Yellow Fever in Philadelphia, 1793
A near-contemporary drawing showing a bit of the panic and despair that must have accompanied the late summer and fall of 1793, when yellow fever tore through Philadelphia. (Note that it appears to show a man lying dead in the gutter.)
The yellow fever epidemic ultimately wound up claiming some 5,000 lives between August 1 and November 9, roughly one-tenth of the city's population at the time.