Item
Smallpox in Boston: Inoculation and the Revere Family
Title (Dublin Core)
Smallpox in Boston: Inoculation and the Revere Family
Description (Dublin Core)
As the Covid-19 pandemic began to spread in Boston, museum interpreters at the Paul Revere house looked to the archives to learn more about how Boston has responded to wide-spread illness in the past. This blog post from The Revere Express blog explains how the smallpox epidemic effected the Revere Family and ways that 18th century medicine responded to the illness.
Date (Dublin Core)
April 6, 2020
Creator (Dublin Core)
Edward S. Gault, Interpreter at the Paul Revere House
Contributor (Dublin Core)
Hailey Philbin
Type (Dublin Core)
screenshot from the Paul Revere Memorial Association website
Link (Bibliographic Ontology)
Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)
English
Museums & Libraries
English
Architecture & Planning
English
Business & Industry
English
Public Health & Hospitals
Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)
Boston
Paul Revere Memorial Association
blog
quarantine
closed
Massachusetts
Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)
Greater Boston
COVID-19
museum
blog
primary source
Collecting Institution (Bibliographic Ontology)
Paul Revere Memorial Association
Linked Data (Dublin Core)
Date Submitted (Dublin Core)
08/09/2020
Date Modified (Dublin Core)
08/21/2020
10/27/2020
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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