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This map created a few years after the 1793 epidemic helps students to visualize the City as it was during that time. Secondary Sources: 1) Anderson, Laurie Halse.
OCLC:39673413. 1860. Map of Northampton Co. Pennsylvania, by G. M. Hopkins, Jr., published by Smith, Gallup & Co., Phila. 6 parts, 20 x 28 ea. col. ; 148 x 145 cm. Scale 1 5/8 in = 1 mi. County map is surrounded by 36 maps of villages and towns in the county, and 4 drawings of Easton in the corners of the map.
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The Historical Topographic Map Collection, or HTMC, provides a comprehensive digital repository of all scales and all editions of U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) printed topographic maps that is easily discovered, browsed, and downloaded by the public at no cost.
Oct 18, 2022 · American Fevers, American Plagues. How yellow fever outbreaks in the early United States anticipated much of what we lament about the COVID-19 era. A man with severe yellow fever symptoms. From Etienne Pariset and André Mazet’s Observations sur la fièvre jaune, faites à Cadix, en 1819 (Observations on Yellow Fever, Made at Cadiz, in 1819).
Oct 30, 2006 · In 1900, Major Walter Reed, Chief Surgeon of the U.S. Army, led a medical team to Cuba on a mission to investigate yellow fever. For more than two hundred years the disease had terrorized the ...
Apr 8, 2024 · This project includes recommended Pennsylvania historic maps and geospatial datasets from a period of 1800 to present organized by thematic categories of geographic names, landmarks, transportation, hydrography, municipal boundaries, land ownership, elevation, land use/land cover, and remote sensing.
On Sunday, September 1, 1793, Samuel Powel, Speaker of the Pennsylvania Senate, penned a hurried note to Dr. Benjamin Rush, asking his opinion on a spreading “putrid fever” making its way through the city of Philadelphia. A prominent local physician and politician, Dr. Rush was considered the foremost expert on the matter.
