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Collected Item: “Witness to History”

Give your story a title.

Witness to History

What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?

screenshot from the Massachusetts Historical Society website

Tell us a story; share your experience. Describe what the object or story you've uploaded says about the pandemic, and/or why what you've submitted is important to you.

This webpage invites audiences to include their perspectives of the Covid-19 pandemic. Individuals can write a few sentences about their experiences and help build a database of responses. Functioning as a digital journal, the Massachusetts Historical Society collects how Boston residents respond to certain prompts pertaining to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Use one-word hashtags (separated by commas) to describe your story. For example: Where did it originate? How does this object make you feel? How does this object relate to the pandemic?

GREATERBOSTON, Covid-19, Museums & Collections, Collecting Institution: Massaschusetts Historical Society, blog, responses

Enter a URL associated with this object, if relevant.

https://www.masshist.org/projects/covid/index.php

Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)

Massachusetts Historical Society

Give this story a date.

2020
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