Unknown Masked Individuals at Stewart & Holmes Wholesale Drugstore

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During the Influenza Pandemic of 1918, Seattle citizens were mandated by the health commission to wear gauze masks in public to help stop the spread of the disease. These Seattle residents pose outside of a drugstore where the masks were sold.

Repository
University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division.
Source
http://digitalcollections.lib.washington.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/social/id/357/rec/20
Order Number SOC0396

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