NEW YORK CITY, c1920. Construction workers atop a skyscraper in New York City. Photograph, c1910
Lunch atop a Skyscraper is a black-and-white photograph taken on September 20, 1932, of eleven ironworkers sitting on a steel beam 850 feet (260 meters) above the ground on the sixty-ninth floor of the RCA Building in Manhattan, New York City. It was arranged as a publicity stunt, part of a campaign promoting the skyscraper.
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It's been over eight decades since the image was printed in the New York Herald-Tribune on October 2, 1932, and it's been one of the most well-recognized pieces of photography ever since. Here.
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1932's "Lunch atop a Skyscraper (New York Construction Workers Lunching on a Crossbeam)" is one of the lighter-hearted photos to create such a lasting public impression.
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Dec 04, 2023 Matt Growcoot The Beam in New York. | Tishman Speyer. A new attraction in New York City is giving visitors the opportunity to recreate the famous photo of construction.
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The Men in the "Lunch Atop a Skyscraper" Photograph. In 2010, Seán Ó Cualáín and his brother, Éamonn, happened upon a copy of it on the wall of a small pub in Shanaglish, Galway, Ireland. "Next to the photo was a note from a Pat Glynn, the son of a local emigrant, who claimed his father and uncle-in-law were on the beam," says Seán.
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0:00 / 2:14 The skyscrapers of Manhattan needed a new, bolder type of construction worker. They got them in 'roughnecks' - hardened men who worked without safety harness.
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Subscribed 125K 9.4M views 7 years ago We don't know their names, nor the photographer who immortalized them, but these men lunching 800 feet up show the daredevil spirit behind Manhattan's.
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History Mohawk Ironworkers Give Rise to NYC Skyscrapers Nov 19, 2021 November is Native American Heritage Month. In honor of contributions made by Mohawk, or Kanienʼkehá:ka, ironworkers who helped construct New York City's iconic skyline, the Flatiron Partnership highlights the role of the group in the area's building boom era of the 20th century.
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A knuckle boom truck was lifting a load of plywood when the boom gave way and fell, according to the New York City Department of Buildings. Video obtained by PIX11 News showed FDNY members working.
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Lunch Atop a Skyscraper Photograph: The Story Behind the Famous Shot. For 80 years, the 11 ironworkers in the iconic photo have remained unknown, and now, thanks to new research, two of them have.
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"Lunch Atop A Skyscraper" captured 11 workers lunching amid construction of New York's Rockefeller Center on September 20, 1932 — but there's much more to the story. Wikimedia Commons "Lunch Atop A Skyscraper" shows 11 ironworkers eating on a beam of the 69th floor of New York's RCA Building during construction on September 20, 1932.
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Bettmann "The Beam" recreates the famous 1932 "Lunch Atop a Skyscraper" photograph, which captured ironworkers during a break on a beam during construction of 30 Rockefeller Plaza. Visitors who.
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For generations, Mohawk Indians have left their reservations in or near Canada to raise skyscrapers in the heart of New York City. High atop a New York University building one bright September day, Mohawk ironworkers were just setting some steel when the head of the crew heard a big rumble to the north.. The first workers came from the Kahn.
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Lunch Atop A Skyscraper shows a group of New York construction workers casually taking a lunch break while they sit on a beam hundreds of feet in the air. In fact Corbis Images - who own the rights to the photo - say that it is the biggest selling historical image in their collection, topping photographs of Albert Einstein and Martin Luther King.