This is Ann [graphic] : she drinks blood! / / prepared and distributed by Army Orientation Course, Special Service Division Army Service Forces, War Dept.
 	
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Title: 	
This is Ann [graphic] : she drinks blood! / / prepared and distributed by Army Orientation Course, Special Service Division Army Service Forces, War Dept.
Publisher: 	
Washington, D.C. : Special Service Division, Army Service Forces, War Dept. : U.S. G.P.O., 1943.
Description: 	
1 photomechanical print (poster) : col. ; 45 x 60 cm.
Related Elec. Res.: 	
Digitized (reformatted) version of the poster, available from the Young Diptera website (USDA & NMNH)  http://www.sel.barc.usda.gov/diptera/ann0.htm
Series: 	
Newsmap (Overseas edition) ; -- v. 2, no. 29
Notes: 	
Caption title.
Issued in Newsmap, Overseas edition, Monday, Nov. 8, 1943 (week of Oct. 28 to Nov. 4), v. 2, no. 29.
Publisher information at bottom of poster.
Secondary caption: Her full name is Anopheles mosquito and she's dying to meet you.
"Unattributed illustrations by Theodor Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss). Text by Munro Leaf" --UCSD Libraries online catalog record for the booklet version of this publication.
"Her trade is dishing out malaria! She's at home in Africa, the Caribbean, India, the south and southwest Pacific, and other hot spots ...."
The verso of the poster features maps of various theaters of the war in November, 1943, including the Crimea, etc.
Issued also as a 32 p. booklet, and as a larger poster (measuring 89 x 120 cm.).
Summary: 	
Predominantly white poster with red and black lettering. Title at top of poster, along with two cartoon-style illustrations of mosquitoes. One of the mosquitoes holds a goblet filled with blood; the other peers through a keyhole. There are three short columns of text immediately below the title, followed by seven columns of text interspersed with red and black cartoon images of mosquitoes, G.I.'s, mosquito netting and repellent, and a horse wearing a horse-collar.
Local Note: 	
SCNHRB copy 39088015300338 has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Gift of Betty J. and F. Christian Thompson.
SCNHRB copy is autographed in ink (somewhat faded) by Dr. Seuss.
Subject: 	
United States. Army. Medical Corps -- Posters.
Malaria -- Posters.
Anopheles -- Posters.
Mosquitoes as carriers of disease.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Health aspects -- Posters.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Added Author: 	
Leaf, Munro, 1905-1976.
Seuss, Dr., ill.
Seuss, Dr., inscriber.
United States. War Department. Special Services Division.
United States. Government Printing Office.
Army Orientation Course.
Added Series: 	
Newsmap (Overseas edition) ; v. 2, no. 29.
Catalog Source No.: 	
(OCoLC)ocn696324560