9/11 Tribute Museum visitor cards collection
Description
This collection consists primarily of cards filled out by museum visitors regarding their responses to the programming at the 9/11 Tribute Museum in Lower Manhattan. The cards have been arranged chronologically by month and year. Museum staff devised a set of standardized categories, and staff and volunteers have organized all incoming cards based on these categories within the appropriate month and year designations. Cards are numbered according to this arrangement. For instance, card O.0209.001 would be category: Origami, date: February 2009, 1st card received. Older iterations of this numbering system used a 1 or 2 in parenthesis, (1) or (2), to indicate the recto or the verso of the card, but that designation was eventually discarded. A small subset of this material has been digitized, consisting of 3,000 jpeg images which were also transferred to the Municipal Archives. There is a database (exported to Excel) that describes the cards in great detail at an item-level. Supplemental material includes materials supporting the production of a book about the cards including drafts, proofs, a copy of the book, and other material, a card display binder that was formerly used in the museum, and other material related to the management of the cards, including a list of categories.
Extent
75 cubic feet (280 boxes (1/4 size) and approximately 5 cubic foot boxes of supplemental material)
10 gigabytes (10 gb of digital material consisting of 300,000 image files.)
Dates
2006-2017
Record Groups
External Documents
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