Business Card
- Description
- eSpeed business card for Donald LaRoy Adams. The business card identifies Donald L. Adams as Assistant Vice President, Relationship Manager, at eSpeed Financial Markets at One World Trade Center.
- Historical Notes
- Raised in Vineland, New Jersey, Donald Adams lived in Chatham with his wife, Heda, and their daughter. The couple met at a beach bar while enrolled at Fairleigh Dickinson University. She was a student, and he was a football player and the bar’s bouncer. On September 11, Donald, a vice president at Cantor Fitzgerald’s subsidiary eSpeed, was on the North Tower’s 105th floor. He was 28 years old.
Curator's Comment
Business cards were ubiquitous survivors of the 9/11 attacks. Most of those in the Museum’s collection were found in recovered wallets and pocketbooks, or retrieved from the paper debris that fell from the towers. Their variety is indicative of the multiplicity of companies and activities anchored at the World Trade Center.
Victims’ relatives and employees of businesses formerly located at the World Trade Center have also donated pristine business cards found at home or in jacket pockets after September 11, 2001. Such cards were often retained as souvenirs of the destroyed landmark or as evidence that placed loved ones at the World Trade Center. Business cards tied to passengers aboard the hijacked aircrafts were also found at the World Trade Center, the Pentagon crash site, and in the impact area of Flight 93 near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
Victims’ relatives and employees of businesses formerly located at the World Trade Center have also donated pristine business cards found at home or in jacket pockets after September 11, 2001. Such cards were often retained as souvenirs of the destroyed landmark or as evidence that placed loved ones at the World Trade Center. Business cards tied to passengers aboard the hijacked aircrafts were also found at the World Trade Center, the Pentagon crash site, and in the impact area of Flight 93 near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
- Accession Number: C.2011.451.10
- Dimensions: 2 in X 3.5 in
- Dimensions (Metric): 5.08 cm X 8.89 cm
- Source: Heda Adams
- Credit Line: Gift of Heda K. Adams, wife of Donald L. Adams
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