"State Laws Protecting Marriage from Syphilis"
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This map shows the distribution of state laws requiring premarital syphilis tests in 1944.
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National Library of Medicine, Images from the History of Medicine, <a href="http://ihm.nlm.nih.gov/luna/servlet/detail/NLMNLM~1~1~101416838~150923:-Public-Health---United-States---Ma?sort=Title%2CSubject_MeSH_Term%2CCreator_Person%2CCreator_Organization&qvq=q:syphilis%2Bmap;sort:Title%2CSubject_MeSH_Term%2CCreator_Person%2CCreator_Organization;lc:NLMNLM~1~1&mi=36&trs=38">purl</a>.
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<em>To the People of the United States</em>
This film puts the syphilis problem in the context of the war. It presents the effects of the illness, statistics about how it affects the war effort, and control principles.
(Click on the link below to download the film from the OPA.)
National Archives, Record Group 90: Records of the Public Health Service, 1794-1990, Series: Motion Picture Films, 1924-1973, <a href="http://research.archives.gov/description/13276">http://research.archives.gov/description/13276</a>.
<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=40&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=1944">1944</a>
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<em>Syphilis: A Motion Picture Clinic</em>
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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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National Archives, Record Group 90: Records of the Public Health Service, 1794-1990, Series: Motion Picture Films, 1924-1973, <a href="http://research.archives.gov/description/13277">http://research.archives.gov/description/13277</a>.
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<em>Know For Sure</em>
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This film begins with the story of a young Italian-American couple whose baby is stillborn due to syphilis. It also tells the story of a young man who contracts the illness from a brothel. The film explains the effects of syphilis, emphasizes the importance of treatment, and warns against quacks. (Click on the link below to download from OPA.)
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National Archives, Record Group 90: Records of the Public Health Service, 1794-1990, Series: Motion Picture Films, 1924-1973, <a href="http://research.archives.gov/description/13270">http://research.archives.gov/description/13270</a>.
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"Is Your Family Safe?"
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"Guard them against syphilis, Get a blood test today"
This poster advises audiences to get a blood test. It features an image of an African American mother and her baby.
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E. Douglas Doak, “The Venereal Disease Education Institute,” JSH Vol. 30, No. 1 (Jan. 1944): 17. Accessible at Albert R. Mann Library, Cornell University, <a href="http://hearth.library.cornell.edu/">HEARTH</a>, 2013.
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"Know For Sure, Get Blood Tests Before Marriage"
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This poster featuring a happy newlywed couple advises people to be tested for syphilis before marriage.
<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=39&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=US+Government">US Government</a>
National Archives, Record Group 112: Records of the Office of the Surgeon General (Army), Series: Posters Promoting Venereal Disease Prevention and the Prevention of Other Diseases, circa 1942-1944.
<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=40&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=1941">1941</a>
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"Be Fit" Stamps
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These stamps were created to promote blood tests in NYC.
"Be Fit: Bureau of Social Hygiene, New York City: See Your Doctor : Be Examined : Have a Blood Test"
<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=39&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Theodore+Rosenthal%2C+Director%2C+Bureau+of+Social+Hygiene%2C+DOH">Theodore Rosenthal, Director, Bureau of Social Hygiene, DOH</a>
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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Blood Test Stamps
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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"
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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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"Expectant Mothers!"
<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=49&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Syphilis%E2%80%94Testing+">Syphilis—Testing </a>
This poster advises mothers to be tested for syphilis as soon as they know they are pregnant.
"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."
<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=39&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=ASHA">ASHA</a>
American Social Health Association Records (1905-2005), University of Minnesota, Social Welfare History Archives, Box 177, Folder 13.
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"Government and State Clinics"
<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=49&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Venereal+disease%E2%80%94Testing+">Venereal disease—Testing </a>
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"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"
National Library of Medicine, Images from the History of Medicine, <a href="http://ihm.nlm.nih.gov/luna/servlet/detail/NLMNLM~1~1~101453946~210198:Government-and-state-clinics?sort=Title%2CSubject_MeSH_Term%2CCreator_Person%2CCreator_Organization&qvq=q:C03508;sort:Title,Subject_MeSH_Term,Creator_Person,Creator_Organization;lc:NLMNLM~1~1&mi=0&trs=2">purl</a>.
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"Case Finding in Familial Syphilis and Prevention of Congenital Syphilis"
<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=49&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Syphilis%E2%80%94Congenital+">Syphilis—Congenital </a>
This chart diagrams the process of finding cases of syphilis within families and how to prevent congenital syphilis.
<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=39&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=ASHA">ASHA</a>
American Social Health Association Records (1905-2005), University of Minnesota, Social Welfare History Archives, Box 177, Folder 6.
<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=40&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=circa+1930">circa 1930</a>
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<em>Herald of Social Hygiene</em> (Detail--Bad Business Infographic)
<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=49&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Syphilis+control%E2%80%94Industry+participation+">Syphilis control—Industry participation </a>
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.
<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=39&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=ASHA">ASHA</a>
Papers of Dr. Thomas Parran, Jr., MD, Box 41, Folder 541, University of Pittsburgh Archive Service Center, Pittsburgh, PA.
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"Are We Checking the Great Plague?" (Detail--Blood Samples)
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This photograph shows a woman working with blood samples. This is from an article by R.A. Vonderlehr in <em>Survey Graphic</em> giving an update on the state of syphilis control in the US.
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Papers of Dr. Thomas Parran, Jr., MD, Box 41 Folder 544, University of Pittsburgh Archive Service Center, Pittsburgh, PA.
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"The future is yours...protect it!"
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"A blood test and a physical examination--every year, for you and yours."
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American Social Health Association Records (1905-2005), University of Minnesota, Social Welfare History Archives, US Navy, circa 1940-1945, Box Oversize flat 1 and map case drawer 11.
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"Our Family Are Having Their Blood Tests Like Thousands of Others"
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This is the cover to a syphilis pamphlet created for African American audiences. It shows a mother getting her blood drawn for a blood test while her husband and daughter look on.
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American Social Health Association Records (1905-2005), University of Minnesota, Social Welfare History Archives, Venereal Disease Projects, Negro Project, VD Pamphlets for Negroes, Box 119, Folder 02, <a href="http://purl.umn.edu/111229">http://purl.umn.edu/111229</a>.
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"Syphilis: A Message to the Negroes of Mississippi"
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This is the cover for a pamphlet created for African American audiences. It features a photograph of a black woman getting blood drawn.
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American Social Health Association Records (1905-2005), University of Minnesota, Social Welfare History Archives, Venereal Disease Projects, Negro Project, VD Pamphlets for Negroes, Box 119, Folder 02, <a href="http://purl.umn.edu/111229">http://purl.umn.edu/111229</a>.
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"Good Blood" (Detail--Women)
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These images are from a pamphlet created for African American audiences. It includes information about causes, symptoms, testing, treatment, and effects. While it does use the word "syphilis" a few times, it primarily uses the phrase "bad blood" to refer to the illness. One detail shows a woman in a doorway, one shows a woman getting blood drawn for a test.
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American Social Health Association Records (1905-2005), University of Minnesota, Social Welfare History Archives, Venereal Disease Projects, Negro Project, VD Pamphlets for Negroes, Box 119, Folder 02, <a href="http://purl.umn.edu/111229">http://purl.umn.edu/111229</a>.
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"Syphilis Can Be Cured"
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This poster informs viewers that syphilis can be cured if people are tested and treated adequately.
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American Social Health Association Records (1905-2005), University of Minnesota, Social Welfare History Archives, Box 176, Folder 03, <a href="http://purl.umn.edu/112299">http://purl.umn.edu/112299</a>.
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"Health Helps: Jane Has a Healthy Baby"
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This comic strip shows Jane consulting her doctor and getting a prenatal syphilis test. She has a healthy baby. There is also text accompanying the strip that gives more information.
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American Social Health Association Records (1905-2005), University of Minnesota, Social Welfare History Archives, C.D. Batchelor Cartoons, 1940-1941, Box 177, Folder 23.
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"Health Helps: Frank and Ann Guard Against Syphilis"
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This comic strip shows a couple, Frank and Ann, who consult their physician and get premarital syphilis exams. There is also text accompanying the strip that gives more information.
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American Social Health Association Records (1905-2005), University of Minnesota, Social Welfare History Archives, C.D. Batchelor Cartoons, 1940-1941, Box 177, Folder 23.
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"Syphilis is Bad Business"
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This infographic informs employers about the components of an industrial syphilis control program.
"1. Health every employee get a blood test, especially accident and chronic sickness cases. 2. Keep examination results condiential between doctor, patient and health officer. 3. Enlist support of employees in a health campaign against syphilis and gonorrhea. 4. Don't fire an employee because of syphilis. Health him get cured. 5. SUpport local and state efforts to reduce syphilis in and near your town. 6. Help your town provide recreation for all ages. 7. Fight quackery and commercialized prostitution--archive accomplices of venereal diseases. 8. Consult your local health authorities and the American Social Hygiene Association about your problems."
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ASHA, <em>Herald of Social Hygiene</em>, February, 1940, Papers of Dr. Thomas Parran, Jr., MD, University of Pittsburgh Archive Service Center, Pittsburgh, PA, Box 41, Folder 541.
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"Make Our Men as Fit as Our Machines"
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"regular physical check-ups...with blood tests"
This poster promotes the inclusion of syphilis blood tests in routine physicals.
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American Social Health Association Records (1905-2005), University of Minnesota, Social Welfare History Archives, United States Public Health Service posters, 1940s Box Oversize flat 1, <a href="http://purl.umn.edu/62451">http://purl.umn.edu/62451</a>.
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<em>Fight Syphilis</em>
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This film portrays syphilis as a threat to the war effort and urges citizens to help fight against it. It presents public health control methods and "social protection" concerns. Click on the link below to download from OPA.
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National Archives, Record Group 90: Records of the Public Health Service, 1794-1990, Series: Motion Picture Films, 1924-1973, <a href="http://research.archives.gov/description/13268">http://research.archives.gov/description/13268</a>.
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Educational
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"The A-B-C of Syphilis"
"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.
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American Social Health Association Records (1905-2005), University of Minnesota, Social Welfare History Archives, Box 071, Folder 12.
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"What You Don't Know <span style="text-decoration:underline;">Can</span> Hurt You"
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"Get a blood test for Syphilis"
This poster advises audiences to be tested.
<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=39&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=USPHS">USPHS</a>
<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=39&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=NARA%3A+Office+for+Emergency+Management.+Office+of+War+Information.+Domestic+Operations+Branch.+Bureau+of+Special+Services.">NARA: Office for Emergency Management. Office of War Information. Domestic Operations Branch. Bureau of Special Services.</a>
National Archives, Record Group 44: Records of the Office of Government Reports, 1932-1947, Series: World War II Posters, compiled 1942-1945, <a href="http://research.archives.gov/description/516134">http://research.archives.gov/description/516134</a>.
<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=40&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=between+1941+and+1945">between 1941 and 1945</a>
<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=43&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=NARA%3A+516134%0D%0AOPA%3A+44-PA-2406">NARA: 516134
OPA: 44-PA-2406</a>
<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=38&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=United+States%E2%80%94World+War+II+">United States—World War II </a>
"Syphilis May Cause"
<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=49&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Syphilis%E2%80%94Effects">Syphilis—Effects</a>
"Heart trouble, blindness, deafness, mental disorders : Have your blood tested"
This poster warns audiences about the effects of syphilis.
<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=39&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=NY+WPA+Federal+Art+Project">NY WPA Federal Art Project</a>
Library of Congress, “Prints and Photographs Online Catalog,” Prints and Photographs Division, <a href="http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3f05349">http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3f05349</a>.
<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=40&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=between+1936+and+1941">between 1936 and 1941</a>
<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=40&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=LOC+Note%3A+Date+stamped+on+verso%3A+May+14+1941.">LOC Note: Date stamped on verso: May 14 1941.</a>
<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=43&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=LOC%3A+cph+3f05349">LOC: cph 3f05349</a>
<a href="/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">United States--Great Depression</a>
"Know for Sure"
<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=49&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Syphilis%E2%80%94Testing+">Syphilis—Testing </a>
This poster advises audiences that a blood test is the only way to know if you have syphilis.
<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=39&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=USPHS">USPHS</a>
<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=39&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=OPA%3A+Office+for+Emergency+Management.+Office+of+War+Information.+Domestic+Operations+Branch.+Bureau+of+Special+Services.">OPA: Office for Emergency Management. Office of War Information. Domestic Operations Branch. Bureau of Special Services.</a>
National Archives, Record Group 44: Records of the Office of Government Reports, 1932-1947, Series: World War II Posters, compiled 1942-1945, <a href="http://research.archives.gov/description/514834">http://research.archives.gov/description/514834</a>.
<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=40&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=between+1941+and+1945">between 1941 and 1945</a>
<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=43&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=NARA%3A+514834%0D%0AOPA%3A+44-PA-1228">NARA: 514834
OPA: 44-PA-1228</a>
<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=38&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=United+States%E2%80%94World+War+II+">United States—World War II </a>
"Find Syphilis"
<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=49&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Syphilis%E2%80%94Testing+">Syphilis—Testing </a>
"Help Employees Get Blood Tests"
The poster promotes syphilis tests by employers.
<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=39&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Chicago%2C+IL+WPA+Federal+Art+Project">Chicago, IL WPA Federal Art Project</a>
Library of Congress, “Prints and Photographs Online Catalog,” Prints and Photographs Division, <a href="http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3f05184%20">http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3f05184</a>.
<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=40&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=between+1936+and+1941">between 1936 and 1941</a>
<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=40&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=LOC+Note%3A+Date+stamped+on+verso%3A+Mar+20+1941.">LOC Note: Date stamped on verso: Mar 20 1941.</a>
<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=43&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=LOC%3A+cph+3f05184">LOC: cph 3f05184</a>
<a href="/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">United States--Great Depression</a>
"No Physical Examination Complete without a Blood Test" (Cover)
<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=49&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Syphilis%E2%80%94Testing+">Syphilis—Testing </a>
"See Your Doctor To-day : Syphilis Can Be Prevented : Syphilis Can Be Cured : Bureau of Social Hygiene : 125 Worth St. N.Y.C."
This is the cover of a pamphlet about syphilis.
<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=39&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Theodore+Rosenthal%2C+Director%2C+Bureau+of+Social+Hygiene%2C+NYC+Department+of+Health">Theodore Rosenthal, Director, Bureau of Social Hygiene, NYC Department of Health</a>
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 640.
<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=40&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=circa+1940">circa 1940</a>
<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=37&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=NY+State+Department+of+Health">NY State Department of Health</a>
<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=37&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=USPHS">USPHS</a>
<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=37&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=WPA">WPA</a>
<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=43&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=NARA%3A+RC+201.5N72++Venereal+Disease+Study+NYC.">NARA: RC 201.5N72 Venereal Disease Study NYC.</a>
<a href="/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">United States--Great Depression</a>
"Stamp Out Syphilis!"
<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=49&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Syphilis%E2%80%94Exam+">Syphilis—Exam </a>
<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=49&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Syphilis%E2%80%94Testing+">Syphilis—Testing </a>
"The Work Projects Administration is Cooperating in the National Campaign to Stamp Out Syphilis! : 1. You are asked to go to your private doctor for a blood test. If you cannot pay for this go to any of the following : City Clinics : Health Center : 212 West 12th St. : Union Bethel <em>white only</em> : 501 East 3rd St. : Shoemaker <em>colored only</em> : 1041 Cutter St. : General Hospital : Burnet Ave : County Clinics : St. Simon COmmunity House : Woodlawn Ohio : Junior Hall : Addyston Ohio : North College Hill School <em>colored only</em> : Steelesub : 2. After having your blood tested have the doctor fill out the reporting slip and mail to the department of health city hall Cintio : This will in no way affect your employment with the Works Progress Administration : This information will be kept confidential: Please Let Us Have Your Help!"<br /><br />This poster urges WPA workers to visit their physician or a clinic to have a syphilis test. It emphasizes that the test is confidential and will not jeopardize employment with the WPA.
Ohio WPA Federal Art Program
<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=40&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=between+1936+and+1940">between 1936 and 1940</a>
<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=40&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=LOC+Note%3A+Date+stamped+on+verso%3A+May+28+1940.">LOC Note: Date stamped on verso: May 28 1940.</a>
<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=43&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=LOC%3A+cph+3f05407">LOC: cph 3f05407</a>
<a href="/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">United States--Great Depression</a>
"Syphilis, Its Cause, Its Spread..Its Cure!" (Detail--Blood Test)
<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=49&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Syphilis%E2%80%94Testing+">Syphilis—Testing </a>
"A bit of blood is carefully drawn from the arm for the blood test. It's as simple as a smallpox vaccination."
"The completed blood test. The milky solution on the right shows syphilis. THe clear solution means health."
Detail from an educational pamphlet by the USPHS on syphilis. One photograph shows a physician drawing blood from a patient. The second depicts a technician performing the blood test.
<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=39&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=USPHS">USPHS</a>
National Archives, Box 648, 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.
<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=45&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=US+Government+Printing+Officec">US Government Printing Officec</a>
<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=40&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=circa+1938">circa 1938</a>
<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=43&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=NARA%3A+RC+201.5C32+%E2%80%9C11+Pamphlets%2C+English+and+Other+Language%E2%80%9D">NARA: RC 201.5C32 “11 Pamphlets, English and Other Language”</a>
<a href="/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">United States--Great Depression</a>
"Syphilis, Its Cause, Its Spread..Its Cure!" (Pamphlet)
<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=49&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Syphilis%E2%80%94Causes+%0D%0A">Syphilis—Causes
</a>
<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=49&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Syphilis%E2%80%94Effects">Syphilis—Effects</a>
<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=49&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Syphilis%E2%80%94Testing">Syphilis—Testing</a>
<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=49&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Syphilis%E2%80%94Transmission">Syphilis—Transmission</a>
<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=49&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Syphilis%E2%80%94Treatment">Syphilis—Treatment</a>
An educational pamphlet by the USPHS on syphilis.
<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=39&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=USPHS">USPHS</a>
National Archives, Box 648, 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.
<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=45&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=US+Government+Printing+Office%0D%0A">US Government Printing Office
</a>
<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=40&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=circa+1938%0D%0A">circa 1938
</a>
<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=43&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=NARA%3A+RC+201.5C32+%E2%80%9C11+Pamphlets%2C+English+and+Other+Language%E2%80%9D">NARA: RC 201.5C32 “11 Pamphlets, English and Other Language”</a>
<a href="/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%0D%0A">United States--Great Depression
</a>
"Stamp Out Syphilis and Gonorrhea"
This poster urges viewers to have tests and exams to check for syphilis and gonorrhea.
"Have you had your blood test and examination : Go to your doctor of dept. of health : Bureau of Social Hygiene, 51 Stuyvesant Place, S.I."
<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=39&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=NYC+WPA+Federal+Art+Project">NYC WPA Federal Art Project</a>
Library of Congress, “Prints and Photographs Online Catalog,” Prints and Photographs Division, <a href="http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b49019">http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b49019</a>.
<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=40&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=between+1936+and+1938">between 1936 and 1938</a>
<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=40&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=LOC+Note%3A+Date+stamped+on+verso%3A+Feb+9+1938.">LOC Note: Date stamped on verso: Feb 9 1938.</a>
<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=37&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Bureau+of+Social+Hygiene">Bureau of Social Hygiene</a>
<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=43&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=LOC%3A+cph+3b49019">LOC: cph 3b49019</a>
<a href="/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">United States--Great Depression</a>
"Stamp Out Syphilis"
<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=49&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Syphilis%E2%80%94Testing+">Syphilis—Testing </a>
<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=49&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Family">Family</a>
This poster encourages couples to be tested before marriage to ensure healthy children.
"Every baby is entitled to be born healthy : Blood test & examination should be made before marriage by your doctor or Bureau of Social Hygiene Clinic, 51 Stuyvesant Place, Staten Island."
<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=39&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=NYC+WPA+Federal+Art+Project">NYC WPA Federal Art Project</a>
Library of Congress, “Prints and Photographs Online Catalog,” Prints and Photographs Division, <a href="http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3f05592">http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3f05592</a>.
<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=40&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=between+1936+and+1938">between 1936 and 1938</a>
<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=40&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=LOC+Note%3A+Date+stamped+on+verso%3A+Apr+9+1938.">LOC Note: Date stamped on verso: Apr 9 1938.</a>
<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=37&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Bureau+of+Social+Hygiene+">Bureau of Social Hygiene </a>
<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=43&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=LOC%3A+cph+3f05592">LOC: cph 3f05592</a>
<a href="/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">United States--Great Depression</a>
"Syphilis, False Shame and Fear May Destroy Your Future"
<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=49&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Syphilis%E2%80%94Shame+">Syphilis—Shame </a>
<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=49&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Syphilis%E2%80%94Testing+">Syphilis—Testing </a>
This poster shows a man and woman bowing their heads in shame and urges audiences to have a blood test.
"Have your blood tested."
<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=39&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Rochester%2C+NY+WPA+Federal+Art+Project">Rochester, NY WPA Federal Art Project</a>
<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=39&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Krause%2C+Erik+Hans%2C+b.+1899%2C+artist">Krause, Erik Hans, b. 1899, artist</a>
Library of Congress, “Prints and Photographs Online Catalog,” Prints and Photographs Division, <a href="http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b48848">http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b48848</a>.
LOC Note: Reference: Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los Angeles : Wheatly Press, c1987, no. 299.
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"Chicago Will Control Syphilis"
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This poster informs viewers that they can get blood tests locally.
"You may have your blood test free and confidentially at one of the following stations : Chicago Board of Health, Herman N. Bundesen, Pres."
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Library of Congress, “Prints and Photographs Online Catalog,” Prints and Photographs Division, <a href="http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b49555">http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b49555</a>.
<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=40&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=between+1936+and+1938">between 1936 and 1938</a>
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