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Syphilis: A Million New Victims Each Year

U.S. Public Health Service, United States, mid-1940s.
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.


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