[Map of unidentified town illustrating the yellow fever epidemic of 1878]
1878 Yellow Fever epidemic
[National Yellow Fever Commission ?]
unidentified
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.
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.