Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress)
Poster shows a young woman holding books and a young man holding machine parts, with factories and city skyline below
Will You Be a Free Man or Chained
United States Army. Social Hygiene Division | Images from the History of Medicine
During the First World War, a tension developed between “social hygiene” reformers, who condemned illicit sexual behavior and emphasized education as the key to fighting venereal diseases, and more pragmatic medical officers who promoted prophylactic stations for the treatment of venereal diseases on military bases. This 1918 poster illustrates a common message promoted by social hygienists, who worked vigorously to close down red-light districts in American cities and to educate soldiers about refraining from sexual activity.
New York City views, Houston St. Junk markets II.
Gottscho-Schleisner Collection (Library of Congress)
1933 Mar. 10.
National campaign to stamp out syphilis
Ohio WPA Art Program | LoC Prints & Photographs Division
The Work Projects Administration is cooperating in the national campaign to stamp out syphilis
New York City views, Houston St. Junk markets I
Gottscho-Schleisner Collection (Library of Congress)
Ida B. Wells Homes
Library of Congress | Chicago : Illinois WPA Art Project, 1940.
Dedication ceremonies–Ida B. Wells Homes … parade along South Parkway … Chicago Housing Authority
Don’t fight cancer alone : Ask these agencies for advice [….]
Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress)
New York City views, Houston St. Junk markets
Gottscho, Samuel H. 1875-1971, (Samuel Herman), photographer.
1933 Mar. 10.
The face of the poor; or the crowding of London’s labourers: the rent they pay and the evils they endure
LSE
1897
