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Exploring the 1918 Influenza Pandemic with the State Library’s Digital Collections

Exploring the 1918 Influenza Pandemic with the State Library’s Digital Collections

In 1918, while Washingtonians were anxiously awaiting for their boys to come home near the end of WWI, reports were coming over from Europe about soldiers dying from a mysterious Spanish Influenza. Reports of “la grippe,” the “flu,” and “pneumonia,” the epidemic was caused by a strain of Pfeiffer’s Bacillus, named after the epidemiologist who discovered it in 1892. By mid-September, before the war was over, it had reached the shores of Washington and at least 23 other states. Warnings…

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State Library’s digital newspaper webpage revamped

State Library’s digital newspaper webpage revamped

A collection of bookmarks for Washington Digital Newspapers. (Images courtesy of Shawn Schollmeyer) Many history and newspaper buffs and students are fans of the State Library’s digital newspaper collections, which feature digitized versions of many Washington newspapers whose editions were published more than a century ago. The latest “news” on the newspaper collections is the merging of two existing collections into a new one called “Washington Digital Newspapers,” which will give the public easier, full-text search (move over, Google!) access…

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