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Lunch atop a Skyscraper is a black-and-white photograph taken on September 20, 1932, of eleven ironworkers sitting on a steel beam 850 feet (260 meters) above the ground during construction of the RCA Building in Manhattan, New York City.
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Foto: Charles Clyde Ebbet/Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain
"Lunch atop a Skyscraper" is a famous black-and-white photograph taken in 1932 during the construction of the RCA Building (now the GE Building) in Rockefeller Center in New York City. The photograph depicts eleven construction workers having lunch on a girder high above the city, with no safety harnesses or other safety equipment visible. It has become an iconic image of the construction of skyscrapers and the spirit of the American worker during the Great Depression.
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