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The World Trade Center: Rescue, Recovery Response
http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/wtc
An Online Exhibit from the New York State Museum
The New York State Museum has launched an online exhibit of The World Trade Center: Rescue, Recovery, Response, which opened at the Museum a year after the September 2001 attacks and chronicles the history of the World Trade Center (WTC), the attacks, rescue efforts, recovery operation and the public response that followed. The new site http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/wtc will allow visitors access to the same objects, images and videos found in the WTC exhibition gallery, as well as interactives and podcasts of oral histories created exclusively for the web. The exhibition includes facts and figures about the World Trade Center, a construction video and information on the 1993 WTC attack. Also featured are photographs of objects from the World Trade Center, which include crushed computer fragments, keys, elevator door signs, security and visitor badges and a souvenir sold at one of the building's gift shops. The Recovery section documents the work that took lace at Staten Island's Fresh Kills facility, whose Dutch-derived name means "freshwater stream." In the Response section, images of the front pages of the nation's leading newspapers tell the story of the country's initial reaction to the events of 9-11. A link to a photo of a fence at Liberty Plaza, in the Museum's WTC collection, allows web visitors to pan across the image to see the variety of spontaneous memorials that arose in the weeks following September 11. Through the "voices" link visitors will hear from Patty Clark, a Port Authority of New York and New Jersey employee who fled from the towers' upper floors. Lee Ielpi, a retired firefighter, will recount how he initially rushed to Ground Zero to search for his son, also a firefighter, but later became much more involved in the recovery effort. As time goes on, the online exhibition also will allow visitors increasing access to the Museum's WTC collection not currently on display.
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