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Images from the 1918 Influenza Epidemic

1918 Influenza Epidemic Finding Aid

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Emergency Hospital NCP 1310 - Officers and nurses, X Section, Base Hospital, Camp Jackson, S.C. Emergency hospital during influenza epidemic, Sept. and Oct. 1918.

Emergency Hospital NCP 1603 - Emergency hospital during influenza epidemic, Camp Funston, Kansas.
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Army Camp Hospital #45 Reeve 14682 - U.S. Army Camp Hospital No. 45, Aix-Les-Bains, France, Influenza Ward No. 1.
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Army Field Hospital #29 Reeve 15183 - U.S. Army Field Hospital No. 29, Hollerich, Luxembourg, Interior View - Influenza Ward.
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Embarkation Camp, France Reeve 15663 - Embarkation Camp, Genicart, France, Flu and Pneumonia Innoculation being administered.


Embarkation Camp, France Reeve 15942 - Embarkation Camp, Bordeaux, France, Funeral of Soldier who Died of Influenza, February 22, 1919

Embarkation Camp, France Reeve 15943 Embarkation Camp, Bordeaux, France, View of Auto Carrying Soldier who Died from Influenza.

Embarkation Camp, France Reeve 15943a - Embarkation Camp, Bordeaux, France, View of Auto Carrying Soldier who Died from Influenza.

Preventive treatment, spraying throat Reeve 33986 - Preventive treatment against influenza, spraying throat. A.R.C. (American Red Cross). Love Field, Texas, 11/6/18.

Reeve 2707- Sanitation, Measles, Influenza, Pneumonia, Camp Beauregard (Graph). Reeve 2707- Sanitation, Measles, Influenza, Pneumonia, Camp Beauregard (Graph).

Reeve 2709- Sanitation, Influenza, Epidemic (Graph). Reeve 2709- Sanitation, Influenza, Epidemic (Graph).

Reeve 2952- Sanitation: Age Distribution of Influenza and Pneumonia, Deaths at Boston During Sept.-Oct.-Nov. 1918 (Graph). Reeve 2952- Sanitation: Age Distribution of Influenza and Pneumonia, Deaths at Boston During Sept.-Oct.-Nov. 1918 (Graph).

Reeve 2960- Sanitation: Age Distribution of Death from Influenza and Pneumonia at Boston, Sept.- Oct.-Nov. 1912-16 (Graph). Reeve 2960- Sanitation: Age Distribution of Death from Influenza and Pneumonia at Boston, Sept.- Oct.-Nov. 1912-16 (Graph).

Reeve 3141- Sanitation, Excess Mortality in U.S. Cities During Influenza Epidemic, 1918-19 (Chart). Reeve 3141- Sanitation, Excess Mortality in U.S. Cities During Influenza Epidemic, 1918-19 (Chart).

Reeve 3143- Sanitation, Influenza Pandemic, Mortality in America and Europe 1918 and 1919 (Chart). Reeve 3143- Sanitation, Influenza Pandemic, Mortality in America and Europe 1918 and 1919 (Chart).

Reeve 3164- Sanitation, Influenza Pandemic, Mortality in America and Europe 1918 and 1919 (Chart). Reeve 3164- Sanitation, Influenza Pandemic, Mortality in America and Europe 1918 and 1919 (Chart).

Reeve 3203- Sanitation, Influenza, Pneumonia, Age Distribution, 1918 (Chart). Reeve 3203- Sanitation, Influenza, Pneumonia, Age Distribution, 1918 (Chart).

Reeve 3204- Sanitation, Influenza, Mortality Deaths Age Distribution. Reeve 3204- Sanitation, Influenza, Mortality Deaths Age Distribution.

Preserved specimens similar to these have enabled scientists at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology to work on genetically decoding the influenza virus from the World War I epidemic:

Reeve 42859- Lung. Influenza, Bronchopneumonia. Inter-lobar pleurisy. Reeve 42859- Lung. Influenza, Bronchopneumonia. Inter-lobar pleurisy.

Reeve 42870- Lung. Bronchopneumonia. Influenza. Reeve 42870- Lung. Bronchopneumonia. Influenza.

Lungs of Pvt HD CauvelLungs of Pvt HD Cauvel, MDBH 76, died October 8, 1918 from influenza and pneumonia. "The picture shows the red lung type of pneumonia, a type of pneumonia which was peculiar to the pandemic." Artwork by Lt. William Schwarz of the Army Medical Museum.

Lungs of Pvt HD Cauvel Lungs of Pvt HD Cauvel, MDBH 76, died October 8, 1918 from influenza and pneumonia. "The picture shows the red lung type of pneumonia, a type of pneumonia which was peculiar to the pandemic." Artwork by Lt. William Schwarz of the Army Medical Museum.