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Landon Chronicles (1918): Margaret Recalls the Great Flu Epidemic (hour 20, clip 2)

 Digital Record
Identifier: LC20-02

Dates

  • Digitized: 1918

Creator

Summary Note

Margaret shares thoughts about the 1918 flu epidemic which killed 23,000,000 people around the world and 550.000 in the US. She recalls her whole family (except her father) getting the flu, and the steady procession of funerals in her town. (Length 5:39)

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Part of the Wheaton College Archives Repository

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