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Living in an Epidemic: What Did Abigail Do?

Title (Dublin Core)

Living in an Epidemic: What Did Abigail Do?

Description (Dublin Core)

A blog post from the Massachusetts Historical Society blog The Beehive, this post studies how Abigail Adams responded to the 1776 smallpox epidemic. Looking through primary sources in Adams' own words, the author studies how Abigail Adams responded to an epidemic in her own time period.
GREATERBOSTON, Covid-19, Museums & Collections, Collecting Institutions: Massachusetts Historical Society, response, primary source, blog

Date (Dublin Core)

April 30, 2020

Creator (Dublin Core)

Gwen Fries
Adam Papers

Contributor (Dublin Core)

Hailey Philbin

Partner (Dublin Core)

Northeastern University

Type (Dublin Core)

screenshot from the Massachusetts Historical Society website

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Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Biography
English Healthcare
English Public Health & Hospitals

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

smallpox
Abigail Adams
journal
pandemic
vaccine
Massachusetts Historical Society

Collection (Dublin Core)

Greater Boston

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Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

08/09/2020

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

08/20/2020

Date Created (Dublin Core)

04/30/2020

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This item was submitted on August 9, 2020 by Hailey Philbin using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: http://mail.covid-19archive.org/s/archive

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