Syphilis: A Million New Victims Each Year, mid 1940s

U.S. Public Health Service, United States

Photomechanical print: color; 56 x 71 cm.
Artist: Dorothy Darling Fellnagel (1913–2006)

A dark hand opening a calendar to reveal a photograph of a swarming crowd. Underneath, the outline of an amoeba-like blob overlays a shadowy field of red.