Browse Items (173 total)
""Keep Your Service Record from Reading 'Wounded by Syphilis and Gonorrhea'"
This poster urges servicemen to use prophylaxis.
Tags: gonorrhea, military, prophylaxis, syphilis
"A Community Program for Tuberculosis and Syphilis Control" (Survey Graphic Reprint)
"A Syphilitic Baby"
"Every child has a right to be well-born : If the father or the mother has syphilis, the child may be born or defective"
"Are We Checking the Great Plague?" (Detail--Map)
"Are We Checking the Great Plague?" (Detail--Microscope)
Tags: microscope, photograph, syphilis, test, woman
"Are We Checking the Great Plague?" (Detail--Quack Poster)
Tags: advertisement, gonorrhea, physician, quack, syphilis
"Are We Checking the Great Plague?" (Detail--Trailer)
"Are We Checking the Great Plague"
"Case Finding in Familial Syphilis and Prevention of Congenital Syphilis"
Tags: blood test, congenital syphilis, contacts, family, father, mother, pregnancy, syphilis, treatment
"Cases of Syphilis Traced to One Person in One Year"
Tags: children, infographic, man, pictorial statistic, prostitute, spirochete, syphilis, wife, woman
"Chances of an Infected Case"
Tags: infographic, man, pictorial statistic, relapse, statistic, syphilis, syringe, treatment
"Chicago Will Control Syphilis"
"You may have your blood test free and confidentially at one of the following stations : Chicago Board of Health, Herman N. Bundesen, Pres."
Tags: blood test, syphilis, syringe
"Did You Know"
Tags: blind, line graph, military, prophylaxis, statistic, syphilis
"Diseases of Youth, Syphilis and Gonorrhea"
This poster compares the prevalence of primary syphilis among different age groups of men and women. The text and the bar graph indicate that young people have the highest rates.
Tags: bar graph, gonorrhea, infographic, pictorial statistic, prevalence, statistic, syphilis, youth
"Diseases of Youth"
This poster features photos of young people engaging in various activities and warns that…
"Do Not Believe Him"
"If some 'wise guy' tells you that sexual intercourse is not dangerous, the facts are: A girl who would yield to one man has probably had relations…
Tags: gonorrhea, prophylaxis, prostitute, syphilis
"Don't Be a Dope...Play Safe!"
"Don't Wait, 70% are Doomed"
"Don't wait - 70% are doomed if treatment of syphilis is delayed for 3 years after the disease is contracted : Consult a reputable physician."
Tags: physician, statistic, syphilis, syphilophobia, treatment
"Easy to Get..Syphilis and Gonorrhea"
This poster warns that venereal diseases are easy to get. It shows a serviceman outside a bar with a woman. A prophylaxis station is across the street.
Tags: bar, corner, gonorrhea, man, night, prophylaxis, serviceman, street, syphilis, woman
"Fell'as You Bet I'm Going to Think--"
This poster appeals to servicemen's concerns about family, warning that VD could threaten their future plans. It features an image of a young woman and a baby.
"Fight...Syphilis and Gonorrhea"
Tags: fight, gonorrhea, pick-up, prophylaxis, prostitute, serviceman, syphilis
"Find Syphilis"
The poster promotes syphilis tests by employers.
Tags: arm, blood test, employee, industry, physician, smokestack, syphilis, syringe, worker
"First 2,000,000 Selectees Blood Tested for Syphilis"
This poster shows the rate of infection for each state. These statistics are based on the results of the blood tests given to men during their Selective Service examinations.
Tags: map, military, prevalence, selective service, syphilis
"Fool the Axis--Use Prophylaxis"
"Gonorrhea and Syphilis Lead Among Communicable Diseases"
"Good Blood" (Cover)
Tags: African American, bad blood, syphilis, woman
"Good Blood" (Detail--Blind Man)
This pamphlet about syphilis was 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…
"Good Blood" (Detail--Women)
Tags: African American, arm, bad blood, blood test, shadow, syphilis, syringe, woman
"Good News!"
This poster features a newsboy and informs viewers that gonorrhea and syphilis can be treated quickly.
"Health Helps: Frank and Ann Guard Against Syphilis"
Tags: blood test, children, couple, family, man, marriage, physician, premarital exam, syphilis, woman
"Health Helps: Jane Has a Healthy Baby"
"Hello Darling"
This poster features a woman smoking. The text connects her with syphilis.
Tags: cigarette, prostitute, syphilis, woman
"Help Fight Syphilis and Gonorrhea"
"Abstinence is the safest measure otherwise 1. use a contraceptive (rubber) 2.…
Tags: abstinence, gonorrhea, military, prophylaxis, serviceman, snake, soldier, syphilis
"Hooey! Phooey! Oh-oh! Slam!"
Tags: alcohol, germ, gonorrhea, prophylaxis, serviceman, syphilis, VD ward
"How Syphilis Spreads Through Prostitution"
This is an epidemiological chart that shows how one syphilis epidemic spread. This image was created earlier in the 1930s. Here it appears with a new heading.
Tags: children, congenital syphilis, contacts, family, man, prostitute, prostitution, rural, sex, south, syphilis, wife, woman
"How Syphilis Spreads"
"A physician in a middlewestern city asked the State Health Department to trace the source of infection in 3 cases of newly acquired infectious syphilis in his…
Tags: DOH, man, prostitute, syphilis, woman
"How Syphilis Spreads" (Survey Graphic Reprint)
This infographic shows how syphilis is spread in prostitution and marriage. These graphics are based on case records from the NY State Department of Health. The image is from a reprint of the July 1936 article…
Tags: children, death, marriage, microscopic view, prostitution, spirochete, syphilis
"I Know All About Women"
"Ignore Fake Advertisements"
"'Ads' in newspapers, booklets and tin signs are put out by 'quacks' to get money from ignorant boys and men. Patent…
Tags: advertisement, cure, gonorrhea, quack, syphilis