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Influenza Nurses

November 1918

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Influenza Nurses
  • Title
  • African American Influenza Nurses
  • Date
  • November 1918
  • Identifier
  • 20230726-hpicais-0005
  • Source Identifier
  • 202111.1.1.005
  • Description
  • Group portrait of eight African American nurses on a balcony. The nurses worked at the emergency Influenza hospital in Duquesne, Pa. during the epidemic in 1918. These women hospital workers played an incredibly critical role in the community's fight against influenza. Photographs may include images of: Julia Craig, Mrs. A. H. Buton, Mrs. Spencer Bell, Sadie Bond, Ethel Cole, and Etta Stokes.
  • Type
  • still image
  • Genre
  • photographs
    photographic prints
    gelatin silver prints
  • Subject
  • African American nurses
    Nurses, Black
    Nurses
    Influenza--Hospitals--Employees
    Medical personnel
  • Geographic Subjects
  • Duquesne (Pa.)
  • Source
  • African American Influenza Nurses Photographs, 1918
  • Contributor
  • University of Pittsburgh
  • Collection
  • Emergency Influenza Hospital Nurses (Duquesne, Pa.) Photographs
  • Rights Information
  • No Copyright - United States. The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information.
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