Shame may be fatal If you fear you have contracted a disease dont let false shame des – 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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Shame may be fatal If you fear you have contracted a disease dont let false shame des comes to life in this vintage poster, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Few posters from the federal WPA art program speak as bluntly about a private illness as this one, which warns that shame may be fatal and urges anyone who suspects syphilis to see a doctor instead of hiding it. Designed in 1936 by the artist Alex Kallenberg and sponsored by the New York City Department of Correction, it reflects the Depression-era public health campaigns that aimed to bring venereal disease out of silence and into treatment. A later date stamp on the back, December 1937, shows the print was in use or on file about a year after it was made.
| Created / published | 1936 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Date stamped on verso: Dec 1 1937. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los Angeles : Wheatly Press c1987 no. 217 · Kallenberg Alex artist.New York (N.Y.). Dept. of Correction sponsor. |
| Subjects | Syphilis--New York (State)--New York--1930-1940. Health care--New York (State)--New York--1930-1940. Disgrace--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 1,225 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 507_Shame_may_be_fatal_If_y_1936 |
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