Browse Items (888 total)

Report to the Commons, Amanda Seligman, 2020

Glen Hills Middle School is distributing work packets and Chromebooks to students who will be out of school for the next several weeks. The eight…

Tags: Education--K12, Glen Hills Middle School, Glendale WI, Homeschooling, Photograph

COVID-19 Whiteboard, Lydia Fleisher, 2020

I am a sixth grader at Golda Meir School in Milwaukee. I wanted to make a board with events coming up but everything got canceled because of the…

Tags: Cancellation, Children, Education--K12, Emotion, Golda Meir School, Haymarket Neighborhood

Oh Well, James Hegarty, 2020

This is trivial in comparison to everything else going on, but this weekend was supposed to be my son Colin’s first state hockey tournament. I’m sad…

Tags: Children, Home & Family Life, Photograph, Sports

Empty Shelves, Chris Cantwell, 2020

The empty shelves at Aldi on Capitol Drive.

Tags: Capitol Heights Neighborhood, Essential Business, Grocery Store, Item Shortage, Photograph

Thank You Notes, Chris Cantwell, 2020

Several residents on Milwaukee's East Side took the call to "social distance" very serious and stayed home. To help pass the time, neighbors shared…

Tags: Children, East Side Neighborhood, Home & Family Life, Photograph, Social Distance, Thank You

Chris Cantwell, The Jewish Community Center Closes, March 14, 2020

This is the email sent by the Jewish Community Center announcing that it was closing. I am struck by the Jewish themes woven throughout the letter,…

Tags: Closed Spaces, Community Center, Jewish Community Center, Judaism, Religion, Whitefish Bay WI

Diary of a Plague, Sophonisba F., age 15, 2020

You will notice there are some dots and dashes on my diary. This is how I open and close my diaries. It's Morse Code, but in my handwriting it might…

Tags: Emotion, Home & Family Life, Reflection

Amanda Seligman 2020, Awaiting Pandemic: March 12, 2020

Tags: Emotion, Home & Family Life, Reflection