Unseen 9/11 photos bought at house clearance sale

[canetoad]

Archivists who bought a stash of CDs at a house clearance sale found 2,400 photos of Ground Zero in New York taken following the 9/11 attacks in 2001.

They appear to have been taken by an as yet unidentified construction worker who helped to clear up the wreckage of the World Trade Center towers and surrounding area.

The CDs were in poor condition but the data was ultimately retrievable.

The archivists have uploaded the photos to Flickr.

The digital albums include images of Ground Zero itself taken both at ground level and from above, construction staff at work and the damaged interiors of the blocks surrounding the towers.

More: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-48689783

[IcyPeas]

1. What a find!

These are historical. There's over 2,000? I only looked at 3 pages.

It brings you back to the days following 9/11.

[Hekate]

2. Just those two give me chills. Bookmarking.

[Hekate]

3. Scrolling, scrolling: no one wearing a protective face mask, just as I remembered. Goddess...

If these were acquired at a house clearance sale -- well, I hope the worker who took these photos is okay.

[crazytown]

4. This one -hell

[jberryhill]

5. So they aren't even making an attempt to compensate the copyright owner?

This is not going to go well for them.

Buy the CD’s gave them physical possession and ownership of the CD’s. It did not give them the copyright in the photos any more than buying a magazine or DVD gives you the right to reproduce those materials.

Eventually, the photographer, his or her heirs, or the company to which the photographer was under an obligation to assign, is going to figure this out.

[progressoid]

7. +1

According the The Independent, they are trying to track down the photographer.

[jberryhill]

9. Those look like the ones from the guy working for the ironworker's union

If I had a bit more time today, I could probably find ones from the same sequence:

https://www.samhollenshead.com/wtc

[SamKnause]

6. Thanks for the post and the photos link.

[jberryhill]

8. They look like Sam Hollenshead's photos

Sam Hollenshead was a photographer who worked for the ironworker's union, and documented the cleanup work:

https://www.samhollenshead.com/wtc

He's a little touchy about that work, since a lot of it has been abused and taken out of context by asshole 9/11 truthers.