Cholera – French newspaper cover

Cover of a 1912 issue of Le Petit Journal, a French newspaper, showing cholera as death reaping thousands of corpses. By 1912 the so-called sixth cholera pandemic was well under way – having begun in India in 1899 it would last until 1923, killing some 800,000 people across the world. This is a reproduction printed professionally on high-quality matte paper . See full size guide .