Dont fight cancer alone Ask these agencies for advice [....] – Vintage Poster
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(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: Dont fight cancer alone Ask these agencies for advice [....], preserved in this vintage poster. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Few posters from the Work Projects Administration spoke as plainly about cancer as this one, which urges the public not to "fight cancer alone" and instead to seek guidance from a short list of named agencies. The caption directs readers to their state or local medical society, their health department, a cancer committee, or the Women's Field Army of the American Society for the Control of Cancer. The poster was produced in 1936 as a silkscreen print, and the Federal theater Project is credited as its sponsor. It was part of a broader federal effort in the 1930s to promote public health through art, when cancer was widely feared and little understood by ordinary Americans.
| Created / published | 1936 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Date stamped on verso: Sep 2 1938. Caption continues: Your state or local medical society - Your state or local health department - Cancer committee or state medical societies - The Womens Field Army of The American Society for the Control of Cancer. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). U.S. Public Health Service in cooperation with the American Society for Control of Cancer. Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los Angeles : Wheatly Press c1987 no. 280 · Federal Theatre Project (New York N.Y.) sponsor. |
| Subjects | United States. Public Health Service--Public relations--1930-1940. Cancer--1930-1940. Health care--New York (State)--New York--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 1,209 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 294_Dont_fight_cancer_alone_1936 |
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