Expecting? Get the right advice from the right sources your doctor or health bureau – 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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This rare vintage poster captures Expecting? Get the right advice from the right sources your doctor or health bureau in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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A silkscreen poster from the Federal Art Project turns a public health message into something a woman might actually stop to read. Its headline, "Expecting? Get the right advice from the right sources: your doctor or health bureau," pairs a plain instruction with a stork, a familiar folk symbol of new babies, which softens the clinical tone. The subjects listed for the work point to New York State prenatal care in the 1930s, when maternal health was a major concern and free or low-cost clinics were expanding. The Works Progress Administration, later renamed the Work Projects Administration, employed artists to produce posters like this one for government agencies and community services during the Depression.
| Created / published | 1936 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Date stamped on verso: Sep 2 1938. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). · Federal Art Project sponsor. |
| Subjects | Prenatal care--New York (State)--1930-1940. Women--Health & welfare--New York (State)--1930-1940. Storks--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 2,781 × 4,096 px · prints to 9 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 813_Expecting_Get_the_right_1936 |
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