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Is the famous picture "Lunchtime a top a skyscraper" real?

Is the famous picture "Lunchtime  a top a skyscraper" real?

 


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Lunch atop a Skyscraper (New York Construction Workers Lunching on a Crossbeam) is a famous photograph taken by Charles C. Ebbets during construction of the GE Building at Rockefeller Center in 1932.

The photograph depicts 11 men eating lunch, seated on a girder with their feet dangling hundreds of feet above the New York City streets. Ebbets took the photo on September 29, 1932, and it appeared in the New York Herald Tribune in its Sunday photo supplement on October 2. Taken on the 69th floor of the GE Building during the last several months of construction, the photo Resting on a Girder shows the same workers napping on the beam.

The copyright owner of the photograph, the Bettman Archive, did not recognize Charles C. Ebbets as the photographer until October 2003 (reportedly after months of investigation by a private investigation firm).[1] Many posters and prints of the photograph continue to list the artist as ‘unknown.’

Posted 2007-04-27T20:21:21Z
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a bit hard to believe no? thanks

Posted 2007-04-30T08:32:37Z
 
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I have read in Internet that it was Charles Clyde Ebbet who has taken this photo when this men were working during the construction of the Rockfeller center.

They are at midday and are eating.

 There is another photo, from the same photograph, showing then sleeping. 

 

Out of the way!

 

Aurélie

Posted 2007-12-01T12:46:20Z
 
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wow.. so stunning and wonderful photo

i like it very much

commented by nikon d60

Posted 2008-04-18T19:34:17Z
 
 
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i don't believe... it's for true maybe

Posted 2008-06-12T19:22:08Z
 
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Of course it is real!

These men are Ironworkers & do this even today! Except now they "Tie off."

It is an amazing job & I am blessed to have 2 Ironworkers in my family. Ironworkers are what built America: Since 1896!

I also am blessed to work as secretary of a Ironworkers' Union Hall.

Posted 2008-08-20T14:19:39Z
 

my husband is an ironworker here in ct and has worked in ny as well as ri. this photo (more like a huge poster) hangs in a frame in my living room. there is no way this pic was cropped since they had no real way of doing that when the pic was taken. i hate to think of my hubby out there on a daily basis but thank god the saftey has improved! i have a pic of my husband working on the 16th story hanging over the edge like they are but thankfully he is tied off!

Posted 2008-11-26T19:20:07Z

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