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[A liquid-ammunition car, San Francisco, Calif.]

Collection:
Images from the History of Medicine (IHM)
Publication:
[1907 or 1908]
Format:
Still image
Subject(s):
Communicable Disease Control
Plague -- prevention & control
Horses
Rodent Control
San Francisco
United States. Public Health and Marine Hospital Service.
Abstract:
View of a horse-drawn wagon and two health care workers, one standing in the wagon, the other behind it holding a hose; the men are spraying a lodging house in San Francisco's Chintatown with disinfectant for the purpose of killing fleas and other parasites during the plague campaign.
Copyright:
The National Library of Medicine believes this item to be in the public domain. (More information)
Extent:
1 photographic print : 17 x 12 cm.
Provenance:
Donation; Centers for Disease Control; 1983.
Technique:
black and white
NLM Unique ID:
101443620 (See catalog record)
NLM Image ID:
A015957
Permanent Link:
http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101443620