Negative blood during treatment does not mean cure Continue treatment until discharge – Historic Poster Reproduction
(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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Negative blood during treatment does not mean cure Continue treatment until discharge. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Negative blood during treatment does not mean cure Continue treatment until discharge
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A negative blood test does not mean a patient is cured, and this poster makes that warning its central message: treatment must continue until a doctor discharges the patient. Produced under the Federal Art Project in 1936, it belongs to the New York State health campaigns of the 1930s, which used public posters to urge people to finish long courses of treatment for venereal disease. The silkscreen color and the imagery of blood testing and the microscope reflect the program's effort to explain laboratory medicine to a general audience. A date stamp on the back, from 1939, shows the print stayed in circulation after its original run.
| Created / published | 1936 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Date stamped on verso: Jun 28 1939. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). · Federal Art Project sponsor. |
| Subjects | Health care--New York (State)--1930-1940. Blood testing--New York (State)--1930-1940. Microscopes--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 2,719 × 4,096 px · prints to 9 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 255_Negative_blood_during_t_1936 |
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