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The 1918 influenza pandemic in Orange County

The autumn of 1918 in the county and at the university, where the epidemic met a campus full of Student Army Training Corps recruits.

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A record of the war activities in Orange County, North Carolina, 1917-1919

Cameron, Annie Sutton · 2002 · Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Compiled by Annie Sutton Cameron, Historian for Orange County Council of Defense, in 1919 at the request of J.S. Webb, chair of the county Council of Defense. Cameron's history covers the Council of Defense and the Home…

A Record of the War Activities in Orange County, North Carolina. 1917-1919

Cameron, Annie Sutton · 1917 · Transcript of the manuscript, UNC-Chapel Hill, Southern Historical Collection

A Record of the War Activities in Orange County, North Carolina. 1917-1919

Cameron, Annie Sutton · 1917 · Transcript of the manuscript, UNC-Chapel Hill, Southern Historical Collection

Papers,

Newell, Leone Burns · 1913

Personal letters from Dr. … Topics include personal matters, changes in the medical department of the university, and an influenza epidemic at the university, 1919.

Leonidas Polk Denmark Family Papers

Denmark, Leonidas Polk · 1861

Leonidas Polk Denmark (1892-1964) was the grandson of Colonel Leonidas Lafayette Polk (1837-1892). Leonidas Lafayette Polk's second daughter, Juanita ["Neta"], married James W. Denmark. The Denmark's three children were…

Fire & Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase

Covington, Howard E., Jr. · 2018 · UNC Press

Copy in the Chapel Hill Historical Society's reference library (University of North Carolina).

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Fred Pharr oral history interview, 1993 January 22

Pharr, Fred C., 1899-1996 · 1993

Fred "Chuck" Pharr discusses attending UNC Chapel Hill from 1918-1922 and memories from his life in Charlotte, North Carolina. Mr. Pharr talks about his ROTC training in college and eventual deployment in both world war…

Graham, Edward Kidder: photographs (Chapel Hill Historical Society)

1897

2 photographs in the Society's UNC Faculty and Administration binder: Portrait of acting UNC President Edward Kidder Graham; UNC President Edward Kidder Graham posed with Judge Harry Groves and former US President Willi…

Graham, Edward Kidder, Inauguration of (Chapel Hill Historical Society vertical file)

Folder in the UNC series of the Society's vertical files (box 35): published Materials: "The Function of the State University".

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  1. Influenza epidemic strikes Chapel Hill Spanish influenza swept the University in early October 1918, putting the campus and its student soldiers under a three-week quarantine. By October 23 about 30…DigitalNC: The Tar Heel, October 23, 1918, page 1

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