File:1918 at Spanish Flu Ward Walter Reed (cropped).jpg
Description1918 at Spanish Flu Ward Walter Reed (cropped).jpg
"Walter Reed Hospital Flu Ward".
Photo of Walter Reed Hospital, Washington, D.C., during the great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 - 1919, also known as the "Spanish Flu". Patients are set up in rows of beds on an open gallery, seperated by hung sheets. A nurse wears a cloth mask over her nose and mouth.
Date
Not dated, probably during the height of the epidemic, 1918 - 1919
Source
Photo by Harris & Ewing via Library of Congress website at ; converted from TIFF to .jpg and border cropped before upload
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