Photos from 9/11 destruction found on CD-ROM at Yard Sale

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An otherwise undistinguished estate sale purchase yielded an incredible archive of never-before publicly seen photographs of the Ground Zero clean-up operation, providing a haunting glimpse of 9/11’s immediate aftermath. Discovered on a series of damaged CD’s, the some 2,400 images were captured on a Canon Powershot G1 by a currently unidentified member of the World Trade Center clean-up crew who has since died from complications related to his work on the site. Taken from above and on the ground, the cache of pictures in large show workers and heavy machinery submerged in a deep and ominous chasm of scorched steel, folded metal and the skeletal outlines of office floors which had, just days before, brimmed and bustled with a human pulse. Others document a desolate and apocalyptic view from overhead, showing once renowned tourist hot-spots, such as the Winter Garden Atrium, beaten, dust-clad and lifeless.

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