Against the wall on two sides of the interior of a ladies' cloak-room at Vauxhall, a bench forms a latrine on which four fashionably dressed ladies are seated. On the right a woman resembling Lady Archer is shown in profile looking to the right as she applies paint to her cheeks in front of a mirror lit by two candles. A young woman seated beside her on the extreme right ties up her garter; this is inscribed 'on things (?) eternal'. She wears a large nosegay. All the women wear hats and have large bosoms and derrières except one, whose hair is ornamented with feathers, &c. On the ground are a glove, a nosegay, and papers inscribed 'Dr Leak venereal' [maker of much-advertised pills], &c. The room is lit by single candles in sconces
Description:
Title etched below image., Attribution to Kingsbury in British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Pub May 14 1788, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Archer, Sarah West, Lady, 1741-1801
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & drews, Mirrors, Privies, Sconces, and Sexually transmitted diseases
As described in the Gospel of St John, Chapter V, Christ is shown healing the sick beside the Pool of Bethesda, as an angel observes from above. At the center Christ reaches out to a crippled man who sits beside the Pool of Bethesda, shown here with an ulcer on his leg. Among the others looking for cures is a girl with Down's Syndrome (?), a woman with consumption or tuberculosis; a blind man with a stick; a man with jaundice (or melancholia or depression); a bearded man with gout and a distressed woman beside him with an injured breast; a child in the foreground carries a crutch. In the background, a servant of a naked woman pushes aside a mother with a sick baby. The mistress is most probably suffering from gonorrhea, as indicated by the rashes on her skin. Finally, in the foreground on the extreme right a pitiful man with an emaciated face full of pain and a hand on his swollen abdomen uses a crutch to approach the pool
Description:
Title engraved below image., "Vol. II, No. 57"--Lower left., "Size of the picture, 13f, 8i by 20f, 3i in length."--Lower left, below volume number., "St. John Chp. V."--Lower right., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:
Published Feby. 24th 1772 by John Boydell, engraver in Cheapside, London
Subject (Name):
Jesus Christ,
Subject (Topic):
Bethesda, Pool of., Biblical events, Diseases, Healing, Miracles, People with disabilities, and Sexually transmitted diseases
Title from item., Date supplied by curator., Text within poster: A prevention campaign of the Swiss Federal Office of Public Health in cooperation with the Swiss Aids Foundation., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Swiss Federal Office of Public Health
Subject (Topic):
AIDS (Disease)., Sexually transmitted diseases, Condom use, Medicine, Preventive, and Condoms
Title and date from item., Text below image: Bumed USN, in conjunction with OWI-VP-5 ; U.S. Government Printing Office: 1943-O-552229., Al Posen created a daily comic strip called "Them Days is Gone Forever" which ran 1922-1925. He revived the theme for this poster., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
U. S. Navy in conjunction with the Office of War Information and United States Government Printing Office
Subject (Topic):
Sexually transmitted diseases, World War, 1939-1945, Soldiers, Hospital wards, and Military facilities
Title, date, and publisher from item. and In lower margin: NavMed 990, VP-28, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, U.S. Navy ; U.S. Government Printing Office: 1946 O-683864 ; Prepared in cooperation with U.S. Naval Medical School, National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Md.
Publisher:
Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, U.S. Navy and U.S. Government Printing Office
Subject (Geographic):
Japan.
Subject (Topic):
Sexually transmitted diseases, World War, 1939-1945, Prostitution, Japanese, Prostitutes, and Soldiers
Title from item., Date supplied by curator., Publisher from item., In lower left corner: NAVPERS 110051 VD-9., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
USN Bureau of Naval Personnel
Subject (Topic):
Sexually transmitted diseases, Syphilis, Gonorrhea, World War, 1939-1945, Prostitution, Sailors, Sick persons, and Prostitutes
Poster shows caricatures of Adolph Hitler, Benito Mussolini, and Hideki Tojo discussing American soldiers and VD, with inset drawings of the syphilis, chancroid, and gonorrhea diseases
Alternative Title:
American soldier could catch it with ease, but prophylaxis prevents disease
Description:
Title, date, and publisher from item., In margin lower right: Printed in U. S. A. ; VP-1., and Tojo says to Hitler, "American soldier could catch it with ease," and Hitler responds, "But prophylaxis prevents disease."
Publisher:
John Wyeth & Brother, Inc., Philadelphia, PA.
Subject (Name):
Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945,, Mussolini, Benito, 1883-1945,, and Tōjō, Hideki, 1884-1948,
Subject (Topic):
World War, 1939-1945, Sexually transmitted diseases, Prevention, Military hygiene, and Medicine, Military
Title from item., Date supplied by curator., Second edition of 1000., Place of publication derived from poster text., and Below title: Berkeley VD Clinic 850 University Avenue ...
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Clinics, Sexually transmitted diseases, University of California, Berkeley, Nooses, and Roses
Title from item., Date derived from poster style and printing company history., In margin lower left: A.C.--249/5,000., Text is also in Hindi., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Issued by the Director General of Health Services, Govt. of India, New Delhi. Published by the Advertising Branch, Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, Govt. of India and Printed by Messrs Imperial Art Cottage, Calcutta 8.
Subject (Topic):
Public health, Communicable diseases, Prevention, Sexually transmitted diseases, Children, Diseases, and Infants
