COLONIAL MUTUAL PUBLISHED A SERIES OF BOOKLETS ABOUT HEALTH ISSUES INCLUDING HOW THE INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC WAS MANAGED IN BRUNSWICK, VIC. STRANGE TIMES 2020 – have we been here before? This is one … [Read more...]
Unprecedented #7
STRANGE TIMES 2020 – have we been here before? This is one of a series of posts inspired by the 2020 Covid 19 pandemic. You can also see an article about the ephemera of the Spanish Flu in … [Read more...]
Unprecedented #2 1890s
STRANGE TIMES 2020 - have we been here before? This is one of a series of posts inspired by the 2020 Covid 19 pandemic. You can also see an article about the ephemera of the Spanish Flu in … [Read more...]
Dating the government printer
ALWAYS LOOKING FOR WAYS TO DATE THE UNDATED. This brochure about influenza is undated. A close read only tells us that it is post the 'Russian influenza' pandemic of 1889-90 which arrived … [Read more...]
Unprecedented #0
THE POST FROM ANDREW H'S COLLECTION HAS INSPIRED ED J TO DIG INTO A BOX MARKED QUARANTINE. And he found: An oath of sorts that declares you have not been in contact with any one with the Spanish … [Read more...]