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Making Anti-Influenza Masks
Credit: National Archives and Records Administration
Created: ca. 1918–1919
Medium: Photographic print

Making Anti-Influenza Masks

Red 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. 

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Virginia Humanities acknowledges the Monacan Nation, the original people of the land and waters of our home in Charlottesville, Virginia.


We invite you to learn more about Indians in Virginia in our Encyclopedia Virginia.