Street Cleaner in Mask
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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
Provenance:
Title: Mask worn to check Influenza spread
Date: Oct 21, 1918
Creator: Unknown
Provenance:
Still Image Item Type Metadata
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
Reproduced as Image 29 of 42 from https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/The-Spanish-flu-100-years-later-May-we-never-13416907.php
Collection
Citation
“Street Cleaner in Mask,” Skidmore Saratoga Memory Project, accessed January 31, 2025, https://ssmp.skidmore.edu/document/1298.
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