Your Kiss of Affection Poster

ID: 5415 ~ Source: Library of Congress - Tuberculosis Don't kiss me!: Your kiss of affection - the germ of infection / / JD. Hempstead New York, None. [New york: wpa federal art project, district 4, between 1936 and 1941] Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/98516354/. ~ Creator: WPA Federal Art Project ~ Date: 1941
This file appears in: Edgecliff Sanitarium

Due to the ways that tuberculosis was transferred health officials discouraged behaviors that could endanger the lives of the most vulnerable in society.

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…