Iron Workers Eating Lunch On Beam

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.

Iron workers eating lunch on beam.

The photograph titled lunch atop a skyscraper or new york construction workers lunching on a crossbeam was taken 69 floors from the ground and was first printed in the new york herald tribune on oct. Shot of 11 workers eating and smoking 69 floors up was staged for. Backdropped by a spectacular view of central park the photograph depicts new york city s immigrant workers who were mostly irish and italian but also native american. Workers atop the 70 story rca building in new york s rockefeller center lunch on a steel beam overlooking the city in 1932.

But most famously all 11 ate lunch on a steel beam their feet dangling 850 feet above the city s streets. Audi beam rings q7. New wide beam boat builders. The story behind the famous shot for 80 years the 11 ironworkers in the iconic photo have remained unknown and now thanks to new research two of them have.

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 new york lunch atop a skyscraper photograph taken in 1932 by charles c. But lunch atop a skyscraper was different. The picture that proves why iconic photograph of workers eating their lunch on rockefeller beam was all a publicity stunt. Lunch atop a skyscraper photograph.

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. S sergio furnari iron workers eating lunch on a beam rughooking lunch atop a skyser uncovered the new york times 1932 a most famous photograph myherie honoring native americans who built skysers bridges. Ebbets print poster 20 x 16. The photograph was taken on september 20 1932 on the 69th floor of the rca building during the last months of construction.

According to archivists the photograph was in fact prearranged. Available in three sizes there is a magnet at the bottom of each figure so that it can be. Iron workers spent 11 years building the new structure until it was.