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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
William James Hamersley '09: Obit Pro Patria, An Extract from the 1919 Necrology
Trinity College, 1919
Trinity College students, march along the Long Walk, in Sunday service
Trinity College and unidentified photographer, 1918
Trinity College students, at Plattsburgh Training Camp (U.S. Army), Plattsburgh, N.Y.
Unidentified photographer, likely employed or hired by United States Army, 1918
Trinity College Alumni Council, promotional material
Trinity College Alumni Council, 1918
The Students' Army Training Corps, c. 1918
Trinity College (Hartford, CT), c. 1918
Robert S. Hooper (Trinity class of 1915)
Unidentified photographer, 1918-1919
President's Address: "We Have Had Not Epidemics of Any Kind"
Remsen Brinckerhoff Ogilby; Trinity College Board of Trustees , June 17, 1921
President's Address to the Board: "A 40% Reduction in the Student Population"
Remsen Brinckerhoff Ogilby; Trinity College Board of Trustees , April 25, 1918
Portrait of President of Trinity College, Flavel Sweeten Luther
Unknown painter, c. 1915
Portrait of President of the College, Rev. Remsen Brinckerhoff Ogilby
Martin Kennedy (painter), c. 1925
Photograph and Newspaper Story about William Duffy and Daniel T. Eaton (took classes at Trinity College, fall 1918)
Trinity Tripod, Trinity College, and unidentified photographer, November 1, 1918-November 5, 1918
Paul Roebling '17: Obit Pro Patria, An Extract from the 1919 Necrology
Trinity College , 1919
Letter from the Rev. Ernest Stires, D.D. '01
Ernest Stires, D.D. '01, May 25, 1920
Lester Church (Trinity class of 1920)
Trinity College, New Haven Journal-Courier, Dorothy E. Church, and unidentified photographers, 1918-1919
Leroy Austin Ladd '08: Obit Pro Patria, An Extract from the 1919 Necrology
Trinity College , 1919
George Huggard (Trinity class of 1920)
President Flavel S. Luther, Trinity College, and unidentified photographer, 1918-1919
George Halle (Trinity class of 1919)
Trinity College, Harry Halle, and unidentified photographer, 1918-1919
Colonel Calvin Cowles (front row), Army S.A.T.C. staff officers (2nd Lt. James F. Lucey, 2nd Lt. Frederick Bauer, 2nd Lt. Lewis E. Crook, 2nd Lt. John E. Buck), and Trinity College President Flavel S. Luther (second from right, middle row).
W.F. Miller and Company, 1918
Aubrey Gordon King '22: Obit Pro Patria, An Extract from the 1919 Necrology
Trinity College , 1919
Aubrey G. King (Trinity class of 1922)
Trinity College and unidentified photographer, 1918-1919
Arthur H. Wright (Trinity class of 1918)
Trinity College and unidentified photographer, 1918-1919
Army S.A.T.C. Group Standing In Front of Northam Towers
Trinity College (Hartford, CT), 1918
Lester Hubbard Church '20: Obit Pro Patria, An Extract from the 1919 Necrology
Trinity College, 1919
A Concise History of Trinity College and the 1918 Influenza
Brendan W. Clark '21 , April 5, 2020
"William J. Hamersley-Secretary of the Board of Fellows": An Extract from the Trinity Tripod 
The Trinity Tripod, October 15, 1918