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Street Cleaner in Mask

1918-MasworktocheckInfluenzaSpread.jpg

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Title

Street Cleaner in Mask

Date

1918

Is Part Of

National Archives , Presented as Image 29 of 42 from Bethany Bump, "The Spanish Flu: 100 Years Later," The Times Union, November 25, 2018. URL: https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/The-Spanish-flu-100-years-later-May-we-never-13416907.php

Description

The original caption on this Oct. 21, 1918, photo read: "Mask worn to check influenza spread. The admonition of the New York Health Board to wear masks to check the spread of influenza epidemic has been headed. 'Better ridiculous than dead' is the view of one official."

Title: Mask worn to check Influenza spread

Date: Oct 21, 1918

Creator: Unknown

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Original Format

b/w photograph

Record Creation Date

6/5/2021

Date Depicted (Display)

October 16, 1918

Abstract (& Historical Note)

Medical Department - Influenza Epidemic 1918 - Masks as protection against influenza. Street cleaner wearing the influenza mask , Underwood & Underwood, N.Y.

URL

National Archives Record: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/45499357

Reproduced as Image 29 of 42 from https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/The-Spanish-flu-100-years-later-May-we-never-13416907.php

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Citation

“Street Cleaner in Mask,” Skidmore Saratoga Memory Project, accessed January 31, 2025, https://ssmp.skidmore.edu/document/1298.

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