Sewer History: Photos and Graphics

Advertisements for disease remedies
	When there were no real cures for most diseases, fear and desparation led people to try anything recommended by physicians or hawked by salesmen. Remedies and antidotes range from effective (soaps) to worse than useless (the snake oil peddled by charlatans).
	You need only one soap--Ivory soap / the Strobridge Lith. Co., Cin'ti & New York. Cin[cinna]ti ; New York: The Strobridge Lith. Co., c1898. Source: Library of Congress, LC-DIG-ppmsca-05944
	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 woman is seated holding an open book of sheet music. Phila. : c1869. Source: Library of Congress, LC-DIG-ppmsca-08126
	Merchant's gargling oil for man and beast. Buffalo : Clay, Cosack & Co., c1873. Source: Library of Congress, LC-USZ62-48534
	Southern remedies. HAH & Co. [device]. The Hindoo remedy for asiatic cholera, cholera morbus, dysentery, diarrhea, cramp colic, & c. Prepared by H.A. Hughes & Co., druggists, Louisville, Ky. Source: Library of Congress, LC-USZ62-102492
	Gilbert & Parsons, hygienic whiskey--for medical use / lith. in colors by Robertson, Seibert & Shearman, N.Y., ca. 1860. Source: Library of Congress, LC-USZC4-4163
Sanitation posters and graphics from the Library of Congress
	Chinamen confined within the Chinese quarter, cooking their meals, by Rogers, W. A. (William Allen), 1854-1931, artist. Published in: "The Bubonic Plague in San Francisco," Harper's weekly, 44:505 (June 2, 1900). Source: Library of Congress, LC-USZ62-120792
	Poster for Illinois WPA Safety Division promoting immediate treatment of on-the-job injuries. [Ill. : Federal Art Project, between 1936 and 1941]. Source: Library of Congress, LC-USZC2-806
	Be clean in everything that concerns your baby. [Rochester, N.Y.] : WPA Federal Art Project, Dis. 4, [between 1936 and 1939] Source: Library of Congress, LC-USZC2-938
	Poster promoting proper child care, showing a baby picketing. [Rochester, N.Y.] : WPA Federal Art Project, [between 1936 and 1938]. Source: Library of Congress, LC-USZC2-939
	Keep clean. [Rochester, N.Y.] : Federal Art Project, [between 1936 and 1939] Source: Library of Congress, LC-USZC2-942
	Poster promoting treatment for syphilis, showing dinosaurs. [New York] : WPA Federal Art Project, [1936 or 1937]. Source: Library of Congress, LC-USZC2-947
	Poster created for the Federal Art Project by artist John Buczak, Illinois, 1940. The poster promoted sanitary facilities by showing a giant fly above an outhouse, with text: "Outwitted by community sanitation. Community sanitation planning keeps flies away from deadly disease germs with the ... modern approved sanitary privy." Source: Library of Congress, LC-USZC2-1592 DLC.
	Poster created for the WPA Federal Art Project, artist unknown, Chicago, Illinois, between 1936 and 1941. The poster shows an outhouse in a picturesque, small town setting, with text: "Your home is not complete without a sanitary unit, recommended by the State Department of Public Health." Source: Library of Congress, LC-USZC2-1594 DLC.
	Cholera Preventative, by M.G. Saphir, ca. 1850. Source: Library of Congress, LC-USZ62-102769.
	Un grand fléau la tuberculose. Paris : Commission Américaine de préservation contre la tuberculose en France, [1917]. Source: Library of Congress, LC-USZC2-4044
	Poster for the Chicago Department of Health, showing a flying disc "Toxoid preventing a lightning bolt from striking a child." Chicago : Illinois WPA Art Project, [between 1936 and 1941]. Source: Library of Congress, LC-USZC2-5171
	Good grades - Habits go together City of Chicago Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium : Get your test now. Chicago, Ill. : WPA Federal Art Project, [1939] Source: Library of Congress, LC-USZC2-5178
	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. Chicago, Ill. : WPA Federal Art Project, [between 1936 and 1939]. Source: Library of Congress, LC-USZC2-5185
	Poster showing boys and girls marching. "March on to health Get your test now : City of Chicago Municipal Tuburculosis Sanitarium." Chicago, Ill. : WPA Federal Art Project, [between 1936 and 1939]. Source: Library of Congress, LC-USZC2-5207
	"Take part in America's crusade against tuberculosis Cook County Public Health Unit." Chicago : Illinois WPA Art Project, [1940]. Source: Library of Congress, LC-USZC2-5208
	City of Chicago Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium poster promoting testing for tuberculosis and showing two girls playing basketball, shooting at hoop "good health." Chicago, Ill. : WPA Federal Art Project, [between 1936 and 1939]. Source: Library of Congress, LC-USZC2-5234
	Poster showing a woman and two children in the rain. Chicago : Illinois WPA Art Project, [between 1936 and 1941] Source: Library of Congress, LC-USZC2-5237
	Help your neighborhood by keeping your premises clean Tenement House Dept. of the City of New York : F.H. La Guardia, Mayor : Langdon W. Post, Commissioner. Federal Art Project, 1936 or 1937. Source: Library of Congress, LC-USZC2-5299
	Poster promoting better health care through the prevention of tuberculosis by better eating and sleeping habits, and more exposure to sunshine. [New York] : WPA Federal Art Project, Dis. 4, [between 1936 and 1941] Source: Library of Congress, LC-USZC2-5308
	Poster promoting regular medical checkups for prevention of tuberculosis, showing woman holding a flower. [New York] : WPA Federal Art Project, [between 1936 and 1938]. Source: Library of Congress, LC-USZC2-532
	Poster promoting proper health care for children, showing a girl with a fawn. "No creature in this world so ignorantly nurtured as the average baby Advice at your health bureau." [New York] : WPA Federal Art Project, [between 1936 and 1938] Source: Library of Congress, LC-USZC2-5327
	Poster promoting better health care. [New York] : WPA Federal Art Project, [between 1936 and 1939]. Source: Library of Congress, LC-USZC2-5334
	Poster about tuberculosis in children and methods of transmission, showing a child wearing a bib. [New York] : WPA Federal Art Project, District 4, [between 1936 and 1941]. Source: Library of Congress, LC-USZC2-5369
	Poster for Adult Education Project announcing free courses in health education. [New York : Federal Art Project, between 1936 and 1941] Source: Library of Congress, LC-USZC2-5377
	Poster encouraging citizens to "consult your physician" for treatment of the common cold, showing a shark. [New York] : Federal Art Project, W.P.A., [1936 or 1937]. Source: Library of Congress, LC-USZC2-5391
	Poster encouraging truck drivers to report to proper authorities cases of communicable diseases encountered on their routes. "Milk truckers do not! pick up milk at farms where there are cases of diphtheria, scarlet fever, infantile paralysis, spinal meningitis, smallpox, typhoid Report all cases on your route to .... Food and Drug Adminstration." [sic] Ohio : WPA Art Program, [between 1936 and 1940]. Source: Library of Congress, LC-DIG-ppmsca-123926
	Poster for Philadelphia Department of Health warning of potential health risks from exposure to flies. Philadelphia, Pa. : War Services Project, [between 1941 and 1943] Source: Library of Congress, LC-USZC2-5437
	Poster promoting proper health care for pregnant women, showing a stork. [New York] : WPA Federal Art Project, [between 1936 and 1938]. Source: Library of Congress, LC-USZC2-5511
	Caricature of vaccination scene at the Smallpox and Inoculation Hospital at St. Pancras, showing Dr. Jenner vaccinating frightened young woman, and cows emerging from different parts of people's bodies. "The cow-pock - or - the wonderful effects of the new inoculation" / Js. Gillray, del. & ft. [London] : pubd. by H. Humphrey, 1802 June 12th. Source: Library of Congress, LC-USZC4-3147
	"We've fought in the open - bubonic plague, yellow fever, tuberculosis--now venereal diseases" / H. Dewitt Welsh. New York : H.C. Miner Litho. Co., [1918(?)] Source: Library of Congress, LC-USZC4-4257
	Post-World War I poster promoting health in America, showing a soldier with an eagle perched on his shoulder. N.Y. : The H.C. Miner Litho. Co., [between 1918 and 1920]. Source: Library of Congress, LC-USZC4-7825
	World War I poster (1918) by American illustrator Boardman Robinson (1876-1952). "Save the Serbians from cholera. Franco-Serbian Field Hospital of America, 17 W. 30th St., New York." Source: Library of Congress, LC-USZC4-9858
	"The health of the child is the power of the nation Children's year, April 1918 - April 1919" / F. Luis Mora. N[ew] Y[ork] : The W. F. Powers Co., Litho., 1918. Source: Library of Congress, LC-USZC4-9867
Sanitation graphics - other
	From the 14th to the 20th centuries, ports around the world carried out official quarantines of arriving travelers in hopes of staving off epidemics of plague, yellow fever, and other deadly scourges. The caption to this drawing from an 1858 issue of Harper's Weekly quotes a Dr. Anderson as saying: "While the Angel of Death rides on the fumes of the iron scow, and infected airs are wafted to our shores from the anchorage, we shall have no security against these annual visitations of pestilence." Source: Nova - History of Quarantine