Your blood is bad means you have syphilis You can give it to others through sexual in – Vintage Poster Wall Art
(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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Step back in time with Your blood is bad means you have syphilis You can give it to others through sexual in, a vintage poster rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Its blunt title, "Your blood is bad means you have syphilis," sets it apart from the broader health posters of the period. The silkscreen was produced under the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project and sponsored by New York's Department of Correction, a reminder that public health messaging reached institutions as well as streets. In the 1930s, syphilis was a serious and widely discussed public health problem, and blood testing was the main way to detect it. The poster's plain warning about transmission through sexual contact reflects a period when officials increasingly spoke about the disease openly, even as many people still avoided the subject.
| Created / published | 1936 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Date stamped on verso: Jun 4 1937. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). · 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. Blood testing--New York (State)--New York--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 2,780 × 4,096 px · prints to 9 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 259_Your_blood_is_bad_means_1936 |
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