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St. Louis Red Cross Motor Corps personnel wear masks as they hold stretchers next to ambulances in preparation for victims of the influenza epidemic in October 1918.
St. Louis Red Cross Motor Corps personnel wear masks as they hold stretchers next to ambulances in preparation for victims of the influenza epidemic in October 1918.
In this 1918 photograph, influenza victims crowd into an emergency hospital at Camp Funston, a subdivision of Fort Riley in Kansas.
In this 1918 photograph, influenza victims crowd into an emergency hospital at Camp Funston, a subdivision of Fort Riley in Kansas.
Volunteers wearing gauze masks at a Cincinnati street kitchen serve food to children of families afflicted by the worldwide flu epidemic of the 1918-19 winter. Masks were the order of the day, worn by just about anybody who had to get out in public.
Volunteers wearing gauze masks at a Cincinnati street kitchen serve food to children of families afflicted by the worldwide flu epidemic of the 1918-19 winter. Masks were the order of the day, worn by just about anybody who had to get out in public.
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 their ambulance, Saint Louis, Missouri, October 1918.
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 their ambulance, Saint Louis, Missouri, October 1918.
Volunteer nurses from the American Red Cross tend to influenza patients in the Oakland Municipal Auditorium, used as a temporary hospital, in 1918,
Volunteer nurses from the American Red Cross tend to influenza patients in the Oakland Municipal Auditorium, used as a temporary hospital, in 1918,
As protection against the influenza virus, men are seen gargling with salt and water after a day spent working in the War Garden at Camp Dix, New Jersey, September 1918. This was a preventative measure against the influenza epidemic that had spread to army camps.
As protection against the influenza virus, men are seen gargling with salt and water after a day spent working in the War Garden at Camp Dix, New Jersey, September 1918. This was a preventative measure against the influenza epidemic that had spread to army camps.
D. H. Heide, Dr. John Dill Robertson, C. A. Alling, and Lucius Tetar pose in Dill Robertson's health department office in this undated photo. Dill Robertson, seated, was Chicago's health commissioner during the 1918 influenza pandemic that killed thousands of Chicagoans.
D. H. Heide, Dr. John Dill Robertson, C. A. Alling, and Lucius Tetar pose in Dill Robertson’s health department office in this undated photo. Dill Robertson, seated, was Chicago’s health commissioner during the 1918 influenza pandemic that killed thousands of Chicagoans.