# @mdhistory on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CAbK5AXDjPL
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/75984445-mdhistory-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/5fd5c1f9ff.jpg
- **Posted:** 2020-05-20T21:20:10.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Maryland Center for History and Culture (MCHC) (@mdhistory) — https://gondola.cc/mdhistory

## Caption

As a USPS employee, Lauren from Darlington feels vulnerable to COVID-19. She says, "Every day is a struggle to get out of bed to go to work. I have two young children at home and I cannot afford to stay home and only receive 2/3 of my pay." Read more in our "underbelly" blog at www.mdhs.org/underbelly. Submit your letter to our #CollectinginQuarantineMD initiative to lettersfromthehomefront@mdhs.org.

Image: “Faithful to His Duty,” photograph by Leo Beachy, undated, PP235.692.1. Leo J. Beachy Photograph Collection, PP235, H. Furlong Baldwin Library, Maryland Historical Society.

#LettersFromtheHomeFrontMD #essentialworkers #MarylandHistory

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lettersfromthehomefrontmd, marylandhistory, essentialworkers, collectinginquarantinemd

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