box, cardboard
date: label: date made
content: ca 2020
notes: label: Description
content: These boxes held personal-protective equipment (PPE), such as facemasks, donated by a church in China to the Capitol Hill Baptist Church in Washington, DC, in the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic.
label: Description
content: Before the Covid-19 pandemic, Capitol Hill Baptist associate pastor Jamie Dunlop ministered at a church in China and forged a relationship between the two congregations. The United States faced a shortage of PPE early in the pandemic, while it was more readily available in China. When people at the Chinese church heard about the problem, they arranged to ship a donation of facemasks to their brethren on Capitol Hill.
label: Description
content: While American giving to China and other foreign countries is a familiar story, these boxes serve to remind that people around the world also support Americans philanthropically.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: China
topic: label: associated subject
content: Infectious diseases
label: associated subject
content: COVID-19 (Disease)
label: associated subject
content: Public Health
label: associated subject
content: 2019-nCoV disease
label: associated subject
content: Disease prevention
label: associated subject
content: 2019 novel coronavirus disease
label: related event
content: COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Philanthropy
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2021.0150.1
label: accession number
content: 2021.0150
label: catalog number
content: 2021.0150.1
objectType: label: Object Name
content: box, cardboard
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cardboard (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall, flattened: 78 cm x 96.5 cm x 4 cm; 30 23/32 in x 38 in x 1 9/16 in