Rosa Fiveash’s Quarantine Camp 1919: a not so new ‘normal’

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Rosa Fiveash’s Quarantine Camp 1919: a not so new ‘normal’


Jodie Vandepeer

Australiana, Vol 44 no 1, February 2022

A small watercolour painting reveals remarkable similarities between the 1919 pandemic and that of our times.

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