"Almost Hopeless in the Wake of the Storm": The 1918 Spanish Flu Epidemic in Oklahoma Metadata

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Title

  • Main Title "Almost Hopeless in the Wake of the Storm": The 1918 Spanish Flu Epidemic in Oklahoma
  • Serial Title Chronicles of Oklahoma

Creator

  • Author: Sellars, Nigel Anthony
    Creator Type: Personal

Contributor

  • Editor: Blochowiak, Mary Ann
    Contributor Type: Personal
  • Editor: Armstrong, Connie G.
    Contributor Type: Personal
    Contributor Info: Assistant Editor
  • Contributor: Moore, Alma R.
    Contributor Type: Personal
    Contributor Info: Production Assistant
  • Artist: Siemens, William E.
    Contributor Type: Personal
    Contributor Info: Graphic Artist
  • Printer: University of Oklahoma Printing Services
    Contributor Type: Organization

Publisher

  • Name: Oklahoma Historical Society
    Place of Publication: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Date

  • Creation: 2001-21

Language

  • English

Description

  • Content Description: Article examines the impact of the Spanish flu epidemic on Oklahomans during 1918-1919. Nigel Anthony Sellars discusses the spread of the epidemic on a detailed level, identifying the medical institutions and professionals who sought to combat the epidemic as it spread from one Oklahoma city to another.
  • Physical Description: 26 p. : ill.

Subject

  • Library of Congress Subject Headings: Oklahoma -- History
  • Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms: Periodicals
  • Library of Congress Subject Headings: Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919
  • Keyword: medical personnel
  • Keyword: hospitals
  • Keyword: medical care
  • University of North Texas Libraries Browse Structure: Business, Economics and Finance - Medicine
  • Keyword: histories
  • Keyword: epidemics
  • Keyword: Spanish flu

Coverage

  • Place Name: United States - Oklahoma - Oklahoma County - Oklahoma City
  • Place Name: United States - Oklahoma - Tulsa County - Tulsa
  • Coverage Date: 1918/1996

Source

  • Journal: Chronicles of Oklahoma, 79(1), Oklahoma Historical Society, 2001, pp. 36-61

Citation

  • Publication Title: Chronicles of Oklahoma
  • Volume: 79
  • Issue: 1
  • Page Start: 36
  • Page End: 61

Relation

  • Is Part Of: Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 79, Number 1, Spring 2001, ark:/67531/metadc1761009

Collection

  • Name: The Chronicles of Oklahoma
    Code: CRNOK

Institution

  • Name: Oklahoma Historical Society
    Code: OKHS

Rights

  • Rights Access: public
  • Rights License: copyright
  • Rights Holder: Oklahoma Historical Society

Resource Type

  • Article

Format

  • Text

Identifier

  • Accession or Local Control No: 2001-v79-n01_a03
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metadc2016825

Note

  • Display Note: Abstract: In the Spanish flu epidemic of 1918-1919, more than 550,000 Americans, including 7,350 Oklahomans, died from the disease. Communities and health professionals battled a contagion against which normal public health measures proved futile. Nigel Sellars provides a fascinating study, in human terms, of an outbreak that left everyone "almost hopeless in the wake of the storm."
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