As old as creation Syphilis is now curable :Consult your physician / JD. – 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 1936 poster names Dr. W.H. Runcie, health officer for the Town of Hempstead on Long Island, and its headline frames syphilis as an ancient affliction: "as old as creation." Its dinosaur motif, an unusual choice for a health notice, plays on that age to suggest a bygone disease that treatment could now end. The Federal Art Project produced many such public health posters in the 1930s, when venereal disease was a widely discussed concern. The word "curable" reflected real but limited progress, since treatment then relied on arsenic- and bismuth-based drugs, and the poster's central advice was to consult a physician.
| Created / published | 1936 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Town of Hempstead W.H. Runcie M.D. Health Officer. Date stamped on verso: Dec 1 1937. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). · Federal Theatre Project (Boston Mass.) sponsor.Federal Art Project sponsor. |
| Subjects | Syphilis--New York (State)--Hempstead--1930-1940. Health care--New York (State)--Hempstead--1930-1940. Dinosaurs--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 987 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 505_As_old_as_creation_Syph_1936 |
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