Fight in the Crusade Against TB

ID: 5414 ~ Source: Library of Congress - Federal Art Project, Sponsor. Take part in America's crusade against tuberculosis Cook County Public Health Unit. Chicago Illinois, 1940. [Chicago: Illinois WPA Art Project] Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/98508942/.
 ~ Creator: WPA
This file appears in: Edgecliff Sanitarium

Posters produced by the WPA were an essential tool used by the US government to promote certain attitudes in the general population, including unification against medical threats.

This file appears in: Edgecliff Sanitarium

By RaeAnn Anderson
Tuberculosis was endemic in America in the 1800s and early 1900s. Known as consumption or "the White Plague," the disease killed thousands of people each year, and there was no cure. Tuberculosis Sanitariums such as Edgecliff were built to…