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1918 Influenza Photographs from the Smith Scrapbook

1918 Influenza Epidemic Finding Aid

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More Photographs from the 1918 Influenza Epidemic

influenza patients Smith Flu 2: Tent settlement, influenza patients

Convalescent pneumoconiosis Smith Flu 3: Convalescent pneumoconiosis

Military funeral of Lt. Johnson Smith Flu 4: Military funeral of Lt. Johnson who died during the Influenza Epidemic, October 1918

Nurse's Mess, Oct 1919 Smith Flu 5: Nurse's Mess, Oct 1919

Nurse's Mess Smith Flu 6: Nurse's Mess

KPs peelin' spuds Smith Flu 7: KPs peelin' spuds

Lenore stirring the stew Smith Flu 8: Lenore stirring the stew

Lining up for chow Smith Flu 9: Lining up for chow

Mess Line Smith Flu 10: Mess Line

KPs at our mess Smith Flu 11: KPs at our mess

Licking the dish Smith Flu 12: Licking the dish

Field Kitchen Smith Flu 13: Field Kitchen

Lenore and her kitchen Smith Flu 14: Lenore and her kitchen

Dishwashers Smith Flu 15: Dishwashers

Tentville Smith Flu 16: Tentville

Officers' Mess Smith Flu 17: Officers' Mess

Influenza Avenue

Smith Flu 18: Influenza Avenue

Sunset in Flu Village Smith Flu 19: Sunset in Flu Village

One of the tents Smith Flu 20: One of the tents

Tiny Mevois Smith Flu 21: Tiny Mevois, S. Georgiana Lee, Capt. Gissel, Miss Schulte, Miss Rish

Lt. Tucker Smith Flu 22: Lt. Tucker – Tent Street

Second Street Home Smith Flu 23: Second Street Home during the epidemic, nearly one hundred and ten nurses slept in or around this house

Lawley, McNabb, Hantz, LeValle, Venman, Lee

Smith Flu 24: Lawley, McNabb, Hantz, LeValle, Venman, Lee

Cleaning up after the Flu Smith Flu 25: Cleaning up after the Flu