Health as a Christmas gift to America – Vintage Print
![Health as a Christmas gift to America, [between 1920 and 1936] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/b4/b4cc594fd4c5-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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Health as a Christmas gift to America
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Radio is the thread running through this portrait, which shows officials posed around a microphone in Washington, D.C., under the title "Health as a Christmas gift to America." The record names Hugh S. Cumming, who led the U.S. Public Health Service as Surgeon General through much of the 1920s and into the mid-1930s, along with Joseph W. Schereschewsky, Allan J. McLaughlin and Richard H. Creel. Radio was still a young medium then, and federal agencies were beginning to use broadcasts to bring health advice directly into American homes. The picture is a useful record of how government officials presented public health to a national audience in the years between the wars.
| Created / published | [between 1920 and 1936] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Portrait photographs 1920-1940.Group portraits 1920-1940.Photographic prints 1920-1940. |
| Notes | No. 13506 RU. |
| Subjects | Creel, Richard Henry,--1878- Schereschewsky, Joseph Williams,--1873-1940. Cumming, Hugh S. (Hugh Smith),--1869-1948. McLaughlin, Allan J. (Allan Joseph),--1872- Radio broadcasting--Washington (D.C.)--1920-1940. Government officials--United States--1920-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,265 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-183381 |
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