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S[an] F[rancisco] Plague Campaign 1907-8: "Creating an atmosphere." Sprinkling lime

Collection:
Images from the History of Medicine (IHM)
Publication:
[1907 or 1908]
Format:
Still image
Subject(s):
Communicable Disease Control
Plague -- prevention & control
San Francisco
United States. Public Health and Marine Hospital Service.
Abstract:
View of a U.S. Public Health and Marine Hospital Service worker, bent forward at waist, using a trowel to sprinkle chlorinated lime on the ground along the length of a building for the purpose of destroying fleas and preventing the spread of plague during the San Francisco plague campaign.
Copyright:
The National Library of Medicine believes this item to be in the public domain. (More information)
Extent:
1 photographic print : image 11 x 24 cm., on sheet 21 x 25 cm.
Provenance:
Donation; Centers for Disease Control; 1983.
Technique:
black and white
NLM Unique ID:
101443668 (See catalog record)
NLM Image ID:
A015971
Permanent Link:
http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101443668