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Visual Culture and Public Health Posters with short vignettes of four visual culture and public health posters to the right of the words.

At The Gates. Our safety depends upon official vigilance

The specters of cholera, yellow fever, and smallpox recoil in fear as their way through the Port of New York is blocked by a barrier on which is written 'quarantine' and by an angel holding a sword and shield on which is written 'cleanliness'.

Title: At The Gates. Our safety depends upon official vigilance.
Date: 1885
Copyright Information: This item is in the public domain.

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