Sunday, March 29, 2020

Past Meets Present


Came across this haunting image of a nurse during the Influenza Epidemic of 1918.
The similarity of preventative advice is also striking.



Edvard Munch
Self-Portrait with the Spanish Flu 1919




I'm reading Katherine Anne Porter's short story that takes place in in Denver, Colorado during the influenza epidemic of 1918.  Porter contracted the flu while living in Denver where she wrote for The Rocky Mountain News 

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