Visual Culture and Health Posters

Title:: Easy to Get. . .

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Description:

This 1940 Charles Casa illustration of a prostitute leaning against a brick wall on a deserted street corner uses boldly contrasting colors to accent its message. The title, "Easy to get," refers to both the woman and the disease. The contrast of yellow on red background and the suggestiveness of the image and text are both used to catch the attention of the viewer while ultimately challenging the soldiers' correlation between sexually available women and good times.

NOTE: Slide of original poster image is blurry.

Number of Image Pages:

1 (715,012 Bytes)

Date:

1940

Creator:

Casa, Charles

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: A025559

Publisher:

U.S. Government Printing Service

Rights:

This item is in the public domain. It may be used without permission.

Subject:

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)

She May Be a Bag of Trouble (1940)

Venereal Disease Covers the Earth (1940)

She May Look Clean--But [ca. 1940]

Unique Identifier:

VCBBCC

Document Type:

Posters

Slides (photographs)

Language:

English

Format:

image/jpeg

image/tif

Physical Condition:

Poor

Metadata Last Modified Date:

2004-08-13

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