Gonorrhea causes blindness - arthritis invalidism and misery It can be prevented and – Historic Poster Reproduction
(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 Gonorrhea causes blindness - arthritis invalidism and misery It can be prevented and, 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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This 1936 silkscreen poster stands out for its blunt list of consequences: blindness, arthritis, invalidism and misery, all tied to untreated gonorrhea. It was produced under the Work Projects Administration and sponsored by the Staten Island Case Finding Project, reflecting the 1930s public health push to bring venereal disease out of silence and into clinics. Before antibiotics, gonorrhea could cause eye damage in newborns and joint inflammation in adults, so the warning rested on the medicine of the day. A June 28, 1939 date stamp on the back shows the poster was still being recorded three years after it was printed.
| Created / published | 1936 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Date stamped on verso: Jun 28 1939. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Sponsored by Staten Island Case Finding Project. · Sullivan Arthur Sir 1842-1900. Mikado.Federal Theatre Project (U.S.) sponsor. |
| Subjects | Gonorrhea--New York (State)--New York--1930-1940. Medical care--New York (State)--New York--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 2,629 px · prints to 14 × 9 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 631_Gonorrhea_causes_blindn_1936 |
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