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.
Old picture of workers on beam.
Those other photos would show the workers playing football holding up american flags or pretending to sleep on the beam.
22 two constructions workers attaching a beam with a crane.
Construction workers eat their lunches atop a steel beam 800 feet above ground at the building site of the rca building.
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The famous photo of the new york construction workers lunching on a crossbeam was taken during construction of the rca building at 30 rockefeller center in manhattan new york city.
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.
Other photos were taken on that day too.
However it is the lunchtime photo that would end up being in the new york herald tribune that october.
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Here the picture seems to say are the immigrants who built by hand.
20 that s an awesome picture of union ironworkers.
1931 photo by horace.
Construction workers resting on steel beam above manhattan 1932.
Recreation of the iconic photo michael crompton.
21 two ironworkers on the pan american building standing on girders at 59th floor above the new york streets 1962.
The photograph depicts eleven men eating lunch seated on a girder with their feet dangling 256 meters 840 feet above the new york city streets.
Lunch atop a skyscraper photograph.
A group of steel workers standing on scaffolding 70 storeys high looking down over new york city from the ge building the centerpiece of rockefeller center c.
Jul 5 2020 high rise workers.