Primary Source Spotlight: Disease
Select primary sources
- Anthony Fauci, MD, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of the National Institutes of Health photograph
- Anti-malaria educational play put on by youngsters dealing with the treatment of the disease photograph
- Ayer’s sarsaparilla, for all blood diseases, cures others, will cure you
- Cheap lodging-houses as nests of disease illustration
- Complete privy properly protected to prevent flies from spreading diseases photograph
- Diagnosing diseases with the camera photograph
- Doctor’s inspection of suspects for skin diseases, etc. photograph
- Dr. Christie’s Ague Balsam – a sure remedy for ague, fever and all bilious diseases advertisement label
- Ellis Island, Contagious Disease Hospital Isolation Ward I architectural drawings
- Ellis Island, Contagious Disease Hospital Measles Ward G photograph
- Ellis Island, Contagious Disease Hospital Mortuary photographs
- The fly is as deadly as a bomber!! WPA poster
- Graphic chart of work done by the service for contagious diseases
- Isolation unit for contagious diseases at Osceola migratory labor camp photograph
- Men Against Microbes pring, costume design
- Milk truckers do not! pick up milk at farms where there are cases of diphtheria, scarlet fever, infantile paralysis, spinal meningitis, smallpox, typhoid
- Miss Ida F. Butler, American Red Cross Nurse, Hospital for Acute Diseases of Children. Lyons, France photograph
- Normal liver cells, abnormal liver cells that have increased in size, and abnormal liver cells that have decreased in size demonstrate that disease alters cells illustration
- Outwitted by community sanitation WPA poster
- Planned housing fights disease WPA poster
- Prof. L.H. Wilder is assisting in the campaign against disease being waged by the US Public Health Service, by painting greatly enlarged pictures of germ carrying insects photograph
- Public Health Surgeon. Dr. Charles Armstrong, Public Health Surgeon and Specialist on virus diseases photograph
- Scientists assert that all diseases can be prevented by inoculation Puck political cartoon
Primary source sets
- Diphtheria
- Immunizations
- Influenza
- Malaria
- Meningitis
- Polio
- Smallpox
- Tuberculosis
- Typhoid
- Typhus and Dr. Harry Plotz
- Vaccinations
- Yellow Fever
Teaching resources
- Citizen U multidisciplinary civics lessons
- Infectious Diseases, Science Literacy, and Citizen Behavior: Helping Students Make Connections Using Historical Newspaper Articles Teaching with the Library of Congress January 26, 2021
- Timely Connections: Worldwide Health Crisis
- Historic Epidemics TPS-MTSU Newsletter August 2014
- Historic Epidemics Volume II TPS-MTSU Newsletter May 2020
- Researching Epidemics in Chronicling America Newspapers Headlines & Heroes April 16, 2020
- Global Legal Monitor: Epidemics