MEDIA Show Media Credit: National Archives and Records AdministrationCreated: ca. 1918–1919Medium: Photographic printMaking Anti-Influenza MasksRed Cross workers make cloth masks to cover the nose and mouth, a preventative to the spread of the virulent strain of influenza that afflicted the United States and the world in 1918–1919. Red Cross workers made 260,000 masks during the pandemic. FEATURED INInfluenza Pandemic in Virginia, The (1918–1919)