Secrets of NYC
✉️ The Lost Pneumatic Tube System at the NYSE
Long before fiber optics and wireless networks, bursts of compressed air kept Wall Street moving.
Spanish Flu
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Arts & Culture
The Anti-Mask League of 1919: The Cultural Battle of an Enduring Pandemic
A clipping from the San Francisco Chronicle on January 25, 1919. The San Francisco Chronicle. On the morning of January
Arts & Culture
12 Prior Epidemics That Plagued New York
A typist wearing a flu mask in New York City in October 1918. Photo from National Archive Ever since New
Arts & Culture
How NYC Survived the 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic
In 1918, 102 years before the rise of the coronavirus, the “Spanish Flu” pandemic began to kill millions of people