In the fall of 1918, seven young people were photographed wearing masks lined up near a railroad track in Mill […]
Right All the Way Through: Dr. Minerva Goodman and the Stockton Mask Debate during the 1918-1919 Influenza Epidemic
During the 1918-19 influenza epidemic, Stockton, California, adopted a mask ordinance three times, totalling more than seventy days. In late […]
“All the World’s a Harem”: Perceptions of Masked Women during the 1918–1919 Flu Pandemic
Carlotta, with the drooping mouth; Esther, with the too-tilted nose, and Mary, the colleen with brown freckles, are taking full […]
