Friday, July 03, 2020

MASKS OF NEW YORK


5 comments:

Roger Smith said...

Were these older photos of the 1917-1918 flu pandemic?

Chic Silber said...


Yup

Chic Silber said...


I wonder what that LEND

sign was referring too

Roger Smith said...

LEND may refer to war loans for WWI, which we got into in 1917. In WWII we had War Bond Drives, many headed up by our top celebrities. It was quite the thing then to have your War Bond signed by the big names. Dave Price knew a man with Bonds signed by Clyde Beatty.

Chic Silber said...


Might that have referred

to the Lend Lease Plan