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Coronavirus: Texas company designs stickers inspired by Spanish flu posters, donates proceeds Signs and posters were plentiful when the Spanish flu hit worldwide after World War I. A San Antonio company is using signs and slogans from a century ago to remind people to use caution during the coronavirus pandemic. (U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command via AP)

This is a novel way to raise money for food banks during the coronavirus. It’s also an opportunity to learn history about a deadly pandemic that hit the world more than a century ago,

A Texas company has designed stickers inspired by the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 and plan to use the proceeds to help the San Antonio Food Bank, KSAT reported.

A San Antonio design company created and is selling a packet of stickers inspired by the posters used during the Spanish Flu in 1919. DeuxSouth is donating proceeds to the @safoodbank https://t.co/EshqME5XfE — KSAT 12 (@ksatnews) April 22, 2020

Tanner Freeman. of DeuxSouth Creative in San Antonio, said he hopes the stickers will recreate the past and educate people on the current pandemic.

Each packet contains three stickers and sell for $15. Proceeds will go to the food bank, Freeman said.

"I love history, so it's really inspired by the 1918 influenza posters and things that we've kind of lost touch with," Freeman told KSAT.

The stickers had an old-fashioned look to them and advise people to “Spread Good Vibes in Strange Times,” “Stay Home, Save Lives San Antonio” and “Help, Don’t Hoard.”

"I just want a way where people can show their support or for our city," Freeman told KSAT. "Its culture, people and vibrancy."

Freeman admitted the inspiration for the stickers came from the work of artists through the years.

"The arts community as a whole is really what defines value," Freeman told KSAT. "I wouldn't have seen the posters that were made 100 years ago if it wasn't for an artist who made posters. It's all cyclical and it really influences who we were then and who we are now."