Vaccination against smallpox: a young Turkmen being vaccinated, contrasted with an elderly Turkmen who is blinded and disfigured by smallpox. Colour lithograph, 193-.

[Ashkhabad] T.S.S.R. (Ashkhabad : Poligrafkombinat Upravleni︠︡ia po delam Pechati pri SNK TSSR), [between 1930 and 1939]

1 print : lithograph, printed in colours ; sheet 92 x 60.5 cm

Ăger kȯ ve bichăre bolmak islemes︠en︡g, ȯzi︠n︡ge mama sanchdyr. Esli ne jelaesh' byt' slepym, bespomoshchiym, privivaĭ ospu Translation of lettering: If you do not want to be blind and frail, please inoculate smallpox. Turkmenistan Soviet Socialist Republic, Publishing Company of the People's Commission for Sanitary Education

Tirazh 5.000 [print run 5,000].

Wellcome Collection 545742i