Two Tuscaloosa Yellow Fever broadsides, 1878

File — Box: SC1850-1899.004, Folder: 3727.01

Scope and Contents

Two broadsides regarding yellow fever in Tuscaloosa. The first, "No Yellow Fever in Tuscaloosa" printed handbill (9" x 6"), informed citizens that although two visitors to Tuscaloosa from Vicksburg had succumbed to the fever, in the following two weeks, no one in Tuscaloosa had fallen ill of the disease. The second, "Mayor's Office" handbill (6 3/4" x 4 1/8"), signed by then mayor O. Berry, informed cities that had enforced a quarantine against Tuscaloosa to rescind that order, as the town was free of disease. Both handbills are signed in type and dated in September 1878.

Dates

1878

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