The small-pox troubles in Milwaukee, Wisconsin--residents of foreign birth resist the transfer of patients to the isolation hospital / drawn by Miss G.A. Davis ; from a sketch supplied by Fred. Dougherty.
Eddy Aquilera works in the milking parlor at Ripp’s Dairy Valley farm, where he has worked for four years. He is one of 11 immigrant workers on the farm.
A doctor unloading a box filled with a supply of the polio vaccine. The box in the foreground is labeled: "Polio Vaccine Rush" and the doctor is kneeling near a refrigerated case used to store medication.
Crowds of shoppers watch the demonstration of a polio resistance exerciser held in a store display window. Dick Murphy, captain of the U.W. boxing team, is shown receiving "treatment" on the machine by Frank Lam of the Elgin Exerciser Appliance Company, makers of the machine. It will be used in polio treatment at Wisconsin General Hospital and was donated by Sinclair gasoline dealers to the Dane County Chapter of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. Published in the Wisconsin State Journal on October 16, 1951.
This 1963 poster featured what at that time, was Communicable Disease Center’s (CDC) national symbol of public health, the Wellbee, who was depicted here, encouraging the public to receive an oral polio vaccine (OPV). CDC used Wellbee in a comprehensive marketing campaign that included newspapers, posters, leaflets, radio and television, as well as personal appearances at public health events. Wellbee’s first assignment was to sponsor Sabin Type II oral polio vaccine (OPV) campaigns across the United States. Later, Wellbee’s character was incorporated into other health promotion campaigns that included diphtheria and tetanus immunizations, hand-washing, physical fitness, and injury prevention. This artifact can be viewed, by visiting the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) David J. Sencer CDC Museum, located in Atlanta, Georgia
This poster illustrates the Progressive Era focus on public health awareness. By framing it as an issue involving "You and Yours", the poster makes public health a personal issue.
