Research Catalog

Title

The stories they tell : artifacts from the National September 11 Memorial Museum : a journey of remembrance / foreword by Michael R. Bloomberg ; edited by Clifford Chanin and Alice M. Greenwald ; [introduction by Joe Daniels].

Publication

New York, N.Y. : Skira Rizzoli, 2013.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Bloomberg, Michael
• Chanin, Clifford.
• Greenwald, Alice M.
• Daniels, Joe.
• National September 11 Memorial & Museum (Organization)

Description

160 p. : ill (some col.), maps; 33 cm.

Summary

This poignant selection of artifacts - and their stories - from September 11 provides an official, lasting record of that day's experience. In both text and photography, the story of September 11 is told through a selection of powerfully moving artifacts from the 9/11 museum's collection that serve as touchstones to the day and its aftermath. From crushed FDNY trucks to the steel that was pierced as planes struck the Twin Towers, from victims' property pulled from the wreckage and returned to families (who later donated the property to the museum) to spontaneous memorials collected from around Ground Zero, the array of objects tell complex and often surprising stories. Poignant artifacts as monumental as the Vesey Street staircase - which offered an escape for thousands fleeing the towers - and as intimate as a loved one's wedding band or last recorded phone message are selected to illuminate people's experiences during and after September 11, 2001, and February 26, 1993. The mission of the National September 11 Memorial & Museum is to bear solemn witness to the terrorist attacks against the World Trade Center. The museum honors the nearly 3,000 victims of these attacks and all those who risked their lives to save others. It further recognizes the thousands who survived and all who demonstrated extraordinary compassion in the aftermath.

Subject

• World Trade Center (New York, N.Y. : 1970-2001)
• 2001
• September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 > Pictorial works
• September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 > Anecdotes
• American Airlines Flight 11 Hijacking Incident, 2001
• United Airlines Flight 175 Hijacking Incident, 2001
• American Airlines Flight 77 Hijacking Incident, 2001
• United Airlines Flight 93 Hijacking Incident, 2001

Genre/Form

• Illustrated works
• Anecdotes
• Pictorial works

Note

• "Published in association with the National September 11 Memorial & Museum"--Front flap.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Archaeology -- Remembrance -- History -- Tribute.

ISBN

• 0847841332
• 9780847841332
• 0847841715
• 9780847841714

LCCN

^^2013934955

OCLC

• 832315006
• SCSB-11819091

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library