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America Rebuilds: A Year at Ground Zero
Ground Zero Profiles
Engineering the Clean-Up
Artifacts
Video Stories
Imagining the Future
Dialogue
About the Program

Imagery for "Artifacts" is provided courtesy of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which retains all rights to their usage. The pictures were selected from the Port Authority's "Recommendations for the Salvage of Objects for Use in a Future World Trade Center Archive."

Artifacts

Elevator Parts

Elevator Parts

The architects of the World Trade Center created a pioneering system of nearly 200 local and express elevators, which reduced the number of elevators required to service upper floors. This increased the amount of rentable space on those floors, and allowed the Towers to reach new heights.

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