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Yellow fever

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Centenary College of Louisiana clippings

 Collection
Identifier: SC-Cent. Misc. Mss. 530
Scope and Contents Collection consists of digital facsimile printouts of newspaper clippings about Centenary College of Louisiana (Jackson, La.). Most were published in the True Democrat (Bayou Sara, La.). Topics include: baseball (1893-1894), football (1896 December), yellow fever epidemic (1898 November), commercial department (1901 June), college cemetery (1908 May), hurricane damage on campus (1909 September), lawsuits concerning college property (1912-1914), discussion about reviving campus as normal...
Dates: 1893 - 1915

Henry Gerard Hall diary

 Collection
Identifier: SC-Shreveport Misc. Mss. 19
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of a photocopy reproduction of Henry Gerard Hall's diary. Hall was a Shreveport attorney, educated at Princeton University in the 1850s, and was later a Caddo Parish judge in the 1870s. His diary (1870 January 1 - 1873 October) includes information on activities in and around Shreveport and is particularly important for its account of the yellow fever epidemic (1873 August - October). Judge Hall himself succumbed to the fever.

Dates: 1870 - 1873

Memory Lane audiocassettes

 Collection
Identifier: SC-Mss. Coll. 47
Scope and Contents

Memory Lane audiocassettes consist of tape recordings. Of the original KRMD radio station collection of recordings, the archives selected several tapes for permanent preservation because the interview was coherent and gave interesting information.

Dates: 1975 - 1977