Malaria: spraying a workers' settlement with DDT and benzine hexachloride (lindane) to kill the mosquitoes. Colour lithograph after A.D. Polumordvinov and others, 1953.

  • Polumordvinov, A.D., active 1945-1953.
Date:
1953
Reference:
578483i
Part of:
Predupredim zabolevani︠︡ia mali︠a︡rieĭ
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Malaria: spraying a workers' settlement with DDT and benzine hexachloride (lindane) to kill the mosquitoes. Colour lithograph after A.D. Polumordvinov and others, 1953. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

Three scenes of men spraying insecticide inside and outside. Legends mean in English (top) "Kill the mosquitoes in a [workers'] settlement. DDT and benzine hexachloride kill mosquitoes, moths, ... and other insects"; (bottom left) "Every house has to be treated with DDT and benzine hexachloride"; (bottom right) "Inner surfaces must be treated with DDT"

Publication/Creation

Moskva [Moscow] : Ministerstvo zdravookhraneni︠︡ia SSSR, Institut Sanitarnogo Prosveshcheni︠︡ia, 1953 ([Moscow] : Tipografi︠︡ia "Krasnyĭ Proletariĭ"

Physical description

1 print : lithograph, printed in colours ; sheet 59.7 x 49.6 cm.

Lettering

Unichtozhaĭte komarov v rabochem poselke

Edition

Tirazh 20000 [print run 20,000].

Reference

Wellcome Collection 578483i

Creator/production credits

Contributors: "Avtory A.D. Polumordvinov i V.A. Nabokov. Khudozhniki O.A. Dmitriev i V.V. Danilova. Metodist L.A. Strelkova. Redaktor A.M. Nemirovskiĭ."

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