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NH 79892 Yellow Fever

Yellow Fever
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Title: Yellow Fever
Caption: Newspaper account, published in "The Time Piece", New York, 15 September 1797, of a yellow fever epidemic then afflicting Philadelphia. In the article is mention of the disease breaking out aboard USS UNITED STATES.
Description: Courtesy of Bertram Sobers, Fairfax, VA., 1974
Catalog #: NH 79892
Copyright Owner: Naval History and Heritage Command
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Original Date: Fri, Sep 15, 1797
After this Year: 1790
Before this Year: 1799
Original Medium: BW Photo
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