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File:Emergency hospital during Influenza epidemic, Camp Funston, Kansas - NCP 1603.jpg

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Emergency hospital during influenza epidemic, Camp Funston, Kansas.
Emergency hospital during influenza epidemic (NCP 1603), National Museum of Health and Medicine.
Description: Beds with patients in an emergency hospital in Camp Funston, Kansas, in the midst of the influenza epidemic. The flu struck while America was at war, and was transported across the Atlantic on troop ships.
Date: circa 1918
Photo ID: NCP 1603
Source Collection: OHA 250: New Contributed Photographs Collection, Otis Historical Archives, National Museum of Health and Medicine.
Rights: No known restrictions upon publication, physical copy retained by the National Museum of Health and Medicine. Publication and high resolution requests should be directed to NMHM (www.medicalmuseum.mil).


This is our most-requested flu photograph. It may be on another or our Flickr pages.
Date circa 1918
date QS:P,+1918-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
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Emergency hospital during influenza epidemic (NCP 1603), National Museum of Health and Medicine.

https://www.buckscountycouriertimes.com/news/20190923/mxfctter-museum-to-mark-historic-influenza-pandemic/1
Author Otis Historical Archives, National Museum of Health and Medicine
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A hospital in Kansas during the Spanish flu epidemic in 1918.

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