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Lack of funds need not discourage from seeking competent medical care
Work Projects Administration, 1939
What it is
The Library of Congress dates this sheet only to a range - between 1936 and 1939, with a July 18, 1939 stamp on the verso - so the exact year is unrecorded.
Why it matters
It is a silkscreen in colour on board, printed under the WPA's Federal Art Project poster programme, and it exists because in the late 1930s the assumption that a doctor was for people with money was doing real damage. The copy is plain to the point of bluntness, which is what makes it land.
What to notice
A Depression-era poster that says the quiet part out loud: being broke is not a reason to stay sick.
Made by artists on the public payroll — art the country already owned.
Provenance
- School
- WPA — Federal Art Project (United States)
- Format
- One-sheet
- Poster published
- Work Projects Administration, 1939
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · LCCN 98514285
Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. government program work (WPA Federal Art Project), any year. Gated by the poster’s own publication year. Cleared by registry on 2026-07-18.
Format
The full-resolution, color-managed file — restored honestly, yours to print and keep.
Sized to protect print quality — this scan supports sizes up to 18x24" cleanly.
Size
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