Coast Guard crewmen preparing for practice in a surfboat at North Superior Station 1938.

Station North Superior in the 1920s. At the time, it was known as the Coast Guard Station at Grand Marais.

Coast Guard surf boat at North Superior station.

A CCC-ID first aid class at Red Lake Agency, 1939.

American Red Cross influenza mask bundles and bag. One cloth bag that contains two bundles of gauze influenza masks. Masks were made by Saint Paul Red Cross volunteers at the request of the United States Army for use in Minnesota training camps and by civic leaders for use by the general population during the Spanish influenza pandemic, 1918–1919.

Image is a poster with guidance on how to prevent the spread of influenza by droplets sprayed from nose and throat, date unknown.

An influenza awareness poster showing a Red Cross nurse with a gauze mask over her nose and mouth, 1918.

“Use the handkerchief and do your bit to protect me!” poster drawn by Clifford Berryman, 1918.

Digital poster created by the Blue Earth County Historical Society that incorporates the text of a notice issued by the Mankato Board of Health on October 12, 1918, in response to the influenza epidemic.