Construction Workers Eating Lunch On A Beam

Sculptures inspired by the famous photograph of the eleven workers eating lunch on a beam during the construction of rockefeller center in 1932.

Construction workers eating lunch on a beam.

The image was a publicity effort. A few pretended to nap. According to archivists the photograph was in fact prearranged. Some of the tradesmen tossed a football.

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. Source formerly attributed to unknown it has been credited to charles c. Ebbets since 2003 and erroneously to lewis hine. Construction workers eat their lunches atop a steel beam 800 feet above ground at the building site of the rca building.

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. It showed the world that new york. Image by bettmann corbis recently viewed clear items. 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 30s.

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. 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. Lunch on a beam during the construction of rockefeller center in 1932. Getty images construction workers relax on the beams of a construction building in new york city.

Capturing lunch atop a skyscraper. One of the most iconic photos of american workers is not what it seems but lunch atop a skyscraper has come to represent the country s resilience especially on labor day.