Turkmen poster promoting smallpox vaccination
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Title
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Turkmen poster promoting smallpox vaccination
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Creator
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Turkmenistan Soviet Socialist Republic, Publishing Company of the People's Commission for Sanitary Education
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Description
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Vaccination against smallpox: a young Turkmen being vaccinated, contrasted with an elderly Turkmen who is blinded and disfigured by smallpox.
Poster transcription in Turkmen: Zger kör we biçäre bolmak ispemeseň, öziňe mama sançdyr.
Translation: If you don't want to be blind and miserable, give yourself a shot.
Poster transcription in Russian: Если не желаешь быть слабым, беспомощным, прививай оспу
Translation: If you don't want to be weak, helpless, vaccinate smallpox
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Date Created
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Between 1930 and 1939
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Medium
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Color lithograph
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Format
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Dimensions: 3,446 × 5,114
