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Patience and Fortitude

Title (Dublin Core)

Patience and Fortitude

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Description (Dublin Core)

The New York Public Library’s website explains, “During the 1930s, Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia named [the library lions] Patience and Fortitude for the qualities New Yorkers would need to survive the economic depression.” I remembered this fact and connected immediately with it the first time I saw Patience and Fortitude wearing their masks in solidarity with the New Yorkers they have watched over for more than a century. It struck me that we would need those virtues to make it through COVID-19 as well. “Those lion statues have seen New York struggle through and overcome many hardships from the 1917 Flu to the Great Depression to September 11th,” I thought. Things were grim in New York in 2020. We were the first to experience the horror that would eventually engulf the whole country. The infection rate was high, hospitals were full, people were dying. It was easy to despair. The masked lions were a powerful symbol of the resolve and resilience of New Yorkers and a reminder that this turmoil, too, would pass into history and the city - like the lions - would remain standing.

Date (Dublin Core)

July 27, 2020

Creator (Dublin Core)

Susan Smith-Peter

Contributor (Dublin Core)

Gabriella Leone

Event Identifier (Dublin Core)

HST718

Partner (Dublin Core)

College of Staten Island

Type (Dublin Core)

Image

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Social Distance
English Cities & Suburbs
English Museums & Libraries
English Economy

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

New York
New York Public Library
Great Depression
Spanish Flu
1917
history
epidemic

Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)

csi public history coronavirus chronicle
HST 718
lockdown staten island
New York City
New York Public Library
patience and fortitude
lions
mask
public monument
#nytough

Linked Data (Dublin Core)

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

03/13/2023

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

04/02/2023
04/04/2023

Date Created (Dublin Core)

07/27/2020

Item sets

This item was submitted on March 13, 2023 by Gabriella Leone using the form “Share Your Lockdown Staten Island Story” on the site “Lockdown Staten Island”: https://covid-19archive.org/s/lockdown-staten-island

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