https://vdarchive.newmedialab.cuny.edu/items/browse?tags=selective+service&sort_field=added&sort_dir=a&output=atom2024-03-28T21:59:52+00:00Omekahttps://vdarchive.newmedialab.cuny.edu/items/show/45
This poster features photos of young people engaging in various activities and warns that syphilis is a disease of youth. It also cites statistics from the syphilis tests of the first men screened under the Selective Service Act.]]>2013-07-18T07:12:21+00:00
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"Diseases of Youth"
Description
"Of all new syphilis Infections, 60% occur In young people between 16 and 30 years of age : 90,000 of the First Two Million Selectees Tested Had Syphilis"
This poster features photos of young people engaging in various activities and warns that syphilis is a disease of youth. It also cites statistics from the syphilis tests of the first men screened under the Selective Service Act.
National Archives, Record Group 44: Records of the Office of Government Reports, 1932-1947, Series: World War II Posters, compiled 1942-1945, http://research.archives.gov/description/514117.
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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.]]>2013-08-12T06:56:22+00:00
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"First 2,000,000 Selectees Blood Tested for Syphilis"
"every state has a syphilis problem...Where does your state stand?"
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.
American Social Health Association Records (1905-2005), University of Minnesota, Social Welfare History Archives, Public Relations, Social Hygiene Day, Posters, Box 072, Folder 07, http://purl.umn.edu/110687.
]]>https://vdarchive.newmedialab.cuny.edu/items/show/423To the People of the United States]]>
(Click on the link below to download the film from the OPA.)]]>2014-02-07T12:34:08+00:00
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To the People of the United States
Description
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.)