Construction Workers Eating Lunch On High Beam

The image was a publicity effort.

Construction workers eating lunch on high beam.

Lunch atop a skyscraper captured 11 workers lunching amid construction of new york s rockefeller center on september 20 1932 but there s much more to the story. Formerly attributed to unknown it has been credited to charles c. 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. Ebbets since 2003 and erroneously to lewis hine.

Lunch atop a skyscraper new york construction workers lunching on a crossbeam is a famous photograph taken in 1932 by charles c. Ebbets during construction of the rca building renamed as the ge building in 1986 at rockefeller center. The photograph was taken on september 20 1932 on the 69th floor of the rca building during the last months of construction. 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.

Many mistakenly believe that this photo was shot atop the empire state building but it was actually taken during the construction of rockefeller center. But lunch atop a skyscraper was different.