She May Be a Bag of Trouble
- Title:
- She May Be a Bag of Trouble
- Date:
- 1940
- Description:
- This 1940 poster uses the same technique of featuring the heavily made-up, cigarette-smoking woman as a venereal disease carrier. Appealing to the soldier's interest in the eye-catching woman, the headline playfully warns "She may be. . . a bag of TROUBLE." The contrasts in color, font size, and capitalization draw the viewer's attention to the word "trouble" in an attempt to create an association between the word and the image. Below the warning, the inclusion of the words "syphilis-gonorrhea" further suggest to the viewer that this is not an appealing woman but a treacherous menace.
- Original Repository:
- The History of Medicine Division. Prints and Photographs Collection
- Rights:
- Courtesy of the National Library of Medicine.
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- Genre:
- Posters
Slides (photographs) - Subject:
- Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Women, and Public Health
- Format:
- Still Image
- Extent:
- 1 pages
- Relation:
- Juke Joint Sniper, 1942 Easy to Get. . ., 1940 Venereal Disease Covers the Earth, 1940 She May Look Clean--But, 1940
- Language:
- English
- Legacy Source Citation:
- Original Repository. History of Medicine Division. Prints and Photographs Collection. 11611. Free Text. This image may also be accessed from the Images from the History of Medicine (IHM).. URL. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/ihm/. IHM Order Number. A025561
- Legacy ID:
- VCBBCB
- NLM ID:
- 101584655X21
- Profiles Collection:
- Visual Culture and Health Posters
- Shareable Link:
- https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584655X21
- Story Section:
- Infectious Disease