monster of syphilis with a lance of "medical science and education. The syphilis monster resides in a cave labeled "mankind's ancient secretiveness adn false modesty."
"One Newspaper's Contribution to Public Education on the Campaign Against Syphilis : A new story, an editorial and a cartoon in one issue. Other social hygiene features frequently appear in this publication, which is one of several hundred cooperating in the national campaign."
American Social Health Association Records (1905-2005), University of Minnesota, Social Welfare History Archives, Box 177, Folder 16, http://purl.umn.edu/62565.