The National Library of Medicine, the world's largest medical library and a component of the National Institutes of Health, announces "Health for the People," a new Web exhibit focusing on Chinese public health posters and other paper ephemera. You can explore it at:
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/healthforthepeople/index.html
Acquired by the Library in 2006, the Chinese poster collection consists of about 3,000 items. "We probably have the largest collection of Chinese public health posters outside of China," said Paul Theerman, PhD, chief of Images and Archives in the History of Medicine Division.
The collection is mostly made up of posters from the People's Republic (or post-revolutionary) era, from the 1950s through the 1970s. In the days before the Internet and the 24/7 news cycle, the Chinese government relied on posters to get health messages out to its citizens.
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You can view a larger selection of the Chinese Health Posters at:
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/chineseposters/index.html
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