Cops Ticketed New Yorkers For Not Covering Coughs During Past Epidemic
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People removed from a ship which reported an outbreak of smallpox during the Atlantic crossing, taken by Alice Austen in 1896
Tips to prevent influenza. Oct. 18, 1918
Buildings on one of the quarantine islands, Hoffman, or Swinburne located off the coast of Staten Island, taken by Alice Austen in 1896
Typist wearing mask, New York City, October 16, 1918. (Courtesy of The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration)
New York City street cleaner who heeded the Health Boards admonition to wear gauze masks. They warned it was, "Better be ridiculous, than dead," during the influenza epidemic, Oct. 1918
Letter carrier in New York City wearing a gauze mask to avoid catching influenza. Oct. 16, 1918
Likely a dining room for immigrants held on one of the quarantine islands, Hoffman or Swinburne, located off the coast of Staten Island, taken by Alice Austen in 1896
Immigrants held on one of the quarantine islands, Hoffman, or Swinburne located off the coast of Staten Island, taken by Alice Austen in 1896