Eating Lunch On A Steel Beam

Getty images an iron worker balances himself on a beam 15 floors high.

Eating lunch on a steel beam.

A few pretended to nap. 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. 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.

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. Ebbets since 2003 and erroneously to lewis hine. Some of the tradesmen tossed a football. But lunch atop a skyscraper has come to represent the country s resilience especially on labor day.

But lunch atop a skyscraper was different. New york lunch atop a skyscraper photograph taken in 1932 by charles c. Source formerly attributed to unknown it has been credited to charles c. But most famously all 11 ate lunch on a steel beam their feet dangling 850 feet above the city s streets.

Workers atop the 70 story rca building in new york s rockefeller center lunch on a steel beam. 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. The image was a publicity effort.