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.

 

Extent:

1 photographic print : 17 x 12 cm.

 

Provenance:

Donation; Centers for Disease Control; 1983.

 

Technique:

black and white

 

NLM Unique ID:

101443620

 

NLM Image ID:

A015957

 

Permanent Link:

resource.nlm.nih.gov/101443620