Construction Workers Eating Lunch On High Beam

The photograph was taken on september 20 1932 on the 69th floor of the rca building during the last months of construction.

Construction workers eating lunch on high beam.

According to archivists the photograph was in fact prearranged. Lunch atop a skyscraper new york construction workers lunching on a crossbeam is a famous photograph taken in 1932 by charles c. Ebbets since 2003 and erroneously to lewis hine. The image was a publicity effort.

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. 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. 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. Ebbets during construction of the rca building renamed as the ge building in 1986 at rockefeller center.

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. The photograph depicts 11 men eating lunch seated on a girder with their feet dangling 840 feet 260 meters above the new york city streets.