When we left our office building the last time, we all thought it would be for just two weeks, although I wondered if it might be as long as two months. However, I thought about the Lonaconing Silk Mill in MD that was quickly abandoned in 1957, has been kept as it was on the day it closed, and is a well known site for photographers, and I wondered if that's what would happen to our building. Fifty years from now, will tourists want to see our calendars and personal effects from the day we left in March 2020?Image Added
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Birding was a reprieve from the terrible news of illness, lives lost and economic ruin that spring. Birds brought new life while humans were sick and dying. We avoided the topics of public health and politics on our bird walks. It was truly a type of wilderness therapy.Image Added
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Your professional or personal experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic are unique and can be communicated in whatever way that you feel fitting. Some ideas include but are not limited to:
Filling out the questionnaire [link to that]
Participating in a short virtual interview [link to that]
Videos or audio recordings that you have created
Photography
Journal entries, blogs, poetry, prose, etc.
Artwork
Spreadsheets, presentations, or other work projects
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Answer questions and submit digital files that document your experience with this form. Answer as many or as few questions as you would like. Be sure to read the Permission Agreements at the end of the form.
Do you have physical items or papers that capture your experience with contending with COVID-19? Send them to us either by mail or deliver them in-person to the Office of NIH History and Stetten Museum once we re-open at:
Office of NIH History and Stetten Museum Attn: Gabrielle Barr Building 60, Suite 230 National Institutes of Health Bethesda, Maryland 20814-1460
When donating physical items, please complete our Deed of Gift form (pdf, 12kb). This gives us the permission to use your materials online, in exhibits, and in publications as well as add them to the Office of NIH History and Stetten Museum's collection.
We are accepting submissions in languages other than English.
Please do not include personal health information in your submissions for the privacy rights of those involved.
We will acknowledge receipt of your submission.
The Office of NIH History and Stetten Museum has the right to reject any submission or component of a submission that it considers duplicative, inappropriate, or outside the scope of the project.
There is no firm deadline to submit materials as the pandemic continues. We estimate that the submission element of this project will last through 2021.
Submissions will not be accessible immediately for public viewing. After we process and curate the materials, they will be available for historic scholarship. By the end of 2021, we hope to show many of these digital documents on our website, and we plan to feature a selection of the submissions in forthcoming exhibits and publications.
If you have concerns about maintaining your privacy, questions regarding sensitivity to information disclosed, or dissatisfaction with the way your submission is represented online, please reach out to the Office of NIH History and Stetten Museum at history@nih.gov to discuss potential solutions.
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If you have questions about how your submission would fit into our repository, accessibility requirements, or need technical assistance, please contact Gabrielle Barr at history@nih.gov.
