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Collected Item: “Madison Orpheum Theater Covid sign”

Give your story a title.

Madison Orpheum Theater Covid sign

What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?

photograph

Tell us a story; share your experience. Describe what the object or story you've uploaded says about the pandemic, and/or why what you've submitted is important to you.

In March 2020 Wisconsin had a state-mandated two-week lockdown. So, I went out with a camera (with a zoom lens that wasn't needed) and took pictures of the closed signs on businesses and of how desolate Madison was.

Use one-word hashtags (separated by commas) to describe your story. For example: Where did it originate? How does this object make you feel? How does this object relate to the pandemic?

#Madison, #Wisconsin, #Lockdown, #SmallBusinesses, #eerie

Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)

Weston Weisensel

Give this story a date.

2020-03-13
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