About This Item

  • Call NumberOSOS_0628
  • TitleSeptember 11, 2001 Terrorist Attacks commemorative patch.
  • SummaryPatch depicting a fire fighter's helmet in front of the World Trade Center towers. Text reads: "9-11-2001, FDNY, 343, 5555". Patch was given by the New York City Fire Department to the family of Captain Vernon A. Richard, one of the 343 firefighters killed in the September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001.
  • Date[after 2001]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 image file : digital, TIFF, black-and-white
  • Genreinsignia patches
  • NoteTitle supplied by cataloger. Date from donor. Original patch, [dimensions unknown], digitized on March 08, 2016 as a TIFF. Donated for capture by the Richard family at Boys and Girls High School. Collected through the Our Streets, Our Stories community heritage project, a part of the Culture in Transit grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation's Knight News Challenge.
  • Creator[unknown]
  • SubjectFire fighters; New York (N.Y.). Fire Department; September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 ; Fire fighters--New York (State)--New York ; Machine appliqué
  • CollectionOur Streets, Our Stories collection
  • PlaceManhattan (New York, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsOur Streets, Our Stories collection, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • RightsThis work is covered by a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 license. Users are free to share and adapt the work for non-commercial purposes as long as appropriate credit is given to the source and new material created with this work is shared under the same conditions.