This photo was taken during the second wave of the Spanish Flu in California, 1918.

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image showing This photo was taken during the second wave of the Spanish Flu in California, 1918.

halfkidding on October 4th, 2021 at 19:39 UTC »

And posted on reddit weekly in 2020.

Spartan2470 on October 4th, 2021 at 20:03 UTC »

Here is much higher quality and much less cropped version of this image. Here is the source. Per there:

Title: Locust Avenue, masks on

Series Title: Historical Mill Valley Photographs

Date Created: 1918-11-03

Description: A group of people standing outdoors wearing masks over their mouths. This was probably during the Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918. One of the women has a sign in front of her reading 'Wear a mask or go to jail."

Creator: Coyne, Raymond

tonybotz on October 5th, 2021 at 00:10 UTC »

Can we bring back hats?