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Elmira Prison Camp: Area of Smallpox Hospital
Photographer: Scott J. Payne
Taken: June 19, 2014
Caption: Elmira Prison Camp: Area of Smallpox Hospital
Additional Description: Area of small pox hospital. By December 1864, their miserable existence and fight for survival intensified. The frigid cold weather swept in and, with it, small pox, arrived. Within weeks, smallpox became an epidemic, which led to a smallpox camp established away from the prison
Submitted: June 24, 2014, by Scott J. Payne of Deposit, New York.
Database Locator Identification Number: p277028
File Size: 3.552 Megabytes

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