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 NEW YORK (AP) - It started with a clogged dust mask that fell onto the desk of Jan Ramirez on the afternoon of Sept. 11, 2001. A friend had used the paper mask to breathe while fleeing downtown Manhattan as the air was filled with grit and smoke from the World Trade Center towers.
"That dust mask is going to be an important artifact some day," Ramirez recalled the friend telling her.
Today, the mask has become a museum piece, one small part of the largest records trove ever assembled to document a single event.
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