Otisville NY: Sanitarium/NYC Laboratories/Bio-Tech Inc. Lot of Blueprints/Paper

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Otisville NY: Sanitarium/NYC Laboratories/Bio-Tech Inc. Lot of Blueprints/Paper
Here is an odd lot of various floorplans, papers, and blueprints, plus a photo, from the property that once housed the New York City Tuberculosis Sanitarium in Otisville, also used as an antitoxin laboratory during WWI, a city health research laboratory for many years, and in 1983 sold to Bio-Tech Inc. a private entity which in 2001 transfered the business to a related entity Breonics, which had by 2007 vacated the facility entirely. Here is some history found online:
In 1906, 59 antitoxin horses (some retired from the police force, others purchased from farmers) were moved to Otisville, in upstate New York, where the city health department maintained a 175-acre animal farm and tuberculosis sanitarium. That year, the city operated 318 stations in all five boroughs where physicians could get immediate access to fresh antitoxin, including 4,000 in free antitoxin for the poor. In addition, at least that much was sold to health departments around the nation. The health department continued to mass-produce antitoxin until well after World War II.
From the 1950s to the 1980s, commercial companies assumed control of manufacturing vaccines and blood-based products, and municipal and state health departments around the nation phased out such activities. The Otisville facility was sold to a biotech company in 1983 with the stipulation that the retired horses living there would be cared for until they died.
Got these at a flea market several years back, I have no idea of their history or origin prior to that. Here is a quick list of what is included (see photos below for visual inventory as well):
2 copies of the property survey blueprint made in 1983 for Otisville Biotech Inc. by Amisa M. Gilpatrick Assoc. of Vernon NJ. These are in a binder and can be taken out of their sleeves, one 8-1/2 x 11, and one unfolds to 11x17.
59 copies of the floor plans of the various buildings on the campus, with a key guide map and list of the buildings as well; all in sleeves in the binder.
A 1929 8x10 photograph entitled, "Employees of Antitoxin Laboratory, Otisville, N.Y. 1929." Individuals identified in ink on front, and some additional information about the occasion of the photo written in pencil on the back, with some damage to the paper surface, but most of it should be decypherable. Condition issues on front side as well.
March 1961 4-page Laboratories Newsletter, published for employees by NYC Bureau of Laboratories, etc.
5 folded architectural blueprints from the facility, entailing Modifications of the Existing Horse Barnand Bleeding Room, etc. (1967). One is very faded and hard to read.
High bidder gets it all as one lot.
220208 / 1159 R2/20/2022 AUS
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