Yellow fever in Buenos Aires
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The Yellow fever in Buenos Aires was a series of epidemics that took place in 1852, 1858, 1870 and 1871, the latter being a disaster that killed about 8% of Porteños: in a city where the daily death r
Hearse during the 1871 epidemic in Buenos Aires
The house where the first case was registered (published on Caras y Caretas in 1899)
An Episode of Yellow Fever in Buenos Aires (1871), oil on canvas by Juan Manuel Blanes, National Museum of Visual Arts
The monument erected in 1873 to the victims of the yellow fever epidemic of 1871, in the centre of Parque Ameghino, in the neighbourhood of Parque Patricios, Buenos Aires (By Manuel Ferrari)
Buenos Aires Western Railway
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The Buenos Aires Western Railway, inaugurated in the city of Buenos Aires on 29 August 1857, was the first railway built in Argentina and the start of the extensive rail network that was developed ove
Yellow fever in Buenos Aires
…daily, reaching the peak of the epidemic on 10 April with 583 deaths, compared to the normal rate before the epidemic of around 20 deaths per day. The Buenos Aires Western Railway extended a line from the Avenida Corrientes down to the cemetery and started running a train for the dead, with two journeys a day solely for transporting…
Locomotive La Porteña, c. 1873
Invitation card to the opening of the line, 1857.
Del Parque, the main station, demolished in 1889.
La Floresta (c. 1869), the first terminus.