Malaria: a mosquito flying through a house owing to lack of preventive measures. Colour lithograph by Margo, attributed to Margo Cooke, 1943.
- Cooke, Margo, active approximately 1943.
- Date:
- [1943?]
- Reference:
- 578188i
- Pictures
About this work
Description
In diagrammatic form except the speaking mosquito which is in cartoon style
Publication/Creation
Washington, D.C. : Federal Security Agency, U.S. Public Health Service, [1943?]
Physical description
1 print : lithograph, printed in colours ; sheet 35.5 x 25.5 cm
Contributors
Lettering
Mosquito proof your home. I wasn't kept out, so I spread malaria about! Margo
Bears printer's reference no.: 1943-O-516139
Reference
Wellcome Collection 578188i
Creator/production credits
Margo is inferred to be Margo Cooke from a photograph of her and Louis Priscilla, Chairman of the Committee on War Cartoons of the American Society of Magazine Cartoons, discussing their contribution to an exhibition of cartoons concerning lost hours in war production, sponsored by the OWI (Office of War Information), June 1943 (Library of Congress)
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Where to find it
Location Status Access Closed stores