Ten people at a swimming pool, one of whom will be infected with syphilis before the age of fifty. Lithograph after D. Fellnagel, 1940.

  • Fellnagel, Dorothy Darling, 1913-2006.
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[1940]
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47637i
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Ten people at a swimming pool, one of whom will be infected with syphilis before the age of fifty. Lithograph after D. Fellnagel, 1940. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Nine people around the side of a swimming pool, one person swimming in it

Publication/Creation

[Place of publication not identified] : United States Public Health Service, [1940]

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1 print : lithograph, printed in colours

Lettering

Syphilis strikes 1 in 10 before 50. A blood test - the only sure check. Fellnagel

Creator/production credits

The artist Fellnagel is assumed to be Dorothy Darling Fellnagel, b. Kansas City, Aug. 26, 1913; d. Oakland, California, Apr. 22, 2006 (Susan V. Craig, Biographical dictionary of Kansas artists active before 1945, 2006, s.v. Fellnagel)

References note

'Public Health Service publications. A list of publications issued during the period July-December 1940', Public health reports, 14 March 1941, vol. 56, p. 534 ("Venereal Disease Posters. 10. Syphilis strikes 1 in 10 before 50. 11. A blood test for every one-the only sure check")

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Wellcome Collection 47637i

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