Patient receiving a mixed bacterial vaccine, 1918

Patient receiving a mixed bacterial vaccine, 1918

A portrait of a man wearing a hat and flu mask surrounded by six other men wearing mask, one of whom is giving him a mixed bacterial vaccine in an effort to protect them against the flu virus. Text reads: "Patient at C E [Central Emergency] Hospital being vaxinated [sic] against Flu"

California State Library, photograph by Hamilton Henry Dobbin