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"Walter Reed Hospital Flu Ward".

Photo of Walter Reed Hospital, Washington, D.C., during the great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 - 1919, also known as the "Spanish Flu". Patients are set up in rows of beds on an open gallery, seperated by hung sheets. A nurse wears a cloth mask over her nose and mouth.
Date Not dated, probably during the height of the epidemic, 1918 - 1919
Source Photo by Harris & Ewing via Library of Congress website at [1]; converted from TIFF to .jpg and border cropped before upload
Author Harris & Ewing photographers
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