Image shows warehouses that were converted to keep the infected people quarantined. The patients are suffering from the 1918 Influenza pandemic, a...
View of victims of the Spanish flu cases as they lie in beads at a barracks hospital on the campus of Colorado Agricultural College, Fort Collins,...
During the influenza epidemic, members of the Red Cross Motor Corps, all in uniform with cloth face masks, pose for a portrait with stretchers behind...
People line outside a store to buy face masks, 1 October 1918, 1918. Found in the Collection of the California State Library. Artist Dobbin, Hamilton...
Demonstration at the Red Cross Emergency Ambulance Station in Washington, D.C., during the influenza pandemic of 1918.
The Oakland Municipal Auditorium is being used as a temporary hospital with volunteer nurses from the American Red Cross tending the sick there...
Nurses care for victims of a Spanish influenza epidemic outdoors amidst canvas tents during an outdoor fresh air cure, Lawrence, Massachusetts.
Nurses care for victims of a Spanish influenza epidemic outdoors amidst canvas tents during an outdoor fresh air cure, Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1918
Spanish Influenza in Army Hospitals - Masks and cubicles used in USA General Hospital No 4, Fort Porter, New York, 1918. Patients' beds are reversed,...
Two men wearing and advocating the use of flu masks in Paris during the Spanish flu epidemic which followed World War I.
Women wear cloth surgical-style masks to protect against influenza. A worldwide influenza epidemic killed 20 million people between 1918 and 1920.
Demonstration at the Red Cross Emergency Ambulance Station in Washington, D.C., during the influenza pandemic of 1918.
During the Spanish Flu pandemic, the Oakland Civic Auditorium was converted into a makeshift infirmary. This photo shows the women's ward. Stage...
New York city street sweeper wears a mask to help check the spread of the influenza epidemic, October 1918. In the view of one official of the New...
Red Cross volunteers assemble gauze face masks to prevent the spread of influenza while wearing masks themselves during the 1918 flu pandemic,...
Group of policemen stand at attention while wearing cloth face masks during the 1918 influenza pandemic, Seattle, Washington, 1918. Note: Image has...
Rules to reduce the spread of Spanish flu posting by the US Public Health Service. Cough or sneeze into your mouth with a handkerchief, avoid crowded...
Two Red Cross nurses with a person on a stretcher during a demonstration at the Red Cross Emergency Ambulance Station during the influenza pandemic...
Nurse checking on a patient at the Walter Reed Hospital Flu Ward during the influenza pandemic, Washington DC, circa 1918.
Members of the Motor Corps of the American Red Cross perform ambulance duty while wearing cloth face masks during the 1918 influenza pandemic, Saint...
Woman wearing a flu mask during the flu epidemic which followed the First World War, 27th February 1919.
Members of the Red Cross Motor Corps, all wearing masks against the further spread of the influenza epidemic, carry a patient on a stretcher into...
Scraps with news of the spread of Spanish flu. Front page of the newspaper San Luis Obispo Daily Telegraph and various clippings from local...
Two Red Cross nurses with a person on a stretcher during a demonstration at the Red Cross Emergency Ambulance Station during the influenza pandemic...
Red Cross volunteers conduct an ambulance demonstration while wearing cloth face masks during the 1918 influenza pandemic, Washington, DC, 1918....
Masked doctors and nurses treat flu patients lying on cots and in outdoor tents at a hospital camp during the influenza epidemic of 1918.
The use of a facemask by Red Cross personnel in the United States helps decrease the spread of the disease, circa 1918.
Chicago, Illinois- Inspecting Chicago street cleaners for Spanish influenza. Officials are wearing gauze masks.
American Ward at Fourth Scottish General Hospital where most Patients are Influenza Cases from incoming Convoys, the Red Cross has a staff of...
In an unspecified barbershop, a man receives a shave from a barber in an influenza mask during the ongoing pandemic, Chicago, Illinois, 1918.
Masked Nurse at the Head of a Row of Beds Treating Patient during Influenza Pandemic, Walter Reed Hospital, Washington DC, USA, Harris & Ewing, 1918.
View of a health warning notice about influenza, from the Anti-Tuberculosis League, posted on the inside of a public transport vehicle , 1918 The...
St. Louis Red Cross Motor Corps on duty during the American Influenza epidemic. 1918. Mask-wearing women holding stretchers at backs of ambulances.
Doctors, army officers, and reporters wear surgical gowns and masks while making a tour of a hospital to observe Spanish influenza treatment of...
Everyone is getting his flu shots and the mayor of Boston is no exception. Mayor Peters of Boston is shown being inoculated by the doctor for the...
The St Louis Red Cross Motor Corps on duty with mask-wearing women holding stretchers at the backs of ambulances during the Influenza epidemic, St...
Women sit and stand at a table while enrolling nurses during an influenza epidemic. Graphs post on the wall show mortality rates.
An American policeman wearing a 'Flu Mask' to protect himself from the outbreak of Spanish flu following World War I.
Doctor innoculates Major Peters of Boston against the Spanish Influenza virus during the epidemic, c. 1918.
Women from the Department of War take 15-minute walks to breathe in fresh air every morning and night to ward off the influenza virus during World...
Red Cross House at U.S. General Hospital, during Influenza Epidemic, New Haven, Connecticut, USA, American National Red Cross Photograph Collection,...
Influenza frequently complicated with pneumonia is prevalent at this time throughout America. Propaganda information poster with precautions to be...
Des opératrices effectuent un bain de bouche désinfectant afin de lutter contre l'épidémie de grippe qui sévit dans une centrale téléphonique, circa...
Red Cross volunteers from the Piedmont Chapter of the Red Cross create masks during the Spanish Flu pandemic.
Demonstration at the Red Cross Emergency Ambulance Station during Influenza Pandemic, Washington DC, USA, National Photo Company, 1918.
Photo shows a scene in the influenza Camp at Lawrence, Maine, where patients are given fresh air treatment. This extreme measure was hit upon as the...
Ambulances carrying wounded Soldiers to Field Hospital No. 1, Neuilly, France, U.S. Army Signal Corps, June 7, 1918.
Precautions taken during Spanish Influenza Epidemic would not permit anyone to ride on Street Cars without wearing a Mask 000 of these were made by...
An emergency flu hospital staffed by US Navy Hospital corpsman has been set up in Civic Center to help care for those stricken by the influenza...
New York Street cleaner wearing mask to check the spread of the influenza epidemic. "Better be ridiculous then dead" is the view of one official....
