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Polio research a light is beginning to dawn / Herbert Bayer. – Vintage Print

Polio research a light is beginning to dawn / Herbert Bayer., New York : National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, Inc., [1949] — vintage poster
Polio research a light is beginning to dawn / Herbert Bayer., New York : National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, Inc., [1949]. Vintage poster from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Herbert Bayer, the Austrian-born designer trained at the Bauhaus, made this 1949 poster for the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, the group behind the March of Dimes. Its title, "a light is beginning to dawn," presents polio research as a promise of hope during years when the disease killed or paralyzed thousands of children and young adults, many of whom depended on iron lungs to breathe. Bayer had settled in New York in 1938, and he brought a modernist sense of design to fundraising art. The poster's bold color and simple imagery reflect how mid-century public health campaigns borrowed the techniques of advertising and avant-garde design.

Created / publishedNew York : National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, Inc., [1949]
Medium1 print (poster) : color.
GenrePosters 1940-1950.Prints Color 1940-1950.
NotesPromotional goal: U.S. F3. 1949.
SubjectsPoliomyelitis--1940-1950.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan994 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-132286

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