Influenza Nurses Wearing Masks

November 1918

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Influenza Nurses Wearing Masks
  • Title
  • African American Influenza Nurses Wearing Masks
  • Date
  • November 1918
  • Identifier
  • 20230726-hpicais-0004
  • Source Identifier
  • 202111.1.1.004
  • Description
  • Group portrait of seven African American nurses on a balcony. The nurses worked at the emergency Influenza hospital on Superior Street in Duquesne, Pa. during the epidemic in 1918. The women are shown wearing protective masks to protect themselves from the flu. These hospital workers played an incredibly critical role in the community's fight against influenza. Photographs may include images of: Julia Craig, Mrs. A. H. Buton, Mrs. Spencer Bell, Sadie Bond, Ethel Cole, and Etta Stokes.
  • Type
  • still image
  • Genre
  • photographs
    photographic prints
    gelatin silver prints
  • Subject
  • African American nurses
    Nurses, Black
    Nurses
    Influenza--Hospitals--Employees
    Medical personnel
    Personal protective equipment
  • Geographic Subjects
  • Duquesne (Pa.)
  • Source
  • African American Influenza Nurses Photographs, 1918
  • Contributor
  • University of Pittsburgh
  • Collection
  • Emergency Influenza Hospital Nurses (Duquesne, Pa.) Photographs
  • Rights Information
  • No Copyright - United States. The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information.
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