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1918 flu epidemic [picture] : the Oakland Municipal Auditorium in use as a temporary hospital

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Title: 1918 flu epidemic [picture] : the Oakland Municipal Auditorium in use as a temporary hospital
Creator: Rogers, Edward A. "Doc," 1873-1960
Date Created and/or Issued: 1918
Publication Information: Oakland Public Library
Oakland Tribune
Contributing Institution: Oakland Public Library, Oakland History Center
Collection: Selections from the Collections of the Oakland History Center
Rights Information: Public domain
Material is in the public domain. No restrictions on use.
Description: The photograph depicts volunteer nurses from the American Red Cross tending influenza sufferers in the Oakland Auditorium during the influenza pandemic of 1918. From the Joseph R. Knowland collection at the Oakland History Room, Oakland Public Library. Number in collection : 277.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph : negative. b&w ; 10 x 13 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt3q2nc9rt
copl_058
Knowland Neg. 277
Subject: Influenza epidemic, 1918-1919 - California - Oakland - Pictorial works
Nurses - History - Pictorial works
Influenza - Treatment - California - Oakland - Pictorial works
Municipal Auditorium (Oakland, Calif.) - Pictorial works
American Red Cross - History - Pictorial works
Place: Oakland (Calif.) - History - Pictorial works.
Oakland (Calif.) - Buildings, structures, etc. - Pictorial works.

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