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Title: [Man handing out 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
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Description: V2p66c
In PHOTO ALBUM-VAULT: ** fc917.9461 A3, Vol. II, page 66 second from top left.
This photograph is contained in one of two volumes by Dobbin titled "Album of San Francisco."
Man wearing flu mask sitting at a sidewalk table attempting to give a mask to passersby. All are already wearing one including a policeman. Another pedestrian is carrying a "Crisco" box. Text written under photo: "Say Boss Have one on me."
Also have negative no. (4x5 in.): 29,685.
Type: image
Format: Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photoprint ; 3 1/8 x 4 5/8 in.
Identifier: (C)001381522CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVV-4781
Subject: Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919--California--San Francisco
Masks
San Francisco (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Place: California
San Francisco
San Francisco (Calif.)

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