# @sachistorymuseum on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CwD4YfOSUjJ
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/76087480-sachistorymuseum-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2023-08-17T21:22:47.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Sacramento History Museum (@sachistorymuseum) — https://gondola.cc/sachistorymuseum

## Caption

Have you checked out our expanded May Woolsey exhibit yet?
 
May Woolsey was born November 13, 1866 and died on September 21, 1879 of viral encephalitis, likely stemming from a mosquito bite, when she was 12 years old. 

May’s grieving parents gathered up her childhood belongings, placed them in a trunk, and sealed it in a wall under the staircase of their home at 916 E Street, creating a time capsule of a child’s life in Sacramento in the 1870s. The trunk was found 100 years later when a new owner of the house was doing renovations. The trunk’s contents, over 600 items, offer a rare glimpse of life in Sacramento during the 1870s.

This special interactive exhibit is presented by the Sacramento Pioneers Association and the Society of the Blind.
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