A fantastic collection of pictures from the deadly 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, including tent hospitals, people wearing preventative masks and a sick child.

On Oct. 20, 1918, the St. Louis health commissioner restricted business hours to 9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. He held down the death toll of the world's worst pandemic by closing public

A fantastic collection of pictures from the deadly 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, including tent hospitals, people wearing preventative masks and a sick child.

Between 1918 and 1919, an outbreak of influenza spread rapidly across the world, and killed more than 50 million—and possibly as many as 100 million—people within 15 months.

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Between 1918 and 1919, an outbreak of influenza spread rapidly across the world, and killed more than 50 million—and possibly as many as 100 million—people within 15 months.

My husband's paternal grandmother and her sister at the piano