[Map of unidentified town illustrating the yellow fever epidemic of 1878]

Subject

1878 Yellow Fever epidemic

Date
1878 (historical)
Mapmaker
Veazie, H. P.
Publisher

[National Yellow Fever Commission ?]

Place of Publication

unidentified

Accession Number
T0055.1997.0512
Condition
Fair. Was conserved by Texas Conservation Center, Panhandle-Plains Museum, 1982.
Curatorial Notes

should be deaccessioned. Although this was once marked as being a map of Vicksburg; no evidence to support it. Needs further research. See T0055.1997.0455. Other maps, of cities in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee (Vicksburg, Water Valley, Tuscumbia, Milan, Port Gibson, Greenville, Holly Springs, Canton, Decatur, Osyka, Memphis, Brownsville, McComb City, Chattanooga) relating to 1878 yellow fever epidemic found T0055.1997.0455-456, T0055.1997.492, T0055.1997.0494-096, T0055.1997.0505-0508, T0055.1997.0511-012, T0055.1997.0515-0517.

Notes

Dated January 18, 1879. Indicates location (by race) of those who contracted the disease and recovered, those who died, location of first case, those who took refuge in 'the country." Includes names of some of the victims.

Media Type
mounted on archival paper
Size
23 x 31
Storage
c04d05