Georgia COVID-19 pandemic collection, 2020-2021

Summary

Creator:
University of Georgia
Date:
2020-2021
Extent:
0.45 gigabyte(s) 262 files
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Georgia COVID-19 pandemic collection, ms4460, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries.

Background

Scope and content:

This collection consists of writings and photographs responding to the COVID-19 pandemic as it happened. Materials were submitted by students, faculty, and staff at the University of Georgia and by Georgia residents across the state. It includes personal essays and reflections, images of pandemic signage, video, poetry, and other documentation of Georgians' experiences with COVID-19 in 2020 and 2021.

Biographical / historical:

The COVID-19 collection was established as an archival collecting project in April 2020 as a way of documenting the experiences of people in the University of Georgia community and people across the state of Georgia in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. Submissions were received throughout 2020 and 2021.

Access and use restrictions

Preferred citation:

Georgia COVID-19 pandemic collection, ms4460, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries.