Visual Culture and Health Posters
- Title:
- She May Be a Bag of Trouble
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- Description:
- This 1940 poster uses the same technique of featuring the heavily made-up, cigarette-smoking woman as a venereal disease carrier. Appealing to the soldier's interest in the eye-catching woman, the headline playfully warns "She may be. . . a bag of TROUBLE." The contrasts in color, font size, and capitalization draw the viewer's attention to the word "trouble" in an attempt to create an association between the word and the image. Below the warning, the inclusion of the words "syphilis-gonorrhea" further suggest to the viewer that this is not an appealing woman but a treacherous menace.
- Number of Image Pages:
- 1 (670,508 Bytes)
- Date:
- 1940
- Creator:
- Unknown Organization
- Source:
- Original Repository: The History of Medicine Division. Prints and Photographs Collection.
- This image may also be accessed from the Images from the History of Medicine (IHM).
- URL: http://wwwihm.nlm.nih.gov/
- IHM Order Number: A025561
- Publisher:
- Unknown Organization
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- Courtesy of the National Library of Medicine, History of Medicine Division.
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- Subject:
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- Medical Subject Headings (MeSH):
- Sexually Transmitted Diseases
- Women
- Public Health
- Visual Culture and Public Health Keywords:
- Venereal Disease
- Exhibit Category:
- Infectious Disease
- Relation:
Juke Joint Sniper (1942)
- Easy to Get. . . (1940)
- Venereal Disease Covers the Earth (1940)
- She May Look Clean--But [ca. 1940]
- Unique Identifier:
- VCBBCB
- Document Type:
- Posters
- Slides (photographs)
- Language:
- English
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- image/tif
- Physical Condition:
- Good
- Metadata Last Modified Date:
- 2004-08-13
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