At left, Nora Warshaw with her father Bernhardt Warshaw.

On the right, Nora's 8th grade graduation picture, probably taken in 1917 or 1918.

Sometime after she started high school, Nora was a victim of the Influenza Epidemic of 1918.

According to information on the PBS Web site:

"In the spring of 1918, as the nation mobilized for war, Private Albert Gitchell reported to an Army hospital in Kansas. He was diagnosed with the flu, a disease doctors knew little about. Before the year was out, America would be ravaged by a flu epidemic that killed 675,000--more than in all the wars of this century combined--before disappearing as mysteriously as it began."

My mother was hospitalized for quite some time, and was pretty sick for long enough that she was unable to graduate from high school. I'm not sure that that the picture below was related to her struggle with influenza. It is dated 1921. The note on the front says, "To [illegible] - alive again"

A note on the back reads, "Sal Hepatica. They said I looked so sad I made the whole porch poor. Do you like it?" and is signed "Nora Warshaw."