Browse Items (5 total)
Sort by:
The American Issue, May 4, 1917
The image shows two children holding a sign that reads, "BABY WEEK! EVERY BABY HAS A RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN. ALCOHOL CURES POSTERITIY." . One boy and a girl, and they appear to be were healthy and happy possibly meaning that they could be the ideal…
The American Issue, June 12, 1914
A man is drinking, but the alcohol signs a agreement for him that his children may have epilepsy, idiocy, feeble mindedness, and criminal tendencies.
Hand and Hand Feeblemindedness and Alcoholism
The poster presents two pie graphs with manipulated data:
Graph 1: Percentage of 250 "feebleminded" children with alcoholic parents
Graph 2: Percentage of 100 "normal" children with alcoholic parents
By using unequal sample sizes (250 vs. 100),…
Alcoholic Dogs Had more Feeble and Defective Puppies.
In this poster it shows a graph of dogs that were feed alcohol compared to dogs that did not. The dogs that were given alcohol only 17% of their puppies survived compared to dogs that did not drink 90% of their puppies lived.
The American Issue, June 28, 1912.
The image is split in two. On the left side is a young baby, and a fly hovering over the baby. On top of the image of the baby says "Kill the Fly, and Save the Baby." Below the image reads, "Summer complaint, which causes the death of many young…