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Title
[Policeman warning citizen to get a flu mask]
Creator
Dobbin, Hamilton Henry, 1856-1930
Date Created and/or Issued
[1918]
Contributing Institution
California State Library
Collection
California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information
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Description
V2p67a
In PHOTO ALBUM-VAULT: ** fc917.9461 A3, Vol. II, page 67 top left.
This photograph is contained in one of two volumes by Dobbin titled "Album of San Francisco."
Street scene showing police officer wearing flu mask and pointing to well-dressed man who is maskless. A bystander is in a doorway watching. Signs in the windows advertise the flu masks and various war bonds. Text written under photo: "Say! Young Fellow Get a mask or go to jail." Written beneath that is "Flue [sic] Epedemic [sic] 1918 A few scenes about town," referring to all of the photos on pages 66, 67, and 68.
Also have negative no. (4x5 in.): 29,688.
Type
image
Format
Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent
1 photoprint ; 6 1/8 x 4 1/2 in.
Identifier
(C)001381528CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVV-4787
Subject
Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919--California--San Francisco
Police--California--San Francisco
San Francisco (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Group portraits
Place
California
San Francisco
San Francisco (Calif.)

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