Community Remembrance Book
date: label: Date made
content: 2001-2002
name: label: maker
content: City of Mountain View
notes: label: Description
content: Description: This book contains over 300 messages and drawings from the citizens of Mountain View, California.
label: Description
content: Context: Following the terrorist attacks of September 11, people across the nation and around the world sought ways to express their condolences and solidarity. Many communities held candlelight vigils, built memorials, and compiled books of remembrance.
label: Description
content: The city of Mountain View, California, collected thoughts by local residents and drawings by area children. Over 300 of these thoughts were bound into a single volume. The book represents one town’s efforts to cope with the horror of the attack and come closer together as a community.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
title: label: Title
content: Community Remembrance Book
topic: label: associated subject
content: September 11 Terrorist Attacks
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: 2003.0143.01
label: accession number
content: 2003.0143
label: catalog number
content: 2003.0143.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Remembrance Book
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 32 cm x 31 cm x 4 cm; 12 5/8 in x 12 3/16 in x 1 9/16 in