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An open book.
Black and white portrait of a white woman.
A typed page.
A typed page.
A book cover.
An open book.
A typed letter.
A typed letter.
A page in a book.
A green and orange map of the Colorado Plateau, United States.
A white man standing leans down while taking blood from a seated Native American man in a hard hat.
A book cover.
A typed letter.
A book cover with an image of a foggy urban street and another image of a crowd seen from a bird's-eye view.
A book cover with black and white film stills.
A book cover with a bird's-eye view of a city skyline surrounded by clouds.
A page from a book with a graph and illustrations of an industrial landscape and the map of the United States.
A book cover with an illustration of a city skyline partially covered in smog.
A pamphlet cover with a blue image of a stream.
A pamphlet cover with an illustration of a man climbing steep steps while covered by smog below.

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A page from a book with a graph and illustrations of an industrial landscape and the map of the United States.

Clean Water is Everybody’s Business, PHS and State Water Pollution Control Agencies, 1950

Some government pamphlets, like this one, used elaborate illustrations and infographics to show the impacts of water pollution.
As cities grew, the need to communicate the dangers of pollution to urban citizens grew as well.

Courtesy National Library of Medicine