Your family needs protection against syphilis Your wife or husband and children shoul – Vintage Poster Wall Art
(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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Step back in time with Your family needs protection against syphilis Your wife or husband and children shoul, a vintage poster rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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A health message aimed at the whole household, this silkscreen poster asks families to protect a wife or husband and children from syphilis. Produced under the Federal Art Project in New York State during the 1930s, it reflects public health campaigns that treated venereal disease as a family concern rather than a private matter. Syphilis was widespread then and could pass from parent to child before birth, which gave the warning real weight. The poster's bold color and plain wording show how the program used modern graphic design to reach people who would never have read a health pamphlet.
| 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). Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los Angeles : Wheatly Press c1987 no. 218 Published in: Eyes of the nation : a visual history of the United States / Vincent Virga and curators of the Library of Congress ; historical commentary by Alan Brinkley. New York : Knopf 1997. · Federal Art Project sponsor. |
| Subjects | Mothers & children--1930-1940. Syphilis--New York (State)--New York--1930-1940. Health care--New York (State)--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 986 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 333_Your_family_needs_prote_1936 |
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