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The documents reveal some surprising similarities between how Bostonians coped with smallpox and how we're navigating the coronavirus pandemic.

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increase font size Old records shed new light on Boston smallpox outbreaks in 1700s Newly digitized records from the 18th century are shedding fresh light on devastating outbreaks of smallpox that hit the Boston area starting in 1721 By WILLIAM J. KOLEAssociated Press Share BOSTON — A highly contagious disease originating far from America’s shores triggers deadly outbreaks that spread rapidly, infecting the masses. Shots are available, but a divided public agonizes over getting jabbed. So...

Old records shed new light on smallpox outbreaks in 1700s A highly contagious disease originating far from Americas shores triggers deadly outbreaks that spread rapidly, infecting the masses. Newly digitized records — including a ministers diary scanned and posted online by Bostons Congregational Library and Archives — are shedding fresh light on devastating outbreaks of smallpox that hit the city in the 1700s. “How little weve changed,” said CLA archivist Zachary Bodnar, who led the ...

14 hours ago in Local Photo: WHMP BOSTON (AP) – Massachusetts is tightening up access to jobless benefits as it emerges more fully from the pandemic. The Baker administration announced Thursday that work search requirements will be reinstated for all those seeking regular unemployment insurance benefits beginning the week of June 15. The requirement applies to those receiving Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation and those on extended benefits. Massachu...

New Light: Blyth Spirits Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts. In 2005 the Maine auction house F. O. Bailey Antiquarians offered a late eighteenth-century oil portrait of Nancy Bezoil Lane and her daughter Betsy as a painting “in the manner of Joseph Badger.” Marvin Sadik—by then an art dealer, but formerly the director of the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC—bought it with a winning bid of $32,480. He had recognized the portrait as the work of the Salem, Massachusetts,...