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Guide to Influenza Photographs

The Otis Historical Archives, National Museum of Health and Medicine, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology

This page contains links to some of the photographs, more will be added as they are scanned.

Reeve Collection:

  • 002707  Sanitation, Measles, Influenza, Pneumonia, Camp Beauregard (Graph)
  • 002709  Sanitation, Influenza, Epidemic (Graph)
  • 002720  Hospitals, Influenza, Harvest, Seven Weeks in Camp and City (Chart)
  • 002721  Sanitation, Influenza, Mortality Deaths in U.S. Cities (Chart)
  • 002838  Sanitation, Graph, Influenza, Seven Weeks Influenza Harvest in Camp and City
  • 002872  Sanitation, Pneumonia, Influenza, Measles
  • 002941  Sanitation: Influenza, Morbidity, Mortality, Baltimore, Md. (Chart)
  • 002942  Sanitation: Influenza, Pneumonia (Graph)
  • 002952  Sanitation: Age Distribution of Influenza and Pneumonia, Deaths at Boston During Sept.-Oct.-Nov. 1918 (Graph)
  • 002960  Sanitation: Age Distribution of Death from Influenza and Pneumonia at Boston, Sept.- Oct.-Nov. 1912-16 (Graph)
  • 003032  Sanitation: Influenza and Pneumonia in Army Camps (Chart)
  • 003037b  Sanitation, Influenza Epidemic in U.S. Army Camps (Chart)
  • 003045  Sanitation, Influenza (Chart)
  • 003047  Sanitation, Influenza (Chart)
  • 003048  Sanitation, Influenza (Chart)
  • 003084  Sanitation, Influenza Pandemic, Mortality in Camp and City 1889-90 and 1918 (Chart)
  • 003099  Sanitation, Influenza and Pneumonia in U.S. Army Camps 1918 (Chart)
  • 003141  Sanitation, Excess Mortality in U.S. Cities During Influenza Epidemic, 1918-19 (Chart)
  • 003143  Sanitation, Influenza Pandemic, Mortality in America and Europe 1918 and 1919 (Chart)
  • 003145  Sanitation, Endemic Influenza and Pneumonia, 1900 to 1916 (Chart)
  • 003149  Sanitation, Differences in the Number of Troops Dying from Influenza and Pneumonia in Army Camps (Chart)
  • 003153  Sanitation, Influenza Deaths (Chart)
  • 003164  Sanitation, Admission For Influenza (Chart)
  • 003176  Sanitation, Influenza, Pneumonia, Camp Funston, 1917 and 1918 003178  Sanitation, Influenza Among White and Colored Soldiers Autumn, 1918 (Chart)
  • 003191 Sanitation, Influenza, Pneumonia - 1918, U.S. Army Camps (Chart)
  • 003200  Sanitation, Mortality, Influenza, U.S. Army Camps (Chart)
  • 003201  Sanitation, Mortality, Influenza, 1917-1918-1919 U.S. Cities, South Atlantic, East South Central, West South Central (Chart)
  • 003202  Sanitation, Influenza, Mortality in America and Europe, Pandemic 1889-90 (Graph)
  • 003203  Sanitation, Influenza, Pneumonia, Age Distribution, 1918 (Chart)
  • 003204  Sanitation, Influenza, Mortality Deaths Age Distribution
  • 003207  Sanitation, Influenza  How Effected By Camp Size (Chart)
  • 003211  Sanitation, Influenza, Pneumonia and U.S.A Camp 1918 (Graph)
  • 003212  Sanitation, Influenza, Pneumonia and U.S.A. Camp 1918 (Graph)
  • 003216  Sanitation, Influenza, Epidemic 1918, Symptomatology, (Chart)
  • 003217  Sanitation, Influenza,  Pneumonia in U.S. Army Camps, 1918 (Chart)
  • 003218  Sanitation, Influenza and Pneumonia in U.S. Army Camps, 1918 (Chart)
  • 003219  Sanitation, Influenza and Pneumonia in U.S. Army Camps, 1918 (Chart)
  • 003600  B Influenza in Sputum
  • 013087  Hospital Center, Allerey, France, Influenza Mortality Chart
  • 014682  U.S. Army Camp Hospital No. 45, Aix-Les-Bains, France, Influenza Ward No. 1.015183  U.S. Army Field Hospital No. 29, Hollerich, Luxembourg, Interior View - Influenza Ward.
  • 015663  Embarkation Camp, Genicart, France, Flu and Pneumonia Inoculation Being Administered
  • 015942  Embarkation Camp, Bordeaux, France, Funeral of Soldier who Died of Influenza, Feb. 22, 1919
  • 015943  Embarkation Camp, Bordeaux, France, View of Auto Carrying Soldier who Died from Influenza
  • 015943a  Embarkation Camp, Bordeaux, France, View of Auto Carrying Soldier who Died from Influenza
  • 033986 - Preventive treatment against influenza, spraying throat. A.R.C. (American Red Cross).  Love Field, Tex. 11/6/18

New Contributed Photographs:

  • 1310 - Officers and nurses, X Section, Base Hospital, Camp Jackson, S.C. Emergency hospital during influenza epidemic, Sept. and Oct. 1918.
  • 1603 - Emergency hospital during influenza epidemic, Camp Funston, Kansas.  

Smith Scrapbook, 1917-1939

.33 cubic foot, 1 box.

No finding aid, arranged, inactive, unrestricted.

Scrapbook created by Gertrude Smith documenting her service as a nurse from 1918 to 1921 at Camp Mills, Long Island; Camp Pike, Arkansas; Walter Reed; and Camp Eustis, Virginia. Mostly photographs of nurses, hospitals, and patients, including images of the 1918 influenza epidemic; also newsclippings, correspondence, programs, and a typescript history of Camp Mills.

Smith Scrapbook List of Influenza Related Photographs (numbers are assigned for this finding aid, and are not part of the collection, which includes other photographs)

  • Smith Flu 1:  Tent settlement during the influenza epidemic, mess time
  • Smith Flu 2:  Tent settlement, influenza patients
  • Smith Flu 3:  Convalescent pneumoconiosis
  • Smith Flu 4:  Military funeral of Lt. Johnson who died during the Influenza Epidemic, Oct. 1918
  • Smith Flu 5:  Nurse's Mess, Oct 1919
  • Smith Flu 6:  Nurse's Mess
  • Smith Flu 7:  KPs peelin' spuds
  • Smith Flu 8:  Lenore stirring the stew 
  • Smith Flu 9:  Lining up for chow
  • Smith Flu 10:  Mess Line
  • Smith Flu 11:  KPs at our mess
  • Smith Flu 12:  Licking the dish
  • Smith Flu 13:  Field Kitchen
  • Smith Flu 14:  Lenore and her kitchen
  • Smith Flu 15:  Dishwashers
  • Smith Flu 16:  Tentville
  • Smith Flu 17:  Officers' Mess
  • Smith Flu 18:  Influenza Avenue
  • Smith Flu 19:  Sunset in Flu Village
  • Smith Flu 20:  One of the tents
  • Smith Flu 21:  Tiny Mevois, S. Georgiana Lee, Capt. Gissel, Miss Schulte, Miss Rish
  • Smith Flu 22:  Lt. Tucker – Tent Street
  • Smith Flu 23:  Second Street Home during the epidemic, nearly one hundred and ten nurses slept in or around this house
  • Smith Flu 24:  Lawley, McNabb, Hantz, LeValle, Venman, Lee
  • Smith Flu 25:  Cleaning up after the Flu

 Finding Aid edited December 18, 1998, Heather Lindsay