Jan Maciejewski Wallet
notes: label: Description
content: Description: This wallet belonged to Jan Maciejewski, a Polish immigrant who was a waiter at Windows on the World, located in the 107th floor of the North Tower.
label: Description
content: Context: Jan hadn’t been scheduled to work the morning shift on September 11, 2001, but had agreed to fill in for a friend. According to newspaper reports, 99 percent of the people below the points of impact survived. Yet for those above the impact zones or trapped in elevators, there was no escape. Jan’s wallet was found in the debris; it contained $32 in burnt bills, 12 business cards, an address book and card holder.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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: 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
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Mary Maciejewski in loving memory of her husband Jan Maciejewski
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2004.0269.01
label: accession number
content: 2004.0269
label: catalog number
content: 2004.0269.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Wallet
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 cm x 12 cm x 3 cm; 3 9/16 in x 4 3/4 in x 1 3/16 in