Faites preacuteserver vos enfants contre la tuberculose par le vaccin B.C.G. – Historic 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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A window into the past: Faites preacuteserver vos enfants contre la tuberculose par le vaccin B.C.G., preserved in this vintage poster. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Faites preacuteserver vos enfants contre la tuberculose par le vaccin B.C.G.
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A nurse and young children share the foreground of this 1917 French lithograph, which urges parents to have their children vaccinated with the B.C.G. vaccine against tuberculosis. Albert Calmette and Camille Guérin were developing the vaccine in France during the First World War, when tuberculosis threatened civilian and military health alike. The poster is signed by Vilà, and its pairing of a caregiver with children presents vaccination as a protective, almost maternal act.
| Created / published | 1917 |
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| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph color ; 80 x 61 cm. |
| Notes | Translation of title: Vaccinate your children with vacine B.C.G. Signed: Vilaacute. Promotional goal: Fr. G32. 1917. Item is no. 216 in a printed checklist available in the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Reading Room. BZ · Rehse Archiv fuumlr Zeitgeschichte und Publizistik former owner. DLC |
| Subjects | Nurses--France--1910-1920. Children--Health & welfare--France--1910-1920. Vaccinations--France--1910-1920. World War 1914-1918--Medical aspects--France. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Posters: Artist Posters |
| Original scan | 2,796 × 4,096 px · prints to 9 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 554_Faites_preacuteserver_v_1917 |
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