Photo — “Spanish Flu Family Portrait, c.1920”

Use the photos posted in this feature for writing prompts, warm-up activities, drawing templates or as part of a photo analysis.

Social distancing notwithstanding, the use of face masks to combat Spanish flu was as important 100 years ago as it is today with COVID-19! (Even the family cat is protected!)

Circa 1920. “Flu epidemic.” Images of America : Dublin, by Mike Lynch and the Dublin Heritage Center. Collection of the Online Archive of California. 

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