She May Be…a Bag of TROUBLE
Syphilis ~ Gonorrhea.
U.S. Public Health Service, United States, 1940s.
Photomechanical print: color; 41 x 51 cm. Artist: “Christian.”
A sultry, heavily-made-up woman squints provocatively, while smoking a cigarette. WWII posters usually addressed men—and figured promiscuous women as the source of contagion.
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