Public Health Placard: "DES. The wonder drug women should wonder about."
date: label: date made
content: 1979 - 1980
name: label: maker
content: New York City Department of Health
notes: label: Description
content: Black and white counter-type placard with fold-out easel-style stand. Placard has a color photo of a white woman staring out of a window with her hand held under her chin. Text on placard reads: "DES (diethylstilbestrol) has been linked with medical problems in the children of women who took it. Find out if you were given DES. Ask your doctor or local health department. N.Y.S Health Department - Office of Health Promotion"
label: Description
content: "DES. The wonder drug women should wonder about." was a state-wide multi-media public awareness campaign of New York State, 1979-1980.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of the City of New York Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2018.3042.695
label: catalog number
content: 2018.3042.695
label: nonaccession number
content: 2018.3042
objectType: label: Object Name
content: placard, public health campaign
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cardboard (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 25.4 cm x 17.8 cm x .1 cm; 10 in x 7 in x 1/32 in