Elevator Emergency Sign
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This elevator emergency sign was recovered from the World Trade Center after September 11, 2001. It is rectangular in shape and has a hole cut out of the center for the emergency button used by the fire department. The sign reads “In Case Of Fire, Elevators Are Out Of Service.” The 99 elevators were normally the lifeblood of the World Trade Center, but during the September 11th attacks many workers were trapped inside. This sign was recovered from the debris at the Staten Island recovery site at Fresh Kills.
label: Location
content: Currently on loan
place: label: recovery site
content: United States: New York, Fresh Kills
label: recovered
content: United States: New York, Manhattan, World Trade Center
topic: label: associated subject
content: September 11 Terrorist Attacks
label: related event
content: Attack on the World Trade Center
label: related event
content: September 11th Attacks
setName: label: See more items in
content: Military and Society: Armed Forces History, 9/11
label: See more items in
content: September 11
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2002.0238.05
label: accession number
content: 2002.0238
label: catalog number
content: 2002.0238.05
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Sign
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 35.6 cm x 14 cm x .5 cm; 14 1/32 in x 5 1/2 in x 3/16 in