Have you had your pill today – Vintage 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 Have you had your pill today, a vintage poster rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Uncle Sam, who once pointed a finger from James Montgomery Flagg's 1917 recruiting poster, here asks a different question: have you had your pill today? The design borrows Flagg's "I Want You for U.S. Army" pose and turns a call to enlist into a message about birth control, a subject that was openly debated after the Food and Drug Administration approved oral contraceptives in 1960. Printed in color around 1968 and credited to Gross National Product, it shows how poster makers of the period reworked familiar wartime imagery to comment on social change.
| Created / published | c1968. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : color. |
| Genre | Posters American 1960-1970.Prints American Color 1960-1970. |
| Notes | Copyright by Gross National Product. Gift; Gary Yanker; 1975-1983. BAR updated record 1989-1994. jj / 860404. |
| Subjects | Flagg, James Montgomery,--1877-1960. I want you for U.S. Army. Birth control--1960-1970. Uncle Sam (Symbolic character)--1960-1970. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,167 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-169863 |
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