A lifelong job--the constant protection of their health--The Cook County Public Healt – Vintage Poster
(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: A lifelong job--the constant protection of their health--The Cook County Public Healt, preserved in this vintage poster. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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A lifelong job--the constant protection of their health--The Cook County Public Healt
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This poster's title, "A Lifelong Job," frames the protection of health as a responsibility that begins in infancy and continues through adulthood, and it was produced for the Cook County Public Health department in Chicago. Its subjects are mothers and children, the people public health nurses and clinics aimed to reach in the 1930s, when many families in the city had little access to regular medical care. The Federal Art Project, part of the Works Progress Administration, sponsored posters like this one to carry public health and civic messages to a wide audience. The silkscreen process it uses, with flat areas of color, was well suited to the low-cost printing the program relied on.
| Created / published | 1936 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Date stamped on verso: Jan 8 1941. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). · Federal Art Project sponsor. |
| Subjects | Mothers & children--Illinois--Chicago--1930-1950. Health care--Illinois--Chicago--1930-1950. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 2,830 × 4,096 px · prints to 9 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 646_A_lifelong_jobthe_const_1936 |
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