Inside the research and making of the Erie 100 project :Forgotten plague: Erie and 1918-19 Spanish flu pandemic

Explore the history of the 1918-19 Spanish flu outbreak in Erie

Video tour of Erie Cemetery section where many flu victims are buried

Erie County & Spanish Influenza, 1918
Infogram

Click the image to launch a gallery of photos of Erie newspaper pages and articles from 1918.

Click the image to launch a gallery of photos taken around the United States during the 1918-19 Spanish flu pandemic.

Credits

Reporting, research and writing for this project: staff writers Valerie Myers and David Bruce.

Interactive graphics, audio and videos: online reporter Sarah Grabski

Photos: photography supervisor Christopher J. Millette

Editing: executive editor Doug Oathout; managing editor Pat Bywater; news editor Matt Martin

Design: news editor Matt Martin

Thank you

Peter Burton and Hogan Zegarelli of Burton Funeral Homes; Thomas Falasca, D.O., of the Erie County Medical Society; Sandra Brydon Smith of the Erie County Bar Association; Betsy MacKrell, database manager at Erie Cemetery; Episcopal Cathedral of St. Paul historian Bob Guerrein; Loretta Beckerink of the Corry Area Historical Society; Dale Docter of the Cambridge Springs Heritage Society; Nancy Weissbach, M.D., an infectious diseases specialist at Saint Vincent Hospital; Ferdinando Mirarchi, D.O., director of emergency medicine at UPMC Hamot; Walter Kauffman III, and Erie County Coroner Lyell Cook.