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The past is the future. An open-air barber shop at the University of California during the influenza pandemic in 1919. (Photo: National Archives)
"Wear a mask or go to jail."
First cousins. Joe and Don Sistrunk are going out to sell the weekly paper "Grit." Don's 3 year old brother died from the flu (from Martha Birchfield, great-niece of Joe Sistrunk; photo from Futch family archives given to Mrs. A. Morris who began the Fla. Photo Archives at FSU.)
Policemen stand in a street in Seattle, Washington, wearing protective masks made by the Seattle Chapter of the Red Cross, during the influenza epidemic in 1918. (National Archives)
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