Nurses in Boston hospitals, equipped to fight influenza #

Baseball players wear masks to prevent the spread of infection during the influenza epidemic of 1918. #

Nurses leaving Blackfriars Depot, Chippendale NSW, Australia, during the flu epidemic, in April of 1919. #

Volunteers wear masks while feeding children of stricken families. #

To prevent as much as possible the spread of influenza, Cincinnati barbers wore masks. Barbers all over the country took this precaution. #

Japanese school girls wear protective masks to guard against the influenza outbreak. #

Members of the Student Army Training Corps wear influenza masks in Portland, Oregon, on October 27, 1918. #

OA telephone operator with protective gauze in 1918 #

Women at work in Red Cross rooms in Seattle, Washington, with influenza masks on #

Policemen in Seattle, Washington, wear masks made by the Seattle Chapter of the Red Cross. #

Corpsmen in caps and gowns are ready to attend patients in the influenza ward of a U.S. Navy hospital, in Mare Island, California, on December 10, 1918. #

New York City conductorettes wear masks, on October 16, 1918. #

An open-air barber shop serves customers during the epidemic at the University of California, Berkeley, 1919. #

In this November 1918 photo, a nurse takes the pulse of a patient in the influenza ward of the Walter Reed hospital in Washington, D.C. #

Red Cross Motor Corps on duty in St. Louis, Missouri, October 1918 #

Patients at a moving-picture show wear masks in Royat, France. #