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Port Authority Archives Update



Dear colleagues:

I just received confirmation from Patrick Caggiano, Deputy Director of
the Port Authority of NY & NJ that the entire contents of the library,
stored in a sub-basement of the World Trade Center, were destroyed
September 11.
Here at Rutgers we have some Port Authority-related material in the
collection of Professor Angus Gillespie, in the form his research
materials for his book about the World Trade Center.  He copied a large
amount of material from the Port Authority archives.  The collection
also contains publicity materials amount the building of the World Trade
Center, etc.  Because so much was destroyed, the research value of this
collection has now of course been heightened.  It has been reported to
Kathleen Roe as part of NY state's efforts to document the disaster and
salvage materials.

Fernanda Perrone

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Fernanda Helen Perrone
Project Archivist
Special Collections and University Archives
Rutgers University Libraries
169 College Avenue
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
732 932-7006  FAX: 732 932-7012
email: hperrone@rci.rutgers.edu
http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rulib/spcol/spcol.htm

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