Trinity College and the Influenza Pandemic of 1918

Title

Trinity College and the Influenza Pandemic of 1918

Subject

This archive details some key excerpts from Trinity College's history during the Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and examines how the pandemic was treated by College officials and student publications such as the campus newspaper, the Trinity Tripod.

Description

This archive contains records of College publications, the Trinity Tripod, the Hartford Courant, and other records from the historical annals of Trinity College (Hartford, Connecticut).

Creator

Brendan W. Clark '21, Trinity College History Department

Source

Trinity College Archives, Watkinson Library

Publisher

Trinity College (Hartford, Connecticut)

Date

January 1918-June 1921

Contributor

Brendan W. Clark '21
Trinity College

Rights

Digital reproductions and permission to publish Watkinson materials may be requested by contacting Watkinson staff. With permission of the staff, readers may use their own cameras in the library. Users of materials from the Watkinson Library or the College Archives must accept full legal responsibility for observing the laws of copyright, as well as the laws of libel and invasion of privacy and property rights.

Format

.png, .jpg, .pdf, .word

Language

English

Type

Text, Still Images, College Records

Coverage

Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut
  • Collection: Trinity College and the Influenza Pandemic of 1918
"Spanfluenza Tablets": A Quack Advertisement in the Hartford Courant 
The Hartford Courant , October 19, 1918
"Trinity Men Must Stay on Campus": An Extract from the Hartford Courant
The Hartford Courant, October 9, 1918
"First Sunday Under S.A.T.C.": An Extract from the Trinity Tripod
The Trinity Tripod , October 8, 1918
"Rev. Robert S. Hooper '15": An Extract from the Trinity Tripod 
The Trinity Tripod , October 29, 1918
"Quarantine Lifted": An Extract from the Trinity Tripod
The Trinity Tripod, November 5, 1918
"William J. Hamersley-Secretary of the Board of Fellows": An Extract from the Trinity Tripod 
The Trinity Tripod, October 15, 1918
"Increased Library Attendance": The October Quarantine Forces Students to Study According to the Tripod
The Trinity Tripod, November 19, 1918
"DeMcCarthy Last to be Discharged": An Extract from the Trinity Tripod
The Trinity Tripod, January 14, 1919
"Prominent Physician Dies of Influenza": An Extract from the Trinity Tripod
The Trinity Tripod, April 20, 1920
A Concise History of Trinity College and the 1918 Influenza
Brendan W. Clark '21 , April 5, 2020
Letter from the Rev. Ernest Stires, D.D. '01
Ernest Stires, D.D. '01, May 25, 1920
Portrait of President of the College, Rev. Remsen Brinckerhoff Ogilby
Martin Kennedy (painter), c. 1925
George Huggard (Trinity class of 1920)
President Flavel S. Luther, Trinity College, and unidentified photographer, 1918-1919
"President's Address to the Board": The Year is Marked by "General Unrest"
Trinity College Board of Trustees , June 20, 1919
President's Address to the Board: "A 40% Reduction in the Student Population"
Remsen Brinckerhoff Ogilby; Trinity College Board of Trustees , April 25, 1918
President's Address: "We Have Had Not Epidemics of Any Kind"
Remsen Brinckerhoff Ogilby; Trinity College Board of Trustees , June 17, 1921
"Student Health": Excerpt from the Trinity College Student Handbook, 1916-1917
Trinity College , Academic Year 1916-1917
"Trinity Very Largely Escaped the First Epidemic of Influenza": An Extract from the 1919 S.A.T.C. Bulletin
Trinity College , January 1919
William James Hamersley '09: Obit Pro Patria, An Extract from the 1919 Necrology
Trinity College, 1919
Leroy Austin Ladd '08: Obit Pro Patria, An Extract from the 1919 Necrology
Trinity College , 1919
Paul Roebling '17: Obit Pro Patria, An Extract from the 1919 Necrology
Trinity College , 1919
Lester Hubbard Church '20: Obit Pro Patria, An Extract from the 1919 Necrology
Trinity College, 1919
Aubrey Gordon King '22: Obit Pro Patria, An Extract from the 1919 Necrology
Trinity College , 1919
The Students' Army Training Corps, c. 1918
Trinity College (Hartford, CT), c. 1918
Army S.A.T.C. Group Standing In Front of Northam Towers
Trinity College (Hartford, CT), 1918