Sign
Photo credit: 9/11 Memorial staff
Accession Number: C.2015.57.6
Dimensions: 20 in X 8.5 in X 0.5 in
Dimensions (Metric): 50.8 cm X 21.59 cm X 1.27 cm
Dimensions (Metric): 50.8 cm X 21.59 cm X 1.27 cm
Credit Line: Collection 9/11 Memorial Museum, Transfer from the New-York Historical Society
Description
Tribute sign with a faded image of the flag of Mexico printed on a piece of paper. Below the flag is a bright green piece of paper with handwritten text: “In memory of the delivery boys who died | En memoria de los delivery boys que murieron | Sep 11 2001." An image of the Virgin Mary is attached in the lower left. The sign is taped together with pieces of clear packing tape, heavily soiled.
Tribute sign with a faded image of the flag of Mexico printed on a piece of paper. Below the flag is a bright green piece of paper with handwritten text: “In memory of the delivery boys who died | En memoria de los delivery boys que murieron | Sep 11 2001." An image of the Virgin Mary is attached in the lower left. The sign is taped together with pieces of clear packing tape, heavily soiled.
Historical Notes
Locked to a street sign on Broadway near Cedar Street, a block from the World Trade Center, an abandoned bicycle soon became an impromptu shrine to the messengers and delivery persons presumed to have been killed at the World Trade Center. Flowers, coins, notes, religious items, and this sign were left at the memorial in the months that followed.
Locked to a street sign on Broadway near Cedar Street, a block from the World Trade Center, an abandoned bicycle soon became an impromptu shrine to the messengers and delivery persons presumed to have been killed at the World Trade Center. Flowers, coins, notes, religious items, and this sign were left at the memorial in the months that followed.
