Mar 18, 2010 - Sale 2207

Sale 2207 - Lot 187

Price Realized: $ 3,360
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(NEW YORK CITY.) Group of blueprints of the World Trade Center. 152 rolled prints, various sizes and conditions, most about 22 x 35 inches with minor tears and scattered manuscript notes. New York, mostly 1993-97

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These blueprints were issued to electrical contractors in the years before the final attack on the World Trade Center in 2001. While some prints are technical schematics, the collection includes plans of many of the floors of the Twin Towers. Includes: Group of 8 blueline floor plans, heavily annotated, trimmed, and more worn than the later prints, titled in manuscript "Tower MER Sprinkler Installation," undated but circa 1980s? Group of 18 photocopies and prints, various sizes, titled in manuscript "Tower 1 & 2 Fire Alarm System, Riser Diagram." Most of these prints are dated 26 March 1993, just a month after the first World Trade Center bombing. Set of 10 prints titled in manuscript "Towers 1 & 2 Electrical," all dated in manuscript 21 October 1993 Group of 4 prints titled in manuscript "Observation Deck MXLRV Transponder," 25 September 1996 Set of 112 blueline prints titled "Fire Alarm System Device Upgrade, Phase III, 2 World Trade Center," including plans of several floors, issued by Port Authority, September 1997.