1918 Pandemic in Meeteetse & Park County: Part III Not “Business as Usual” By Alex Deselms, Interim Director & Director of Collections For our next post in this series on the 1918 pandemic in Park County, we focus on how life goes on or is paused during an epidemic. Politics continued through the influenza pandemic […]
1918 Pandemic in Meeteetse and Park County: Part I Symptoms, Personal Protective Equipment, and Medicine By Alex Deselms, Director of Collections People have been combating disease by wearing masks and face coverings for centuries. Unfortunately, we don’t have a European doctor’s plague mask in the collection for comparison (these curved beak-like masks were only in […]