Philadelphia Navy Yard
Books
- The Parade Philadelphia, the Liberty Loan Parade, and the Deadliest Week in American History · Liszt Think
On September 28, 1918, two hundred thousand Philadelphians gathered for a Liberty Loan parade as influenza silently spread through the Navy Yard.
- The River City and Its Keepers…in the world, with 35, 000 laborers assembling standardized cargo vessels on an assembly line that had not existed three years before. The Philadelphia Navy Yard, established in 1801 on League Island at the confluence of the Schuylkill and Delaware, had expanded until it covered 800 acres, with new d…
- The Shadow in the Ranks…he standard therapies—digitalis for cardiac support, oxygen inhalation, stimulants—seemed to have little effect on the downward course. The Philadelphia Navy Yard sat at the southern edge of the city, a 900-acre complex of shipways, foundries, barracks, and hospitals that had swallowed the earlier Lea…
- The Rules on Wilmer Krusen’s Desk…legram received the previous afternoon from the Fourth Naval District headquarters. It reported sixty-three new influenza admissions at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, with four deaths in the preceding twenty-four hours. The figures were typed in the clipped format of naval bureaucracy: date, time, locati…