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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

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.

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

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

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

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

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).

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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).

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

Glycerine tooth paste -- Gellé Frères perfumers 6, Avenue de l'Opéra, 6, Paris / J. Chéret.

Glycerine tooth paste -- Gellé Frères perfumers 6, Avenue de l'Opéra, ...

Poster showing a woman holding a toothbrush and a container of toothpaste. Caption continues: Always used once used - Process of Eug. Devers chemist laureate - Gold medal Paris 1878. Signed on stone, lower left .

New Jersey must fight on that these shall not have died in vain - that these shall not be born in vain

New Jersey must fight on that these shall not have died in vain - that...

New Jersey Dept. of Health poster showing soldiers rushing into battle and a woman holding an infant, a child standing next to her, and the faces of infants drawn in the background. Copyright by Department of H... More

Their health depends on you Destroy syphilis / / C.Y. Bienvenu.

Their health depends on you Destroy syphilis / / C.Y. Bienvenu.

Poster promoting eradication of syphilis, showing children playing and reading. Public domain scan of printed advertisement, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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.

Protect her from tuberculosis Consultation of your doctor or clinic means prevention.

Protect her from tuberculosis Consultation of your doctor or clinic me...

Poster promoting regular medical checkups for prevention of tuberculosis, showing woman holding a flower.

Protect her from tuberculosis Consultation of your doctor or clinic means prevention.

Protect her from tuberculosis Consultation of your doctor or clinic me...

Poster promoting regular medical checkups for prevention of tuberculosis, showing woman holding a flower.

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

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

Forget me not--Help save the Belgian babies / Nuyttens.

Forget me not--Help save the Belgian babies / Nuyttens.

Poster showing a small girl sitting amid ruins, holding a bouquet of forget-me-nots.

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

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

Lucky for you! - A picture of a person holding a paintbrush

Lucky for you! - A picture of a person holding a paintbrush

Poster showing hand holding slide in Pap test. Public domain photograph of food advertisement, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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

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

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