Eating Lunch On A Steel Beam

The image was actually captured atop rockefeller center during its construction.

Eating lunch on a steel beam.

The sight of 11 rockefeller center construction workers casually eating lunch across a beam hanging 850 feet in the air was a hopeful look at life in the. A few pretended to nap. But lunch atop a skyscraper was different. Workers atop the 70 story rca building in new york s rockefeller center lunch on a steel beam.

A popular misconception about lunch atop a skyscraper is that it was taken on top of the empire state building. Ebbets print poster 20 x 16. The image was a publicity effort. This item hse 1932 iconic photo of eleven ironworkers eating their lunch sitting on steel beam classic poster 24x36 2 to 5 days shipping from usa.

But lunch atop a skyscraper has come to represent the country s resilience especially on labor day. The image of the 11 workers perched on a beam 69 floors above manhattan eating lunch sharing banter and lighting cigarettes is one of the world s most reproduced. Source formerly attributed to unknown it has been credited to charles c. Getty images an iron worker balances himself on a beam 15 floors high.

Some of the tradesmen tossed a football. 29 sep 1932 construction workers eat their lunches atop a steel beam 800 feet above ground at the building site of the rca building in rockefeller center. New york lunch atop a skyscraper photograph taken in 1932 by charles c.