COLLECTION
1918 Flu Pandemic Collection Item Info
- Title:
- 1918 Flu Pandemic Collection
- Link:
- https://www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/1918flu/
- Date Created:
- 1910
- Archival Date:
- 1910-1975
- Collection Description:
- In 1918, a virulent strain of influenza affected approximately 500 million individuals worldwide. The disease reached the University of Idaho in October of that year, prompting the university to cancel activities, enact a quarantine, and encourage the use of gauze face masks. The 1918 Flu Pandemic Collection brings together correspondence, reports, news articles, oral histories, and other materials that highlight the local response to the 1918 pandemic.
- Librarian Explanation:
- This digital collection gathers materials related to how students and university leaders at U of I responded to the flu pandemic that coincided with WWI. A variety of primary sources, including newspapers clippings, photographs, personal accounts, and more correspondence provide students with a chance to analyze original records and consider what can be learned from each document.
- Relevant Standard:
- 6-9.WH.6.5 Anaylyze the context of historical events to determine the motivations of people in those events
- Subjects:
- quarantine colleges and universities disease pandemic
- Location:
- Moscow, Idaho
- Latitude:
- 46.72881237
- Longitude:
- -117.0125869
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Language:
- eng
Attribution
- Citation:
- "1918 Flu Pandemic Collection", University of Idaho Library Open Education Portal, University of Idaho Library Digital Collections, https://thecdil.github.io/oep/items/1918-flu-pandemic.html