“Use the handkerchief and do your bit to protect me!” poster drawn by Clifford Berryman, 1918.

Digital poster created by the Blue Earth County Historical Society that incorporates the text of a notice issued by the Mankato Board of Health on October 12, 1918, in response to the influenza epidemic.

World War I troops training in Stillwater, MN, 1917.

Fort Snelling Hospital, Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States, 1918.

Grave of Private Martin Tudahl, a US Army soldier from Peterson, MN. Tudahl died at age twenty-six on October 7, 1918, in the US General Hospital, Fort Snelling, of influenza and bronchial pneumonia. He was a member of the Student Army Training Corps (SATC) at the University of Minnesota and is buried in Highland Prairie Lutheran Cemetery in Fillmore County. Image used with the permission of Michele Ekern.

Death information for Private Martin Tudahl, a US Army soldier from Peterson, MN. Died at age twenty-six on October 7, 1918, in the US General Hospital, Fort Snelling, of influenza and bronchial pneumonia.

Minnesota State Health Department, influenza quarantine sign, not dated. Minnesota Department of Health, Reports and Miscellaneous Records, 1872–2002. Posters, Circulars, and Reporting Forms, undated and 1890s‒1940s.

Originally published in 1931, “Tony Passes” was published by multiple newspapers following Peterson’s death from complications of tuberculosis a year later. Moe, Lawrence. “The Poetry of Colorado Pete.” Shevlin, MN: Clearwater County Historical Society, 2008.

Arthur Peterson weaving with a peg loom during one of his convalescent periods, ca. early 1930s. Moe, Lawrence. “The Poetry of Colorado Pete.” Shevlin, MN: Clearwater County Historical Society, 2008.