A prostitute lighting a cigarette outside a bar; warning American servicemen against sexually transmitted diseases. Colour lithograph after Ferree, 194-.

  • Ferree.
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Between 1940 and 1949?
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979833i
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A prostitute lighting a cigarette outside a bar; warning American servicemen against sexually transmitted diseases. Colour lithograph after Ferree, 194-. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

The bar behind the woman is named on the door as "Shorty's place. Dancing". It is described as a "juke joint", i.e. a bar with a juke box. A notice above the door says "Beer". She is called a "sniper" because she can disable or kill American soldiers covertly, like a sniper with a gun

Publication/Creation

[USA] : [tbc], Between 1940 and 1949?

Physical description

1 print : lithograph, printed in colours ; sheet 50.7 x 38.2 cm

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Juke joint sniper. Syphilis and gonorrhea. Ferree

Reference

Wellcome Collection 979833i

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