Contributed by: LOUIS J. BRIENDEL
Contributor's location on 9/11: I was working on a roof 3 blocks from Ground Zero that morning.
Contributed on: June 17, 2002



This is a picture of a strip of microfilm which was found weeks after September 11, three blocks away at 2 Chase Plaza. The microfilm contains blueprints from 1 World Trade Center, all that remains of this strip of film is 72 frames. The film is burnt at one end and has a few holes in it. The blueprints are not the original ones made by Minoru Yamasaki. The blueprints are of the Bank of America, the Chanq HWA Bank, and a few of the B-Level Parking Areas and rooms. This microfilm is believed to be an archival film of different aspects from projects at 1 World Trade Center. The Bank of America was contacted concerning this strip of microfilm. The Bank of America stated that they did contract work in the early part of 1993, but never had the blueprints put to microfilm. After some research, it is believed that the Port Authority of New York made the microfilm for archival purposes and that the microfilm was stored in the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Photographic Services Office at 1 World Trade Center. In light of all that destruction that morning of September 11,
it's amazing this 72 frames of microfilm survived! Truly a priceless historical artifact!

Cite as: LOUIS J. BRIENDEL, Image #401, The September 11 Digital Archive, 17 June 2002, <http://911digitalarchive.org/images/details/401>.
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