Eating Lunch On A Steel Beam

Ebbets print poster 20 x 16.

Eating lunch on a steel beam.

But lunch atop a skyscraper has come to represent the country s resilience especially on labor day. A popular misconception about lunch atop a skyscraper is that it was taken on top of the empire state building. Lunch atop a skyscraper 1932 lunch atop a skyscraper new york construction workers lunching on a crossbeam is a photograph taken atop the steelwork of 30 rockefeller plaza during the construction of the rockefeller center in manhattan new york city united states. Some of the tradesmen tossed a football.

The image was a publicity effort. New york lunch atop a skyscraper photograph taken in 1932 by charles c. The image was actually captured atop rockefeller center during its construction. But most famously all 11 ate lunch on a steel beam their feet dangling 850 feet above the city s streets.

Ebbets since 2003 and erroneously to lewis hine. 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. A few pretended to nap. 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. 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. Workers atop the 70 story rca building in new york s rockefeller center lunch on a steel beam.