Indiana Public Health Images Collection

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This historical collection provides a unique picture of the health and well-being of Indiana residents through the prism of public health. The photographs, advertisements and illustrations portray Hoosier public health and medical history with resources from the 19th and 20th centuries. This work was performed under a subcontract with the University of Illinois at Chicago and made possible by grant number N01-LM-6-3503 from the National Library of Medicine.

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Adolescent girl suffering from severe case of smallpox.
(Indiana State Board of Health, 1900-01)
This girl, swollen out of all recognition with smallpox, is only nineteen years old. Had she veen vaccinated she almost certainly would have escaped the disease.
Advertisement of child health day event.
(Indiana State Board of Health, 1930-01) Davis, C.
[Text within image] May Day Child Health Day. School, Home, Community. Cooperation in Child Health Protection
Advertisement of May Day - Child Health Day event.
(Indiana State Board of Health, 1932-12)
[Text within image] May Day - Child Health Day. Mothers and Children First. In Tiems of Stress the Nation Must Follow the Law of the Sea.
Advertisement promoting child health day with an illustration of a flower with a home in the center.
(Indiana State Board of Health, 1932-02)
[Caption] Support your community child health program. It protects your home. "Public machinery directed to the protection of childhood, such as public health, welfare agencies, educational systems, should be the last to be affected by measures of economy." Gifford. Study "The Children's Charter" and apply it to your community from the standpoint of your organization. [Text within image] May Day Child Health Day 1932 Community Cooperation Protects the Home
Advertisement promoting child health day with an illustration of girl floating surrounded by images of the whitehouse, a church, a home and a school building.
(Indiana State Board of Health, 1931-02)
[Caption above image] May Day Child Health Day. Helps Meet the Challenge of the Children's Charter. [Caption below image] The Children's Charter Proclaims. The First Rights of Citizenship for the Children of Ameirca. Indiana State Board of Health. [Text within image] The Childrens Charter
Advertisement with an illustration of the American Flag and a statement encouraging a healthy lifestyle.
(Indiana State Board of Health, 1917-03)
[Text within image] Health First. Patriotism is manifest nowhere more intelligently, more potently, than in health conservation.
Advertisement with illustration of garden vegetables and text emphasizing the importance of eating more vegetables and fruit, and less meat.
(Indiana State Board of Health, 1915-06)
[Text in capital letters within image] Health First. For health eat little meat and eat more freely of fruit and vegetables.
Advertisement with illustration of girls outdoors.
(Indiana State Board of Health, 1915-12)
[Text in capital letters within image] Health First. The garden, the sunshine, and the out-door air make for health.
As seen in the picture all sides open by shutters which are hinged at the top and are raised from the bottom.
(Indiana State Board of Health, 1907-03)
A drawing of a portable one room house with opened shutters.
Audience inside the Health Side show in the Indiana State Fair, September 7th to 12th in 1914. Public watching educational lectures, films, and slides.
(Indiana State Board of Health, 1914-10)
Inside of Health Side-Show at the State Fair. The lecture department where still and moving pictures were shown and health lectures delivered.

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