Object Details
- Nino Vendome
- Description
- Description: This apron is covered with uniform patches from grateful patrons of Nino's restaurant, a relief center for World Trade Center recovery workers.
- Context: Many Americans looked for ways to help after the September 11 attacks. One New York City businessman, Antonio Nino Vendome, turned his family restaurant into a relief center. Staffed by volunteers and supported largely by donations, Nino’s served hundreds of thousands of free meals twenty-four hours a day to firefighters, police officers, Red Cross workers, and others at the World Trade Center site. For many, Nino’s became a refuge, a place to find companionship and support as well as a meal. Many of the workers left their organizational patches as tokens of thanks, which Nino attached to kitchen aprons and hung on the wall.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- 2001
- ID Number
- 2002.0237.01
- accession number
- 2002.0237
- Object Name
- Apron
- Measurements
- overall: 86 cm x 117 cm x .5 cm; 33 7/8 in x 46 1/16 in x 3/16 in
- worn
- United States: New York, Manhattan, World Trade Center
- See more items in
- Political and Military History: Armed Forces History, 9/11
- September 11
- National Museum of American History
- subject
- September 11 Terrorist Attacks
- related event
- Attack on the World Trade Center
- September 11th Attacks
- Record ID
- nmah_1189303
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746aa-4d24-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
