Interesting public health posters from the 1920s

hot_pastrami • Sep 11, 2003 1:47 pm

I haven't got the words. This hygiene poster is an image from the Social Welfare History Archives, stored on the University of Minnesota server. Some of these are funny, others disturbing:

Booby trap
She may be a bag of trouble
Inherited Syphillis
Joe cared for his lathe so tenderly...

..expolore, and you'll find many others. Post your favorite!

Undertoad • Sep 11, 2003 2:19 pm

Holy crap! What a find, hp!

Pie • Sep 11, 2003 5:15 pm

Here's my favorite so far:

Undertoad • Sep 11, 2003 5:42 pm

They truly were the "greatest generation".

From the rest of the series, it looks like "pro" means "prophilaxis" - looks like they encouraged a routine shot of penicillin after every visit with random hussies.

xoxoxoBruce • Sep 11, 2003 7:31 pm

Everlasting Blort, Pas?

arz • Sep 11, 2003 7:42 pm

How quaint. I notice the important things to do to prvent jacking off are group activities. Sports. Work. No solitary reading allowed, apparently.

So, is that how the circle jerk was invented?

Dagney • Sep 11, 2003 7:58 pm

And look what we came across whilst digging this evening! :)

xoxoxoBruce • Sep 11, 2003 8:00 pm

You're bad, Dag.:haha: :haha: :haha:

Dagney • Sep 11, 2003 8:01 pm

I couldn't help it! I was possessed by the demons of Photoshop!

Besides, he looks good in sepia tones :)

Griff • Sep 11, 2003 8:07 pm

There is no end to the madness on that site! ;)

elSicomoro • Sep 12, 2003 4:17 am

zippyt • Sep 12, 2003 10:34 pm

those posters are cool !!! I don't have any of those buuuut I do have a book published in 1916 called ,

xoxoxoBruce • Sep 12, 2003 10:57 pm

Throw it away, zip. Women aren't the same.:D

Leus • Sep 15, 2003 4:17 pm

Originally posted by hot_pastrami

It's funny to see some
kind of stuff that America
had given birth to.
Sexual-educative haiku.

OnyxCougar • Sep 15, 2003 4:44 pm

[COLOR=indigo]What does this have to do with a bird?[/COLOR]

Elspode • Sep 15, 2003 6:39 pm

I think the subtext is something like "Don't let this innocent young lady get her bird all infected with gonorrhea."

I'm sorry...that was disgusting. But you *did* ask.

xoxoxoBruce • Sep 15, 2003 8:55 pm

Or something to do with Red Breasts, Robin.:rolleyes:

Bitmap • Sep 16, 2003 11:03 am

IS this a man or a woman?.... the anatomy suggests a woman where are the breasts?

Bitmap • Sep 16, 2003 11:26 am

I'm supprised they had that nation wide stats durring the Civil War.

xoxoxoBruce • Sep 16, 2003 7:52 pm

I'm supprised they had that nation wide stats durring the Civil War.

I think it just refers to the army.:)

wolf • Sep 17, 2003 1:50 am

Just to kind of speculate ...

Given the difference in styles of warfare amongst the conflicts specified on that graph ... the doughboys spent most of their time in the trenches, right? If you're not on leave/liberty, or there aren't the customary batch of camp following wenches, that limits one's exposure to those nasty little organisms.

xoxoxoBruce • Sep 17, 2003 4:34 am

During WW I millions of people were dying from the flu so off base movement was severely restricted.;)

bmgb • Sep 20, 2003 2:30 am

And here they are again... sort of.

Elspode • Sep 20, 2003 2:44 pm

Those were, dare I say...inspiring!

You know, *we* could do stuff like that here at The Cellar. Or maybe we could just have another logo contest...

Elspode • Sep 20, 2003 3:10 pm

Thus inspired by the link posted by bmbg, I took the liberty of surfing up a WWII poster archive site. Here's my before and after version. Maybe it could inspire some other photo-mangling fun.

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