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From the American Memories collection By the People, For the People: Posters from the WPA, 1936-1943.



"The By the People, For the People: Posters from the WPA, 1936-1943 collection consists of 908 boldly colored and graphically diverse original posters produced from 1936 to 1943 as part of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal. Of the 2,000 WPA posters known to exist, the Library of Congress's collection of more than 900 is the largest. These striking silkscreen, lithograph, and woodcut posters were designed to publicize health and safety programs; cultural programs including art exhibitions, theatrical, and musical performances; travel and tourism; educational programs; and community activities in seventeen states and the District of Columbia. The posters were made possible by one of the first U.S. Government programs to support the arts and were added to the Library's holdings in the 1940s."

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From the poster's information page...

Stamp out syphilis and gonorrhea : Have you had your blood test and examination : Go to your doctor or Dept. of Health.

CREATED/PUBLISHED
NYC : Works Progress Administration Federal Art Project, [between 1936 and 1938]

SUMMARY
Poster encouraging blood testing and examinations to identify persons with syphilis and gonorrhea, showing a man pointing at the viewer.

NOTES
Date stamped on verso: Feb 9 1938.

Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress).

Bureau of Social Hygiene, 51 Stuyvesant Place, S.I.

SUBJECTS
Syphilis--New York (State)--New York--1930-1940.
Gonorrhea--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.
Posters--1930-1940.
Screen prints--Color--1930-1940.

MEDIUM
1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen, color.

CALL NUMBER
POS - WPA - NY .01 .S73, no. 1

REPRODUCTION NUMBER
LC-USZC2-1119 DLC (color film copy slide)

REPOSITORY
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

DIGITAL ID

(color film copy slide) cph 3b49019 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b49019


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