Is your child vaccinated Vaccination prevents smallpox - Chicago Department of Health – Antique Poster Print
(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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This vintage poster of Is your child vaccinated Vaccination prevents smallpox - Chicago Department of Health brings a moment of history to your wall. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Is your child vaccinated Vaccination prevents smallpox - Chicago Department of Health
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A public health poster from Chicago asks parents a direct question, "Is your child vaccinated?", and answers it with a single line: vaccination prevents smallpox. The silkscreen was produced under the Federal Art Project, part of the Works Progress Administration, which employed artists during the Depression to make civic messages like this one for public agencies. Posters of this kind were meant to be read quickly on a street corner or clinic wall, and this one reflects a 1930s push to bring smallpox immunization to children in Chicago.
| Created / published | 1936 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Date stamped on verso: Mar 20 1941. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). · Federal Art Project sponsor. |
| Subjects | Vaccinations--Illinois--Chicago--1930-1950. Children--Health & welfare--Illinois--Chicago--1930-1950. Smallpox--Illinois--Chicago--1930-1950. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 2,755 × 4,096 px · prints to 9 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 339_Is_your_child_vaccinate_1936 |
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