Yellow Fever Quarantine Camp,

ID: 218 ~ Source: Image is in the Public Domain, Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. ~ Creator: Lyttle's Studio, Baton Rouge, Louisiana ~ Date: 1897
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The camp seen here, Fort Vigilant, was established outside of Baton Rouge during the 1897 Yellow Fever outbreak. Unsure of how it was transmitted, officials sought to keep the disease from decimating that city by setting up quarantine camps.

This file appears in: Mosquitoes and Yellow Fever