ephemera 
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SOURCE: The New Yorker
3/15/2021
The Race to Collect COVID Ephemera Before It’s History
"Last year, on March 13th, as Americans began to restructure daily life in response to covid-19, one curator, Rebecca Klassen, had an idea."
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SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
12/1/2020
The Struggle to Document COVID-19 for Future Generations
by Pamela Ballinger
Images of suffering have been powerful spurs to humanitarian action in history, but the process has the potential to reinforce messages of fault, blame, and separation. Assembling a visual archive of the age of COVID must avoid those traps to be useful in the future.
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