Esther E. Thomas’s Scrapbook Recalls Nursing During the 1918 Flu

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Item from 1918 Flu Pandemic Collection: Page from Esther E. Thomas' university scrapbook describing the time of the influenza on campus. She talks about working as a nurse for the "flu"...

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Esther E. Thomas’s university scrapbook includes a page about working as a nurse during the 1918 flu. The surprising detail is the form of the record: a personal scrapbook page holds her account of a campus outbreak. The University of Idaho library describes the page as covering both influenza on campus and Thomas’s nursing work, though the provided description gives no details about particular patients or shifts.

That glimpse of someone caring for others makes the outbreak easier to imagine as part of everyday campus life, without telling us what a typical day looked like. The library’s description does not say how Thomas spent her time as a nurse or what she thought of the experience. What did she actually record about that work on the scrapbook page?

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