Physicians vaccinating one another with mixed bacterial vaccine, 1918

Physicians vaccinating one another with mixed bacterial vaccine, 1918

Portrait of five doctors, all wearing masks, administering to each other mixed bacterial vaccines in an effort to protect themselves from influenza infection during the 1918 pandemic. Text reads: "Physicians [first two letters missing] Vacnating [sic] each other at C.E [Central Emergency] Hospital."

California State Library, photograph by Hamilton Henry Dobbin