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Jeune fille malade Bonnington sic pinxt. ; S.W. Reynolds sculpt

Jeune fille malade Bonnington sic pinxt. ; S.W. Reynolds sculpt

Print shows a young woman sitting up in a canopy bed with an elderly nun seated in a chair near the foot of the bed, and another young woman standing on the far side of the bed with her right hand over her mout... More

Women, girls - rest and information go to the YWCA blue triangle house opposite Union Station

Women, girls - rest and information go to the YWCA blue triangle house...

Poster showing a house and a large blue triangle. Public domain scan of American poster, advertisement, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Exchanging news - two of the smaller members of the Greek colony which has been set up for repatriates from the Caucasus outside Salonica The boy lost one of his arms and legs in a railway accident. He is a great favorite in the camp.

Exchanging news - two of the smaller members of the Greek colony which...

Public domain photograph of military personnel, army, militia, infantry, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A medicine man curing a patient / Capt. Eastman, U.S.A. del. ; C. Schuessele lith.

A medicine man curing a patient / Capt. Eastman, U.S.A. del. ; C. Schu...

Public domain scan of American 19th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Hasköy Hospital for Women] / Constantinople, Abdullah Frères.

[Hasköy Hospital for Women] / Constantinople, Abdullah Frères.

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 3. No. 546. In album: Hasköy Hospital for Women, fountains, mausoleums, and other buildings and views, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire.... More

Shiro, Utagawa Kunisada, Japan - Public domain  drawing

Shiro, Utagawa Kunisada, Japan - Public domain drawing

Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. From the series: Ukiyo goshiki awase : Set of five colors of the floating world. Format: vertical Ob... More

Held at Ellis Island--undesirable emigrants to be taken back by steamship company that brought them

Held at Ellis Island--undesirable emigrants to be taken back by steams...

Three women on bench. Halftone reproduction of photograph in Quarantine sketches, a pamphlet published as advertising by the Maltine Co.

Institute for the Blind, Indianapolis, Ind

Institute for the Blind, Indianapolis, Ind

"1955" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 017317. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Western Pennsylvania Institute for the Blind, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania

Western Pennsylvania Institute for the Blind, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania

Picryl description: Public domain image of a victorian era building, victorian house, 19th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

The only chiropedist in Salonica has his shop on the street corner He is a Greek but as will be noticed by the sign he understands a number of languages including Turkish and Yiddish.

The only chiropedist in Salonica has his shop on the street corner He ...

Filed in: Greece Industries & Occupations. No. RC-4742. Forms part of: American National Red Cross photograph collection.

Be wise Don't play with firecrackers : Department of Health, New York City.

Be wise Don't play with firecrackers : Department of Health, New York ...

Poster warning of the dangers of playing with firecrackers, showing the face of a boy with an injured eye. Date stamped on verso: Apr 16 1937. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress... More

Velocipede hair oil - highly perfumed by T.P. Spencer & Co., New York

Velocipede hair oil - highly perfumed by T.P. Spencer & Co., New York

Print of a patent medicine advertisement showing a woman riding a bicycle. Copyright 1869 by T.P. Spencer & Co.

[African Americans standing outside brick building "Frien[dship] Phar[macy]" and "Post Office", with horse-drawn carriage in street]

[African Americans standing outside brick building "Frien[dship] Phar[...

In album (disbound): Negro life in Georgia, U.S.A., compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 4, no. 345. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in ... More

[African American man (doctor?), carrying small leather bag, standing on steps to residence, horse-drawn carriage in the foreground]

[African American man (doctor?), carrying small leather bag, standing ...

In album (disbound): Negro life in Georgia, U.S.A., compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 4, no. 340. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in ... More

[Exterior view of the surgical hall of the Hasköy Hospital for Women] / Constantinople, Abdullah Frères.

[Exterior view of the surgical hall of the Hasköy Hospital for Women] ...

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 8. No. 547. In album: Hasköy Hospital for Women, fountains, mausoleums, and other buildings and views, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire.... More

Hada kurabe hana no shōbuyu kurabe (hoso?), koshi yuki no ya

Hada kurabe hana no shōbuyu kurabe (hoso?), koshi yuki no ya

Print shows a scene in a women's public bath, with many women bathing, some washing children, and a small group are fighting among themselves. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-spo... More

Institute for the blind, Saginaw, Mich.

Institute for the blind, Saginaw, Mich.

Public domain photograph - historical image of Michigan, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Institute for the Blind, Indianapolis, Ind.

Institute for the Blind, Indianapolis, Ind.

Public domain photograph - historical image of Indiana, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

American Red Cross relief work in the Mississippi Valley flood

American Red Cross relief work in the Mississippi Valley flood

African American refugees at Greenville, Miss., lined up for vaccination. National Photo Company Collection (Library of Congress). Photograph by the American Red Cross.

Congenital syphilis is preventable If syphilitic mothers will take adequate treatment during the last five months of pregnancy : New York State Department of Health / / Dux.

Congenital syphilis is preventable If syphilitic mothers will take ade...

Poster for New York State Department of Health promoting proper treatment for syphilis for pregnant women, showing woman holding a baby. Date stamped on verso: Jun 28 1939. Work Projects Administration Poster C... More

Obychai Sredneaziiattsev. Obriezanie (batga [sic] buri)

Obychai Sredneaziiattsev. Obriezanie (batga [sic] buri)

Photograph shows a group of men seated on the ground near a small boy who is being circumcised. Illus. in: Turkestanskīĭ alʹbom, chastʹ ėtnograficheskai︠a︡..., 1871-1872, part 2, vol. 1, pl. 71. "Batga [sic] ... More

Nurse the baby Your protection against trouble : Inform yourself through the Health Bureau publications and consult your doctor / / K.

Nurse the baby Your protection against trouble : Inform yourself throu...

Poster promoting breast feeding and proper child care, showing mother nursing baby. Date stamped on verso: Sep 2 1938. Forms part of: Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Exhib... More

[Tuberculosis ward of the Hasköy Hospital for Women] / Constantinople, Abdullah Frères.

[Tuberculosis ward of the Hasköy Hospital for Women] / Constantinople,...

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 7. No. 550. In album: Hasköy Hospital for Women, fountains, mausoleums, and other buildings and views, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire.... More

Orphans' homestead, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania The building, now newly roofed and adapted as far as practicable for its present use, was occupied by General Howard as his head quarters at the battle of Gettysburg. It stands on Cemetery Hill, within a few rods of the vertex of the angle formed by our army in the battle. It is used until a more commodious and suitable structure can be erected to shelter its present fatherless inmates, with many other soldiers' orphans in different States of the Union, awaiting admission to the institution / / Photographed by C.J. Tyson, Gettysburg.

Orphans' homestead, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania The building, now newly r...

Photograph shows Gen. Samuel W. Crawford, Gen. Andrew Porter, Gov. John W. Geary, and Gen. Ulysses S. Grant outside the orphanage and flanked by girls on the left and boys on the right. Gift; James Monroe Memo... More

I.O.O.F., W. and O. Home showing new chapple [sic] and hospital buildings, Corsicana, Texas, June 10, 1914

I.O.O.F., W. and O. Home showing new chapple [sic] and hospital buildi...

J136498 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Jno. J. Johnson; June 22, 1914; DLC/PP-1914:44812. Copyright claimant's address: Dallas, Texas.

Faites préserver vos enfants contre la tuberculose par le vaccin B.C.G.

Faites préserver vos enfants contre la tuberculose par le vaccin B.C.G...

A nurse holding a young child. Public domain photograph of nurses, hospital, medical care, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Save the Serbians from cholera / Boardman Robinson.

Save the Serbians from cholera / Boardman Robinson.

Poster showing a figure of Death reaching down from storm clouds to menace a devastated populace.

Is your child vaccinated Vaccination prevents smallpox - Chicago Department of Health.

Is your child vaccinated Vaccination prevents smallpox - Chicago Depar...

Poster for Chicago Department of Health showing large red question mark. Date stamped on verso: Mar 20 1941. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress).

Siloam, Greene County, Ga. (vicinity). Midwife going on a call, carrying her kit

Siloam, Greene County, Ga. (vicinity). Midwife going on a call, carryi...

Photograph shows African American woman walking on dirt road. Corresponding negative no. LC-USF34-46571-E Forms part of: FSA/OWI Collection (Library of Congress). LOT 1548.

Unfair to babies A helpless infant can't go on strike : It depends on your care.

Unfair to babies A helpless infant can't go on strike : It depends on ...

Poster promoting proper child care, showing a baby picketing. Date stamped on verso: Nov 8 1938. Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los Angeles : Wheatly Press, c1987, no. 297 Forms part of: Work Project... More

[Hasköy Hospital for Women] / Constantinople, Abdullah Frères.

[Hasköy Hospital for Women] / Constantinople, Abdullah Frères.

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 3. No. 546. In album: Hasköy Hospital for Women, fountains, mausoleums, and other buildings and views, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire.... More

[Tuberculosis ward of the Hasköy Hospital for Women] / Constantinople, Abdullah Frères.

[Tuberculosis ward of the Hasköy Hospital for Women] / Constantinople,...

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 7. No. 550. In album: Hasköy Hospital for Women, fountains, mausoleums, and other buildings and views, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire.... More

Lesson in the care of children--elementary school, Cleveland, Ohio

Lesson in the care of children--elementary school, Cleveland, Ohio

Woman with five girls in lesson of bathing baby. Goldsberry Collection of open-air school photographs.

Deaf and Dumb Asylum, Little Rock, Ark

Deaf and Dumb Asylum, Little Rock, Ark

"G 6777" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 071742. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Um einen Besatzungsoldaten gut zu ernähren, müssen vier deutsche Kinder hungern! / KA.

Um einen Besatzungsoldaten gut zu ernähren, müssen vier deutsche Kinde...

Poster shows four starving children at the feet of a large, monstrous looking soldier. Text: To feed one occupying soldier well, four German children must go hungry. Forms part of: Rehse-Archiv für Zeitgeschich... More

The Jr. Red Cross worker calls on a mother of one of the babies who are brought to the clinic in Athens

The Jr. Red Cross worker calls on a mother of one of the babies who ar...

Filed in: Greece Children Clinics. No. RC-10436. On mount: Dispensaries, Greece. Forms part of: American National Red Cross photograph collection.

The great crippler - syphilis / JD.

The great crippler - syphilis / JD.

Poster warning of the dangers to children from syphilis, showing a young girl standing with a crutch. Produced for the town of Hempstead Health Dept. Date stamped on verso: Dec 1 1937. Work Projects Administrat... More

Be clean in everything that concerns your baby

Be clean in everything that concerns your baby

Poster promoting cleanliness and proper child care, showing swan with cygnet. Date stamped on verso: Jul 18 1939. Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los Angeles : Wheatly Press, c1987, no. 298 Forms part... More

[A group photograph of the doctors of the (Hasköy) Hospital for Women] / Constantinople, Abdullah Frères.

[A group photograph of the doctors of the (Hasköy) Hospital for Women]...

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 6. No. 558. In album: Hasköy Hospital for Women, fountains, mausoleums, and other buildings and views, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire.... More

Dr. J.N. Keeler's infant cordial and carminative / Lith. of Thomas Sinclair, Philadelphia.

Dr. J.N. Keeler's infant cordial and carminative / Lith. of Thomas Sin...

Patent medicine label showing woman giving patent medicine to baby. No. 364.

B.L. Fahnestock's vermifuge / designed and engraved by Toppan Carpenter & Co., New York.

B.L. Fahnestock's vermifuge / designed and engraved by Toppan Carpente...

Patent medicine label illustrated with head-and-shoulders portrait of B.L. Fahnestock and woman giving patent medicine to baby. No. 23(?).

Ayer's cathartic pills (The country doctor)

Ayer's cathartic pills (The country doctor)

Trade card showing black man with two black children. Copyright by J.C. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Mass.

Institution for the Blind, Columbus, O[hio]

Institution for the Blind, Columbus, O[hio]

Picryl description: Public domain image of park architecture, palace, chateau, open space, 18th, and 19th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

The health of the child is the power of the nation Children's year, April 1918 - April 1919 / / F. Luis Mora.

The health of the child is the power of the nation Children's year, Ap...

Poster showing a group of happy children on a hill. United States Children's Bureau and Woman's Committee of the Council of National Defense. Committee on Public Information, Division of Pictorial Publicity.

No creature in this world so ignorantly nurtured as the average baby Advice at your health bureau.

No creature in this world so ignorantly nurtured as the average baby A...

Poster promoting proper health care for children, showing a girl with a fawn. Date stamped on verso: Dec 23 1938. Forms part of: Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Exhibited:... More

Be clean in everything that concerns your baby

Be clean in everything that concerns your baby

Poster promoting cleanliness and proper child care, showing swan with cygnet. Date stamped on verso: Jul 18 1939. Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los Angeles : Wheatly Press, c1987, no. 298 Forms part... More

Lucky for you! - A poster with a hand holding a breast

Lucky for you! - A poster with a hand holding a breast

Poster showing hand holding slide in Pap test. Public domain scan of American poster, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Exterior view of the surgical hall of the Hasköy Hospital for Women] / Constantinople, Abdullah Frères.

[Exterior view of the surgical hall of the Hasköy Hospital for Women] ...

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 8. No. 547. In album: Hasköy Hospital for Women, fountains, mausoleums, and other buildings and views, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire.... More

Onna yu, print by Kiyonaga Torii

Onna yu, print by Kiyonaga Torii

Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. Tanrokudo modern reprint (Showa) probably Takamizawa product. Printed on a single sheet. Purchase; H... More

Zaravshanskii okrug. G. Samarkand. Gorodskaia bol'nitsa dlia tuzemtsev

Zaravshanskii okrug. G. Samarkand. Gorodskaia bol'nitsa dlia tuzemtsev

Illus. in: Turkestanskīĭ alʹbom, chastʹ ėtnograficheskai︠a︡..., 1871-1872, part 2, vol. 2, pl. 146.

Obychai Sredneaziiattsev. Zachityvanie bol'nago

Obychai Sredneaziiattsev. Zachityvanie bol'nago

Illus. in: Turkestanskīĭ alʹbom, chastʹ ėtnograficheskai︠a︡..., 1871-1872, part 2, vol. 1, pl. 71.

Edward S. Curtis - [Apache medicine cap and fetish]

Edward S. Curtis - [Apache medicine cap and fetish]

H104254 U.S. Copyright Office. Edward S. Curtis Collection. Curtis no. 1945-07.. Published in: The North American Indian / Edward S. Curtis. [Seattle, Wash.] : Edward S. Curtis, 1907-30, suppl., v. 1, p. 40.

Chinese pharmacy, Los Angeles, California

Chinese pharmacy, Los Angeles, California

Photolithograph shows interior of Chinese American pharmacy. Exhibited as a digital copy in: "Not an Ostrich: And Other Images from America's Library" at the Annenberg Space for Photography, 2018; Detroit Pub... More

[New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital]

[New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital]

Nurses, doctors, and others with children in beds. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

The ARC by dint of sheer persistence, succeeded in establishing feeding, medical and sanitary centers in the heart of the mountains, where many refugees had wondered [i.e. wandered] Even the Greek government itself had not reached these people for months after the R.C. had catalogued and was feeding them. The above picture shows the baby milk feeding station at the village of Thimiana, on the Isle of Chios, which is the center of that section of the island.

The ARC by dint of sheer persistence, succeeded in establishing feedin...

Filed in: Greece Refugees. No. RC 33878. On mount: Fires, Smyrna, 1922; Clinics, Chios. Forms part of: American National Red Cross photograph collection.

Unfair to babies A helpless infant can't go on strike : It depends on your care.

Unfair to babies A helpless infant can't go on strike : It depends on ...

Poster promoting proper child care, showing a baby picketing. Date stamped on verso: Nov 8 1938. Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los Angeles : Wheatly Press, c1987, no. 297 Forms part of: Work Project... More

Onnna yu, print by Kiyonaga Torii

Onnna yu, print by Kiyonaga Torii

Print shows a scene in a public bathhouse where several women are bathing. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Diptych matted in 2 section... More

Deaf and Dumb Asylum, Jacksonville, Ill.

Deaf and Dumb Asylum, Jacksonville, Ill.

Picryl description: Public domain image of park architecture, palace, chateau, open space, 18th, and 19th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Institution for the Blind, Columbus, Ohio

Institution for the Blind, Columbus, Ohio

"G 5814" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 071354. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Like little French soldiers. Some of the children being moved from Turkey to Greece to the American Near East Relief

Like little French soldiers. Some of the children being moved from Tur...

Orphaned children wearing light blue uniforms in Constantinople. George Grantham Bain Collection. Photoprint by Near East Relief.

Six American sub-chasers in the Greek Islands were at the disposal of American Red Cross workers in Salonica This cooperation between the American Navy and Red Cross facilitated relief work among the destitute island folk. On the wharf, beside "sub-chaser 128" are some Greek boys and men who have been brought into Salonika [sic] to the Red Cross hospital. The British battleship can be seen in the back-ground.

Six American sub-chasers in the Greek Islands were at the disposal of ...

Filed in: Greece Children. No. 09511. Forms part of: American National Red Cross photograph collection.

The milk stations were by far the most important work of the Red Cross, as they were entirely responsible for saving the lives of thousands of babies At one milk station alone on [sic] the dangerous spring months, the total fed on the whole island reached as high at times as 3000.

The milk stations were by far the most important work of the Red Cross...

Public domain photograph of train station, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

In "barbers' row." There are forty of these crude, improvised barber's chairs in a row along the quay in the Piraeus, the sea port of Athens This victim is being shaved. Is [i.e. when] his hair were being cut the wind would blow his shorn locks down the quay.

In "barbers' row." There are forty of these crude, improvised barber's...

Filed in: Greece Industries & Occupations. No. RC-8724. On mount: Fires, Smyrna, 1922; Refugees, Greece. Forms part of: American National Red Cross photograph collection.

Diphtheria strikes unprotected children Protect your child with toxoid--Toxoid prevents diptheria : Chicago Department of Health.

Diphtheria strikes unprotected children Protect your child with toxoid...

Poster for the Chicago Department of Health, showing a flying disc "Toxoid" preventing a lightning bolt from striking a child.

Tuberculosis Don't kiss me! : Your kiss of affection - the germ of infection / / JD.

Tuberculosis Don't kiss me! : Your kiss of affection - the germ of inf...

Poster about tuberculosis in children and methods of transmission, showing a child wearing a bib. Town of Hempstead, W.H. Runcie M.D. Health Officer. Date stamped on verso: May 14 1941. Work Projects Administra... More

Obychai Sredneaziiattsev. Obriezanie (batga [sic] buri)

Obychai Sredneaziiattsev. Obriezanie (batga [sic] buri)

Photograph shows a group of men seated on the ground near a small boy who is being circumcised. Illus. in: Turkestanskīĭ alʹbom, chastʹ ėtnograficheskai︠a︡..., 1871-1872, part 2, vol. 1, pl. 71. "Batga [sic] ... More

[African American man (doctor?), carrying small leather bag, standing on steps to residence, horse-drawn carriage in the foreground]

[African American man (doctor?), carrying small leather bag, standing ...

In album (disbound): Negro life in Georgia, U.S.A., compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 4, no. 340. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in ... More

Hada kurabe hana no shōbuyu kurabe (hoso?), koshi yuki no ya

Hada kurabe hana no shōbuyu kurabe (hoso?), koshi yuki no ya

Print shows a scene in a women's public bath, with many women bathing, some washing children, and a small group are fighting among themselves. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-spo... More

Hada kurabe hana no shōbuyu kurabe (hoso?), koshi yuki no ya

Hada kurabe hana no shōbuyu kurabe (hoso?), koshi yuki no ya

Print shows a scene in a women's public bath, with many women bathing, some washing children, and a small group are fighting among themselves. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-spo... More

Yu no ka - Public domain portrait painting

Yu no ka - Public domain portrait painting

Print shows a young woman, full-length, facing right, standing on rocks, washing her feet above a stream or pool among falling maple leaves. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-spons... More

"For the Negro, intelligent guides to family planning are a profoundly important ingredient in his quest for security and a decent life." Martin Luther King, Jr.

"For the Negro, intelligent guides to family planning are a profoundly...

Poster showing head-and-shoulders portrait of Martin Luther King, facing right.

Dobbins' medicated toilet soap / LW ; J. Haehnlen, Philadelphia.

Dobbins' medicated toilet soap / LW ; J. Haehnlen, Philadelphia.

Poster showing four well dressed women in a parlor, one of them is holding open a box of "Dobbins' Medicated Toilet Soap." Two of the women are wearing coats and gloves as though they just arrived, the fourth w... More

Zaravshanskii okrug. G. Samarkand. Okurivanie bol'nago

Zaravshanskii okrug. G. Samarkand. Okurivanie bol'nago

Photograph shows a man kneeling in prayer and another man holds an inscense burner near him. Illus. in: Turkestanskīĭ alʹbom, chastʹ ėtnograficheskai︠a︡..., 1871-1872, part 2, vol. 2, pl. 144.

Hada kurabe hana no shōbuyu kurabe (hoso?), koshi yuki no ya

Hada kurabe hana no shōbuyu kurabe (hoso?), koshi yuki no ya

Print shows a scene in a women's public bath, with many women bathing, some washing children, and a small group are fighting among themselves. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-spo... More

Hada kurabe hana no shōbuyu kurabe (hoso?), koshi yuki no ya

Hada kurabe hana no shōbuyu kurabe (hoso?), koshi yuki no ya

Print shows a scene in a women's public bath, with many women bathing, some washing children, and a small group are fighting among themselves. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-spo... More

Goyu, Katsushika Hokusai - Public domain  drawing

Goyu, Katsushika Hokusai - Public domain drawing

Print shows a woman, possibly a courtesan, arranging her hair in front of a mirror. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. From the series:... More

Puck magazine cover - "Our mutual friend" / J. Keppler.

Puck magazine cover - "Our mutual friend" / J. Keppler.

Illustration shows a man labeled "Doctor" and a man labeled "Sexton" standing in the street outside a "Confectionery", with a large colorful candy stick between them, it is labeled "Chrome Green, Chalk, Red Lea... More

Asylum for the Blind, Jacksonville, Ill.

Asylum for the Blind, Jacksonville, Ill.

Picryl description: Public domain image of park architecture, palace, chateau, open space, 18th, and 19th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Deaf and Dumb Asylum, Little Rock, Ark.

Deaf and Dumb Asylum, Little Rock, Ark.

Public domain photograph - historical image of Arkansas, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Two orphans with Near East Relief workers and sailors on board the U.S. cruiser Pittsburgh as guests of the officers for a Christmas party in the Bosporus]

[Two orphans with Near East Relief workers and sailors on board the U....

George Grantham Bain Collection. No. 7060. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The physician of the x-rays / Ivo Saliger.

The physician of the x-rays / Ivo Saliger.

Print showing a physician using x-rays to repel Death, personified as a skeleton wearing a shroud, as it approaches a young woman on an operating table. Inscribed in pencil: Copyright.

A class in sewing - is a feature of the child welfare work in the old city of Salonica which the Greek authorities are conducting in cooperation with the American Red Cross The Americans are carrying out an active child welfare campaign in Europe.

A class in sewing - is a feature of the child welfare work in the old ...

Filed in: Greece Children General. No. RC-8662. Forms part of: American National Red Cross photograph collection.

The bread boy - at the camp at Salonica for Greeks who have been brought back from the Caucasus for the purpose of colonizing their country's rewon province of Thrace They have been delayed at Salonica where they landed and their plight has become so bad that the American Red Cross and other relief agencies have stepped in to stem the misery and death.

The bread boy - at the camp at Salonica for Greeks who have been broug...

Filed in: Greece Children General. No. RC-8724. Forms part of: American National Red Cross photograph collection.

Five thousand refugees have received soup daily at Chios since January Besides the bread given these people, the soup constituted their only food. Thousands owe their lives to this distribution. The building employed is an old Turkish mosque. The two figures in the foreground are Circassions [i.e. Circassians].

Five thousand refugees have received soup daily at Chios since January...

Filed in: Greece Refugees. No. RC 33887. On mount: Fires, Smyrna, 1922; Refugees, Feeding, Chios. Forms part of: American National Red Cross photograph collection.

John is not really dull - he may only need his eyes examined

John is not really dull - he may only need his eyes examined

Poster recommending eye examinations for children having difficulty learning, showing a woman holding an eye chart(?) in front of a boy reading a book.

March on to health Get your test now : City of Chicago Municipal Tuburculosis Sanitarium.

March on to health Get your test now : City of Chicago Municipal Tubur...

Poster showing boys and girls marching. Date stamped on verso: Jan 13 1939. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress).

Open air Tuberculosis wards, Liverpool, Leasowe, England

Open air Tuberculosis wards, Liverpool, Leasowe, England

Photographer's address: 30 Bold St., Liverpool. On verso: "Educational work is conducted there." Goldsberry Collection of open-air school photographs. Purchase; 1926.

Open air Tuberculosis wards, Liverpool, Leasowe, England

Open air Tuberculosis wards, Liverpool, Leasowe, England

Photographer's address: 30 Bold St., Liverpool. On verso: "Educational work is conducted there." Goldsberry Collection of open-air school photographs. Purchase; 1926.

Hada kurabe hana no shōbuyu kurabe (hoso?), koshi yuki no ya

Hada kurabe hana no shōbuyu kurabe (hoso?), koshi yuki no ya

Print shows a scene in a women's public bath, with many women bathing, some washing children, and a small group are fighting among themselves. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-spo... More

Expecting? Get the right advice from the right sources, your doctor or health bureau

Expecting? Get the right advice from the right sources, your doctor or...

Poster promoting proper health care for pregnant women, showing a stork. Date stamped on verso: Sep 2 1938. Forms part of: Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Exhibited: "Work... More

[Three barracks in the Hasköy Hospital for Women] / Constantinople, Abdullah Frères.

[Three barracks in the Hasköy Hospital for Women] / Constantinople, Ab...

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 5. No. 549. In album: Hasköy Hospital for Women, fountains, mausoleums, and other buildings and views, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire.... More

Tooth brush drill at Franklin School, Chicago

Tooth brush drill at Franklin School, Chicago

Photo shows children brushing their teeth at a long sink. Public domain photograph - city, downtown, New York, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Edward S. Curtis - Grinding medicine--Zuni

Edward S. Curtis - Grinding medicine--Zuni

Zuni man lying on blanket grinding medicine. H34034 U.S. Copyright Office. Curtis no. 109. Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress). Published in: The North American Indian / Edward S. C... More

American aid for Greek children - one of the babies clinics established by the American Red Cross in Athens Greek mothers were quick to take advantage of the medical assistance offered by the Americans for their children. The mothers themselves were instructed in pediatrics and better hygiene.

American aid for Greek children - one of the babies clinics establishe...

Filed in: Greece Children Clinics. No. 07956. Forms part of: American National Red Cross photograph collection.

Balanced diet for the expectant mother Inquire at the Health Bureau.

Balanced diet for the expectant mother Inquire at the Health Bureau.

Poster promoting proper diet and prenatal care for pregnant women, showing a bowl of fruit. Date stamped on verso: Feb 2 1939. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). More informat... More

Good grades and good health go together City of Chicago Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium :PGet your test now.

Good grades and good health go together City of Chicago Municipal Tube...

City of Chicago Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium poster promoting tuberculosis testing and that good grades and good health compliment each other, showing a girl roller skating. Date stamped on verso: Jan 13 1... More

Clean air is a product of the United States Environmental Protection Agency

Clean air is a product of the United States Environmental Protection A...

Poster showing two children and cattails in foreground and mountain in background.

[African Americans standing outside brick building "Frien[dship] Phar[macy]" and "Post Office", with horse-drawn carriage in street]

[African Americans standing outside brick building "Frien[dship] Phar[...

In album (disbound): Negro life in Georgia, U.S.A., compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 4, no. 345. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in ... More

Dobbins' medicated toilet soap / LW ; J. Haehnlen, Philadelphia.

Dobbins' medicated toilet soap / LW ; J. Haehnlen, Philadelphia.

Poster showing four well dressed women in a parlor, one of them is holding open a box of "Dobbins' Medicated Toilet Soap." Two of the women are wearing coats and gloves as though they just arrived, the fourth w... More

No creature in this world so ignorantly nurtured as the average baby Advice at your health bureau.

No creature in this world so ignorantly nurtured as the average baby A...

Poster promoting proper health care for children, showing a girl with a fawn. Date stamped on verso: Dec 23 1938. Forms part of: Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Exhibited:... More

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