Special Collections Finding Aids

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Publication Date

8-1-2021

Abstract

The collection comprises a letter book which contains mostly copies of telegrams to and from James D. Plunket, M.D., president of the Tennessee State Board of Health, regarding the presence of yellow fever in Memphis and elsewhere between July and October 1879.

Source Collection

Special Collections Department, University of Memphis Libraries

Keywords

Tennessee. State Board of Health.; Yellow fever--Tennessee--Memphis.

Date

2015 August

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