Badge-covered Apron
date: label: Date made
content: 2001
name: label: maker
content: Nino Vendome
notes: label: Description
content: Description: This apron is covered with uniform patches from grateful patrons of Nino's restaurant, a relief center for World Trade Center recovery workers.
label: Description
content: Context: Many Americans looked for ways to help after the September 11 attacks. One New York City businessman, Antonio Nino Vendome, turned his family restaurant into a relief center. Staffed by volunteers and supported largely by donations, Nino’s served hundreds of thousands of free meals twenty-four hours a day to firefighters, police officers, Red Cross workers, and others at the World Trade Center site. For many, Nino’s became a refuge, a place to find companionship and support as well as a meal. Many of the workers left their organizational patches as tokens of thanks, which Nino attached to kitchen aprons and hung on the wall.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: worn
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: 2002.0237.01
label: accession number
content: 2002.0237
label: catalog number
content: 2002.0237.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Apron
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 86 cm x 117 cm x .5 cm; 33 7/8 in x 46 1/16 in x 3/16 in