Melted File Cabinet
Melted File Cabinet
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- Description
- Description: This crushed file cabinet was recovered from the debris pile at the World Trade Center.
- 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.
- Object Name
- File Cabinet
- recovered
- United States: New York, Manhattan, World Trade Center
- Measurements
- overall: 50 cm x 58 cm x 36 cm; 19 11/16 in x 22 13/16 in x 14 3/16 in
- ID Number
- 2002.0056.01
- accession number
- 2002.0056
- Credit Line
- Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, Port Authority Police Department
- subject
- September 11 Terrorist Attacks
- Attack on the World Trade Center
- September 11th Attacks
- See more items in
- Political and Military History: Armed Forces History, 9/11
- September 11
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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