Fight in the Crusade Against TB

ID: 5414 ~ Source: Library of Congress - Federal Art Project, Sponsor. Take part in America's crusade against tuberculosis Cook County Public Health Unit. Chicago Illinois, 1940. [Chicago: Illinois WPA Art Project] Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/98508942/.
~ Creator: WPA

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Posters produced by the WPA were an essential tool used by the US government to promote certain attitudes in the general population, including unification against medical threats.

This file appears in: Edgecliff Sanitarium: The White Plague in Spokane

Edgecliff Sanitarium: The White Plague in Spokane

By RaeAnn Anderson

Tuberculosis was the most devastating disease of the 19th and 20th centuries. Isolation was the most effective public health intervention.