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Tuberculosis threatens the life and wealth of Catalonia, 1922. Author: Ramon Casas and phototype Thomas. Fund: Commonwealth of Catalonia.

Date
1922
Archive
General Archive of the Provincial Council of Barcelona
Document type
Produccions Artístiques
Reference code
CAT-AGDB-Calaixera B
Link to the archive
Description

This work by the painter Ramon Casas is part of the advertising commission he received from the director of the Tuberculosis Social Assistance Service of Catalonia, Dr. Lluís Sayé Tuberculosis was a worrying issue in Barcelona society at the time due to the high mortality rate and as a social problem during the first third of the 20th century. Casas’ poster was hung in the library of the central dispensary that the anti-tuberculosis service, created by the Commonwealth of Catalonia in 1921, had on Carrer Torres i Amat in Barcelona.