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Desolation

Title (Dublin Core)

Desolation

Description (Dublin Core)

The moment I saw this photo, I felt the profoundness of it. The New York subway system empty. Normally people would be walking through these gates, flooding the long hall between trains and destinations. The thing that strikes me more than the emptiness is the long tunnel leading to the exit. Well over 100 feet long the tunnel seems to go on forever, a feeling that mimics the endless period of the covid lockdown. It just felt as if it would never end, and now, looking at the tunnel I feel a sense of sadness, as if a year of my life was wasted, one that no matter how much I try to forget, I cannot.

Date (Dublin Core)

July 27, 2020

Creator (Dublin Core)

Author Unknow. From the CSI Public History Coronavirus Chronicle

Contributor (Dublin Core)

Carey Leiterman

Type (Dublin Core)

photograph

Link (Bibliographic Ontology)

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Social Media (including Memes)
English Transportation
English Emotion

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

subway
Facebook
empty
sad
New York
train

Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)

subway
empty
lockdown
COVID-19
sadness
desolation

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

03/11/2023

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

04/03/2023

Date Created (Dublin Core)

07/26/2020

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This item was submitted on March 11, 2023 by Carey Leiterman using the form “Share Your Lockdown Staten Island Story” on the site “Lockdown Staten Island”: http://mail.covid-19archive.org/s/lockdown-staten-island

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