From the article this photo probably came from (the photo is in this article)
One image, dating from the years when Spanish flu rampaged across the United States, shows a unknown family of six, in Dublin, California, all wearing the standard mask of the time: "white and fastened around the head," as Catharine Arnold writes in Pandemic 1918: Eyewitness Accounts from the Greatest Medical Holocaust in Modern History. A behatted woman holds a bouquet of flowers. And the family patriarch holds a tense-looking masked cat under his arm, like a loaf of bread. Faint wrinkles under the cat's right ear show where the gauze is bunching up, and a faint shadow marks the spot of its triangular nose.
Wiamso on April 8th, 2021 at 19:15 UTC »
Mittens must be kept sfe
Yanceg on April 8th, 2021 at 21:38 UTC »
My great uncle survived the fronts of WW1 in his early 20s. Came home and died from the Spanish Flu
davidjschloss on April 8th, 2021 at 22:05 UTC »
From the article this photo probably came from (the photo is in this article)
One image, dating from the years when Spanish flu rampaged across the United States, shows a unknown family of six, in Dublin, California, all wearing the standard mask of the time: "white and fastened around the head," as Catharine Arnold writes in Pandemic 1918: Eyewitness Accounts from the Greatest Medical Holocaust in Modern History. A behatted woman holds a bouquet of flowers. And the family patriarch holds a tense-looking masked cat under his arm, like a loaf of bread. Faint wrinkles under the cat's right ear show where the gauze is bunching up, and a faint shadow marks the spot of its triangular nose.