Description: A Belgian Advertising Poster (measures 11 3/4" x 15 3/4" [30 x 40 cm]) L'Insectoline, the circa 1940s Belgian poster advertising a D.D.T. insecticide product. Note that D.D.T. (Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane) was first synthesized in 1874, but its ability to kill insects was not discovered until 1939. It was widely used in World War II to kill mosquitoes to protect soldiers and civilians, and it 1945, it was first sold publicly in the United States. Right from the start, people worried about its possible harmful effects on humans (especially its connection to cancer), but it was not until the 1962 book "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson, when public awareness grew drastically, and over the next decade, D.D.T. was banned almost everywhere. But this great Belgian poster shows a young child delightfully spraying D.D.T., blissfully unaware of the danger to himself and others!
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Location: Stockton, California
End Time: 2025-02-02T00:36:56.000Z
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