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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

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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

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Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

08/09/2020

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

08/21/2020
10/27/2020

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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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