Public Health Posters Take Aim against Bloodthirsty Ann

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• Alternative Title:
  Emerg Infect Dis
• Personal Author:
  Breedlove, Byron
• Description:
  Ted Geisel (aka Dr. Seuss) illustration; Munro Leaf, text; United States War Department Special Services Division and Government Printing Office. This is Ann–: she drinks blood! (1943). Photomechanical print (poster): 35 inches x 47 inches/89 cm x 120 cm. National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland, USA. Public domain image.
  
  Office of War Information posters and publica- tions do not include credits. But the cartoonish imag- es of Ann may look familiar. They are the handiwork of the young Army Captain Theodore Geisel, best known as Dr. Seuss, the pen name he used for writing and illustrating more than 60 children’s books such as Green Eggs and Ham and The Cat in the Hat. Assigned to the Animation Department, First Motion Picture Unit, in Hollywood, California, USA, Geisel worked with a creative team of artists, cartoonists, writers, and filmmakers. Among them was Munro Leaf, an- other prolific author of childrens’ books, including The Story of Ferdinand. Leaf drafted the text for this malaria poster and collaborated with Geisel on the related booklet This Is Ann / She’s Dying to Meet You, featuring more of their text and illustrations.
  
  
• Subjects:
  About The Cover Anopheles Health Promotion History, 20th Century Insect Vectors Malaria/prevention & Control Mosquito Control Posters As Topic
• Source:
  Emerg Infect Dis. 27(2):676-677
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC7853562
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Name as Subject:
  United States Army. ; Leaf, Munro. ; Seuss, Dr. ; United States Army. ; Leaf, Munro. ; Seuss, Dr.
• Genre:
  About the Cover
• Volume:
  27
• Issue:
  2
• Collection(s):
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:aac5b96d006582c0fc6f62c0054c43d1f557304e582b63d56bbff414fa7426d4
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/102491/cdc_102491_DS1.pdf
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