1-Two Red Cross nurses with a person on a stretcher during a demonstration at the Red Cross Emergency Ambulance Station during the influenza pandemic of 1918-1920, Washington DC, 1918.
2-Doctors, army officers, and reporters wear surgical gowns and masks while making a tour of a hospital to observe Spanish influenza treatment of patients. The poster by E.M. Ashe behind them reads, Buy Bonds to Your Utmost
3-St. Louis Red Cross Motor Corps on duty during the American Influenza epidemic. 1918.
4-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 best way of curbing the epidemic. Patients are required to live in these camps until cured.
5-Flu research being conducted at Great Lakes Naval Training Station.
6-Japanese school girls wear protective masks to guard against the influenza outbreak.
7-Rinolein, flu and cold medicine. Press campaign, widespread in the years of the Spanish flu pandemic, illustration by Achille Mauzan, Italy, Turin 1920
8-Prepared for more flu cases, Prof. Charles Bowman, acting health officer at University of Illinois, checking over 336 hospital cots in ice rink.
9-30th September 1957 A pupil at the Highbury Quadrant Junior School, Islington, London, having her daily gargle to keep a 'flu virus at bay
10-An unidentified photo from a story concerning the flu vaccine.
11-An unidentified photo from a story concerning the influenza epidemic
12-View of a health warning notice about influenza, from the Anti-Tuberculosis League,
13-5th December 1938 Children of Danygraig nursery school, Swansea, gargling as a precaution against flu in winter weather.
14- Film kiss with protective mask to prevent infection during a flu epidemic in Hollywood. Photography. 1937.
15-Two women wearing flu masks during a flu epidemic in 1929.
16-Red Cross workers of Boston, Massachussetts remove bundles of masks designated for American soldiers, while other nurses are busy making them, March 1919. (
17-A man spraying the top of a bus with an anti-flu virus during an epidemic which followed World War I
18-Flu research being conducted at Great Lakes Naval Training Station.
19-Young woman peeling potato in kitchen wearing surgical mask as a prophylactic measure during influenza (flu) outbreak.
20- During the Spanish Flu pandemic, the Oakland Civic Auditorium was converted into a makeshift infirmary. This photo shows the women's ward. Stage scenery was used to separate the men's ward. Most than 500 people died in less than 60 day
A Daily Mirror cartoonist captures the confusion over public health messages
A man sprays a bus of the London General Omnibus Co, with anti-flu preparation in March 1920.
A 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 York Health Board, it is 'Better be ridiculous, than dead'.
A telephone operator with protective gauze
Anti-Scratch Machine Corona propaganda in 1924
A photo of a flu mask touted by Popular Science Magazine during the 1918 pandemic. It has a hole for smoking - but not for exhaling the smoke. Popular Science was satirizing the use of masks, which they said were scientifically ineffective.
baseball players, one batting & one catching, with umpire standing behind plate, wearing masks which they thought would keep them from getting flu during influenza epidemic of 1918
Court is held outdoors in a park due to the epidemic, San Francisco, 1918
Hairdressers took precautions to curb infection
The congregation praying on the steps of the Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Assumption, where they gathered to hear Mass and pray during the influenza epidemic, San Francisco, California.
These surprisingly relevant vintage ads show how officials tried to convince people to wear masks after many refused during the 1918 flu pandemic
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 War I, c. 1918.
Women wear cloth surgical-style masks to protect against influenza
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