entrar no cinema na pneumónica de 1918

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A rare reflection of the 1918 influenza pandemic in a movie from that time period: in Daddy-Long-Legs (1919) the mask-wearing crowd scatters when Mary Pickford sneezes. (via Silent Movie GIFs on Twitter)

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  • Patrícia Martins Marcos You would probably be interested in Nancy Tomes work on changes to female dressing (e.g. public campaigns advocating shorter skirts) because of germs 🦠 and the need to maintain a safer, cleaner home). It’s mostly around the TB epidemics, if I recall her book correctly, but still very interesting. (Ref. The Gospel of Germs, although there are some shorter articles on this too).