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Prepared from the source scan: surroundings removed and the sheet levelled where required. The source record remains available below.
The WPA & the Golden Age · The Public Good
Syphilis: Six Out of Ten Cured Because They Did Not Wait Too Long
WPA Federal Art Project, New York, 1941
Format
Archival pigment giclée on museum-grade matte art paper, color-managed to the source scan — the flat inks and stone grain intact. The 40×60 is the room-changer.
Size
$39.00
What it is
A WPA silkscreen poster showing cured and sick men: 'Syphilis .... six out of ten cured because they did not wait too long.' Board, 55.9 by 35.6 cm, stamped May 14 1941.
Why it matters
From the New York Federal Art Project's syphilis posters, a sibling of The Great Crippler already in the catalogue.
What to notice
The number does the persuading: six out of ten.
Waiting, named as the danger.
Provenance
- School
- WPA — Federal Art Project (United States)
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- WPA Federal Art Project, New York, 1941
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · POS - WPA - NY .01 .S877, no. 1 (B size) [P&P]; LCCN 98514735; ppmsca 38339
Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. government work (the WPA Federal Art Project, the wartime agencies), any year. Gated by the poster’s own publication year. Cleared by registry on 2026-11-01.
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