14/06/2021

An otherwise undistinguished estate sale purchase yielded an incredible archive of never-publicly-be

Taken from above and on the ground, the cache of pictures in large show workers and heavy machinery

Workers stand surrounded by folded metal and the skeletal outlines of office floors which had, just

Discovered on a series of damaged CD’s, the some 2,400 image were captured on a Canon Powershot G1

A higher ground photograph helps encapsulate the devastation of the terror attack, as the remnants o

The Woolworth building peers between two bending steel barriers which once served as the walls of th

Thick plume of dusty smoke emanates from the wreckage of the North Tower, October 16, 2001 - just ov

All of the images were taken in the direct wake of the September 11 attacks, with the vast majority

One worker, wearing a dust mask, poses along side a wrecking ball on October 17 as efforts to clear

May of the photos document a desolate and apocalyptic view from overheard, showing once renowned tou

The garden's once gleaming 10-story glass structure was bent and shattered by falling debris from th

But amid the devastation, the anonymous documenter was able to capture understated human moments too

A hand-drawn sign warns workers of potential falling glass more than two weeks after the attack, on

In what was once an office staff room, a coffee machine and a number of other amenities stand eerily

Next to the Winter Garden Atrium, the AMEX building bears its own wounds from falling debris which s

The AMEX building's ceilings caved in and walls cracked under the strain of the attack

The AMEX building's ceilings caved in and walls cracked under the strain of the attack

A gaping hole is seen torn into the side of the AMEX building caused by the Twin Towers' collapse

By the time the 9/11 clear-up officially ended in May 2002, workers had moved more than 1.8 million

Workers erect a cross made from steel beams atop a concrete block at Ground Zero

Eventually, the pile of debris stabilized enough that construction crews could start using excavator

Two unidentified construction workers pose for the also unknown photographer on October 3, with dust

Feet-up One worker relaxes in front of a menacing backdrop at the base of the World Trade buildings

The September 11 attacks claimed the lives of nearly 3,000 people, after four hijacked commercial ai

A diffraction of light peers over construction workers in New York, on October 18, 2001

A car park is remarkably preserved beneath the World Trade Center site on October 9, with one car se

One construction worker brushes dust from their boots after exiting the WTC site. As many as 45,000

Both of the towers collapsed just 102 minutes after the first commercial airplane struck the North T

'We lost this photographer and many people who were there are sick, dying, and miserable from work t