Ironworker's Chaps
notes: label: Description
content: This pair of leather chaps was used by ironworker James A. Connor on the World Trade Center rescue, recovery, and removal job. Mr. Connor participated in the search-and-rescue effort and helped clear debris from the World Trade Center site from September 12, 2001 to January 2002. Mr. Connor was an ironworker from New York’s Local 40 Ironworkers Union who had been working on the Williamsburg Bridge renovation when the attack occurred.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: used
content: United States: New York, Manhattan, World Trade Center
topic: label: associated subject
content: September 11 Terrorist Attacks
label: related event
content: September 11th Attacks
label: related event
content: Attack on the World Trade Center
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: 2002.0054.15
label: accession number
content: 2002.0054
label: catalog number
content: 2002.0054.15
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Chaps, leather
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 42 in x 28 in; 106.68 cm x 71.12 cm