Melted File Cabinet
notes: label: Description
content: Description: This crushed file cabinet was recovered from the debris pile at the World Trade Center.
label: Description
content: Context: The World Trade Center complex was home to a wide variety of businesses, including a number of retail stores on the plaza and underground levels. This file cabinet came from a Ben & Jerry’s ice-cream shop that was a popular fixture on the plaza. Terrorist attacks such as those of September 11 often target civilians rather than combatants.
place: 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
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, Port Authority Police Department
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2002.0056.01
label: accession number
content: 2002.0056
label: catalog number
content: 2002.0056.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: File Cabinet
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 50 cm x 58 cm x 36 cm; 19 11/16 in x 22 13/16 in x 14 3/16 in