More women die of cancer than do men 70 percent of the 35000 women who die annually o – Antique Poster Print
(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: More women die of cancer than do men 70 percent of the 35000 women who die annually o, preserved in this vintage poster. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Few health posters of the 1930s put a number on the danger as bluntly as this one, which tells viewers that more women than men die of cancer and cites about 35,000 women dying each year. The silkscreen print was produced under the Works Progress Administration's poster program, and its credit lines name the U.S. Public Health Service, which worked with the American Society for the Control of Cancer on the campaign. The record also lists the Federal theater Project as a sponsor, a reminder that New Deal arts agencies often shared resources. Public health messaging of the period aimed to reach people who might not read medical pamphlets, and posters like this one carried that work into public spaces.
| Created / published | 1936 |
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| Medium | 1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Date stamped on verso: Sep 2 1938. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). U.S. Public Health Service in cooperation with the American Society for Control of Cancer. Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los Angeles : Wheatly Press c1987 no. 207 · Federal Theatre Project (New York N.Y.) sponsor. |
| Subjects | United States. Public Health Service--Public relations--1930-1940. Cancer--1930-1940. Women--New York (State)--New York--1930-1940. Health care--New York (State)--New York--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 1,208 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 297_More_women_die_of_cance_1936 |
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