Aww, check out these delightfully non-sexist and completely factual VD awareness posters!
See them all at The San Francisco City Clinic’s awesome exhibit “100 Years of Sex: 1911-2011.”
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Fri 29 Apr 2011
Women: Totally Diseased
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Fri 4 Mar 2011
Sheep, Librarians, and Blondie
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Did you know that Woodrow Wilson used sheep to keep the White House lawn trimmed during WWI? It’s true!
But the sheep did more than keep the grass at bay. The auctioning of prized White House wool raised over $100,000 for the Red Cross. That’s equivalent to $1.5 million in today’s dollars—money that could be well spent restoring the decrepit National Mall. But even beyond the sale of shearings, the federal flock would be an economic boon for Washington. Just think of the tourist kitsch.
Hattie McDaniel Oscar Acceptance Speech
Hattie McDaniel wins Best Supporting Actress for Gone With The Wind, becoming the first black actor to win an Academy Award.
Senator Verda Welcome
December 1950
Paul S. Henderson (d. 1966)
4×5 inch black and white negative
Henderson Collection, Maryland Historical Society
HEN.00.B1-054
Verda Freedom Welcome (1907-1990) was a teacher, Civil Rights leader, and the first African American woman to be elected to the state senate. Welcome moved to Baltimore in 1929 and graduated from Coppin State Teachers College. Welcome was elected to the Maryland State Senate in 1962 and survived an assassination attempt in 1964, after which two men were convicted.
h/t blackvintage
