Collection

COVID-19 collection

Description Level

Fonds

GMD

graphic material

electronic record

sound recording

Creator

Bulkley Valley Museum

Fonds No.

C4

Accession No.

2020.7

2021.6

2021.14

Physical Description

1 cm graphic material

210 JPEG photographs

2 PDFs

1 CD

Date Range

2020-2021

History / Biographical

The COVID-19, or coronavirus, pandemic is an ongoing (as of March 2021) global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019. First identified in Wuhan, China in December 2019, the disease soon spread across the globe, being declared a pandemic on March 11th 2020 by the World Health Organization.

Custodial History

These records were collected by Bulkley Valley Museum staff throughout 2020 and 2021 in order to document the COVID-19 pandemic as it occurred. Several of them were initially added to other fonds (Discrete Item Collection, Town of Smithers Fonds, Bulkley Valley Folk Music Society Fonds) before the COVID-19 Collection was created on March 26th 2021.

Scope and Content

This collection contains material related to the impact of, and the response to, the 2020-2021 COVID-19 pandemic in Smithers. It includes over 200 photographs by Chris Duncan of the town during the early stages of the pandemic, a CD of the 2020 virtual Canada Day event, and ephemera such as posters, cards, flyers, and digital records relating to COVID-19.

Arrangement

Arrangement is artifical and has been imposed by museum staff.

Geographic Access

Smithers, B.C.

Related Material

Related material in the Museum’s artifact collection includes a refillable hand sanitizer can produced by the Smithers Brewing Co. in response to a shortage of such containers in Smithers.

Type of Record

Archival Description

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