Lunch atop a Skyscraper
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lunch-atop-a-skyscraper-190-4857161
title:
Lunch atop a Skyscraper
text:
Lunch atop a Skyscraper is a black-and-white photograph taken on September 20, 1932, of eleven ironworkers sitting on a steel beam of the RCA Building, 850 feet above the ground during the construction of Rockefeller Center in Manhattan, New York City. It was a staged photograph arranged as a publicity stunt, part of a campaign promoting the skyscraper. The photographic negative is in the Bettmann Archive, owned by the Visual China Group. The image is often misattributed to Lewis Hine, but the i
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description:
1932 photograph of workers atop the steelwork of the RCA Building
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunch_atop_a_Skyscraper
date created:
2006-09-08T16:31:04Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T14:52:53Z
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