Social Hygiene Society – Vintage Wall Art
![Social Hygiene Society, [1922] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/86/86a4cccaf35c-L.webp)
(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: Social Hygiene Society, preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Social Hygiene Society
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The title on this glass negative names the Social Hygiene Society, a label the National Photo Company wrote on the negative or its sleeve, though it has not been independently verified. The society belonged to the early twentieth-century social hygiene movement, which campaigned for public education on venereal disease and sexual health and drew wide attention in the years after World War I. The National Photo Company, based in Washington, D.C., made many negatives of this kind during the 1910s and 1920s. Note the streaks and blemishes on the glass, which come from deterioration in the original coating.
| Created / published | [1922] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negative or negative sleeve. Date from negatives in same range. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. This glass negative might show streaks and other blemishes resulting from a natural deterioration in the original coatings. Temp. note: Batch five. |
| Source | Library of Congress, National Photo Company Collection |
| Original scan | 6,022 × 4,370 px · prints to 20 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-NPC-253015 |
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