A tuberculosis nurse watching children free of tuberculosis playing in a park; representing the benefits of purchasing anti-tuberculosis stamps. Colour lithograph after E. Vilà, 192-.

  • Vilà, Emilio, 1887-1967.
Date:
[between 1920 and 1929]
Reference:
675849i
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Description

The nurse wears on her costume the cross with the double crossbar which forms the device of the struggle against tuberculosis

Publication/Creation

[France] : Ministère de la santé publique (Commission générale de propagande de l'Office national d'hygiène Sociale) ; Paris (66 Boulevard Saint-Michel) : Comité national de défense contre la tuberculose (Paris (79, rue Dareau) : Imp. des Beaux-Arts), [between 1920 and 1929]

Physical description

1 print : lithograph, printed in colours ; sheet 80.1 x 60 cm

Lettering

Achetez le timbre antituberculeux. Vilà. Ministère de la santé publique (Commission générale de propagande de l'office national d'hygiène sociale). Campagne nationale du timbre antituberculeux organisé par le Comité national de défense contre la tuberculose. Reconnu d'utilité publique

References note

Marine Robert-Sterkendries, Posters of health, 1996, no. 359 (larger version (?); as dated "end of the 1920s")

Reference

Wellcome Collection 675849i

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