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American Social Hygiene Posters is an online database of public health poster images dated between 1910 and 1970 illustrating various U.S. government edicts to the public over issues of morality, heath, and hygiene. The posters are taken from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities University Libraries Social Welfare History Archives collection. The images can by searched by keyword, title, subject or ID, or browsed by period, which covers 1910 to the 1950s, or by subject. Amongst the subjects covered are dance, family health, friendship, health, health education, home economics, hygiene, mental health, military education, physical fitness, prostitution, reproduction, sexual abstinence, sexual transmitted diseases, women, and health posters from the First and Second World Wars. There are also posters of Robert Falcon Scott, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt as examples of healthy role models. Each poster image is accompanied record information such as when it was published, where it's held, and its title and identifier. The images can be enlarged, but unfortunately for many of the posters not to a size large enough to read the text on them easily.