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By Mira Shetty, University Archives Summer Research Fellow, 2018, with J.J. Ahern

Armstrong, James F. “Philadelphia, Nurses, and the Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918.” Naval History and Heritage Command. 7 April 2015.

“Catalogue of the University of Pennsylvania.” April 1919. Pp. 9, 24-25.

“Forty-Eighth Annual Report of Presbyterian Hospital in Philadelphia.” 21 January 1919. Pp. 31, 94-95.

“Forty-Fifth Annual Report of the Board of Managers of the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.” Innes and Sons. 1919. Pp. 24-26.

Gammon, Katharine. “Flu Forward 1918 | 2018.” Penn Medicine Magazine. Winter 2018. Penn Medicine.

Higgins, James E. “A Lost History: Writing the Influenza Epidemic in Pennsylvania, 1918-1922.” Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies. Volume 85, Number 3, 2018. Pp. 394-405. Project MUSE.

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Lynch, Eileen A. “The Flu of 1918.” The Pennsylvania Gazette. November/December 1998. Pp. 28-33.

“Presbyterian Medical Center Trustees Minutes No. 11.” October 1918-January 1919. Pp. 255-287.

“Report from Household Committee to Board of Trustees.” October 1918-January 1919. Pp. 1-4.

“The Alumni Register.” Volume XXI. December 1918. The General Alumni Society of the University of Pennsylvania. Pp. 169-171.

The Daily Pennsylvanian [Philadelphia, PA], 30 September 1918-11 October 1919.

Vergano, Dan. “1918 Flu Pandemic That Killed 50 Million Originated in China, Historians Say.” 24 January 2014. National Geographic.

Wirth, Thomas. “Influenza (“Spanish Flu” Pandemic, 1918-19).” The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia. University of Pennsylvania Press. 2011.

Wirth, Thomas. “Urban Neglect: The Environment, Public Health, and Influenza in Philadelphia, 1915-1919.” Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies, The Pennsylvania Historical Association. Volume 73, Number 3, pp. 316-342. Summer 2006.