This collection has items collected by Carleton students during Spring and Summer 2020 that speak to the Covid-19 pandemic across the US. Most of the student body was off-campus, at home or elsewhere. These photos and documents were collected near where the students were living and reflect living during the pandemic. Most of the contributions were made by students in Historians for Hire.
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A Guide for Rainy Days
This photobook expresses the author's experience with depression in general and during the COVID-19 pandemic. All photos were taken in and near the artist's house in Prattville, Alabama as a result of the stay-at-home order and later voluntary self-quarantine of Spring 2020. Some images speak to the experience of a social and academic life maintained mostly digitally. Others analyze the lack of clarity, descent into darkness, and subsequent return to hope.
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Andes Central School COVID-19 Signage
Andes Central School public signage outside the school's main entrance. The signage warns the town to "Stay Safe" and announces an imminent Board of Education meeting on at 7pm on May 21st.
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Barefoot Dance Center - Coronavirus Update
An early e-mail update from Barefoot Dance Center in West Park, NY, explaining that it will continue to function mostly as normal but with increased attention paid to health and safety concerns related to COVID-19
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Barefoot Dance Classes are about to go ONLINE
An update from Barefoot Dance Center to students/families about the impending shift to online learning due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Be a Hero...Wear a Mask
This sign located in a neighborhood swimming facility in Darien, Illinois urges people to wear masks by celebrating those who are doing their part to stop the spread of COVID-19.
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Be Well, Stay Strong : Chalk Art
This is a picture of chalk art containing the words "be well, stay strong."
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Brookville Market Door Signage
Door signage at a local Chevy Chase, MD supermarket that outlines the new health precautions taken by the establishment
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Bucky The Badger Social Distancing
University of Wisconsin-Madison both fenced in and placed a mask on a statue of their mascot, Bucky the Badger, to promote mask wearing and social distancing on campus.
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Celebrating 21st Birthday Covid-19 Style
A picture taken during a daily walk in Pierre, SD showing how one person is trying to make their 21st birthday special in the midst of social distancing. Out of frame is around five people with masks standing in a driveway and celebrating.
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Celebrations and Reminders: A High School Sign
These pictures of the Metea Valley High School sign (in Aurora, Illinois) celebrate the class of 2020, including images of toilet paper that refer to the pandemic. Also, some of the slides on the sign promote safety and encourage each individual to do their part to stop the spread of the virus. This sign serves as a positive source in the community as it celebrates students, and also works to remind individuals that they have a role in protecting others.
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Celebrations and Reminders: A High School Sign
These pictures of the Metea Valley High School sign (in Aurora, Illinois) celebrate the class of 2020, including images of toilet paper that refer to the pandemic. Also, some of the slides on the sign promote safety and encourage each individual to do their part to stop the spread of the virus. This sign serves as a positive source in the community as it celebrates students, and also works to remind individuals that they have a role in protecting others.
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Celebrations and Reminders: A High School Sign
These pictures of the Metea Valley High School sign (in Aurora, Illinois) celebrate the class of 2020, including images of toilet paper that refer to the pandemic. Also, some of the slides on the sign promote safety and encourage each individual to do their part to stop the spread of the virus. This sign serves as a positive source in the community as it celebrates students, and also works to remind individuals that they have a role in protecting others.
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Celebrations and Reminders: A High School Sign
These pictures of the Metea Valley High School sign (in Aurora, Illinois) celebrate the class of 2020, including images of toilet paper that refer to the pandemic. Also, some of the slides on the sign promote safety and encourage each individual to do their part to stop the spread of the virus. This sign serves as a positive source in the community as it celebrates students, and also works to remind individuals that they have a role in protecting others.
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Celebratory Posters For College Graduate
A family created posters to support a neighbor as she was supposed to graduate from college on May 2nd.
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Celebratory Posters For College Graduate
A family created posters to support a neighbor as she was supposed to graduate from college on May 2nd.
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Community Magazine Promoting the Support of First Responders
This Facebook post by a community magazine encourages families to show their support for all medical staff by placing candles and luminaries outside of their home.
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Coronavirus Birthday Party
After six months of not seeing her, my family made the three hour drive to Rapid City, SD to see my dad's mom for her birthday. We met in the park and one of her presents was a homemade coronavirus piñata made by my dad and sister. We hoped getting to destroy a replica of coronavirus would be a humorous way to acknowledge how hard this has been and maybe feel a bit better about all. The first photo is of the piñata; the second photo is of my dad and sister, Micheal and Jayne Lees, next to their creation; the third is a video of my grandmother, Marsha Lees, destroying her present; and the fourth photo is of my grandmother posing over the destroyed piñata.
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Coronavirus Birthday Party
After six months of not seeing her, my family made the three hour drive to Rapid City, SD to see my dad's mom for her birthday. We met in the park and one of her presents was a homemade coronavirus piñata made by my dad and sister. We hoped getting to destroy a replica of coronavirus would be a humorous way to acknowledge how hard this has been and maybe feel a bit better about all. The first photo is of the piñata; the second photo is of my dad and sister, Micheal and Jayne Lees, next to their creation; the third is a video of my grandmother, Marsha Lees, destroying her present; and the fourth photo is of my grandmother posing over the destroyed piñata.
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Coronavirus Birthday Party
After six months of not seeing her, my family made the three hour drive to Rapid City, SD to see my dad's mom for her birthday. We met in the park and one of her presents was a homemade coronavirus piñata made by my dad and sister. We hoped getting to destroy a replica of coronavirus would be a humorous way to acknowledge how hard this has been and maybe feel a bit better about all. The first photo is of the piñata; the second photo is of my dad and sister, Micheal and Jayne Lees, next to their creation; the third is a video of my grandmother, Marsha Lees, destroying her present; and the fourth photo is of my grandmother posing over the destroyed piñata.
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Coronavirus Birthday Party
After six months of not seeing her, my family made the three hour drive to Rapid City, SD to see my dad's mom for her birthday. We met in the park and one of her presents was a homemade coronavirus piñata made by my dad and sister. We hoped getting to destroy a replica of coronavirus would be a humorous way to acknowledge how hard this has been and maybe feel a bit better about all. The first photo is of the piñata; the second photo is of my dad and sister, Micheal and Jayne Lees, next to their creation; the third is a video of my grandmother, Marsha Lees, destroying her present; and the fourth photo is of my grandmother posing over the destroyed piñata.
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Country Club Offers Opportunity to Donate Meals
Stonebridge Country Club (Aurora, Illinois) is implementing a program to make and deliver meals to first responders using community members' financial donations. This donation additionally counts toward a food and beverage monthly minimum each home must spend.
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COVID-19 Signage at the Andes Fire Department
Signage outside the Andes Fire Department, listing a number of COVID-19-related precautions to be taken by the public.
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Denizens Brewing Company Contactless Delivery
Denizens Brewing Company, a Silver Spring, MD brewery announced that it is beginning contactless alcohol deliveries. Their website outlines the logistics of these deliveries, and how they hope to ensure the safety of everyone involved.
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Easton PA Facebook Group on COVID History
I posted to my local Facebook asking people what they would choose to put into a future museum. I found the answers to be a powerful mixture of human strength and tragedy, which captures some of the diversity of experience in this time.
