This photo was taken during the 1930s California smallpox outbreak and shows a young girl with her dog as her mother stands inside of the door. The home is marked for the small pox quarantine. Photo by Joe Rothschild.
This historic photograph, captured prior to 1967, depicts what was the former Communicable Disease Center’s (CDC) Plague Laboratory, located in San Francisco, California. The CDC was a branch of the U.S. Public Health Service (PHS), which was a branch of the former Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW). Retaining its acronym, in 1970 the CDC was renamed to the Center for Disease Control, and in 1979, HEW was renamed the Department of Health and Human Services.
