Children ready for school during the 1918 flu epidemic - Starke
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Persistent URL: floridamemory.com/items/show/8937
Local call number: PR10498
Title: Children ready for school during the 1918 flu epidemic
Date: 1918
Physical descrip: 1 photonegative : b&w ; 3 x 5 in.
Series Title: Print Collections
Repository: State Library and Archives of Florida
500 S. Bronough St., Tallahassee, FL, 32399-0250 USA, Contact: 850.245.6700, [email protected]
Source: Flickr Commons
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Local call number: PR10498
Title: Children ready for school during the 1918 flu epidemic
Date: 1918
Physical descrip: 1 photonegative : b&w ; 3 x 5 in.
Series Title: Print Collections
Repository: State Library and Archives of Florida
500 S. Bronough St., Tallahassee, FL, 32399-0250 USA, Contact: 850.245.6700, [email protected]
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Owner: State Library and Archives of FloridaSource: Flickr Commons
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mbirchfield0001
The boys were first cousins. Don Hoover’s father, Frank Hoover, was a professional photographer. Don’s three year old brother died from the flu and pneumonia in February 1919. Joe Sistrunk sold the weekly paper “Grit,” and he and Don in this photo are going out to sell papers. notes from Martha Birchfield, great-niece of Joe Sistrunk; original photo from Futch family archives provided to Mrs. A. Morris who began the Fla. Photo Archives at FSU.
mikescottnz
Just over a century later we have been wearing masks again with the corona or covid virus going around the planet in 2020
jenny.morros
Amazing history
jeanne.roland
it feels weird to look at this picture knowing that today we have to all wear masks again...
Bilal Bawab
Amazing photograph!! and the history repeat it self.. after a century