Workers Sitting On Steel Beam Eating Lunch

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.

Workers sitting on steel beam eating lunch.

Getty images bettmann getty images. 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. Lunch atop a skyscraper was in fact one of many staged photographs taken on september 20 1932 as part of a publicity. But most famously all 11 ate lunch on a steel beam their feet dangling 850 feet above the city s streets.

Admiring this iconic nyc photograph i made this resin sculpture that catches the details of the figures and gives new life to this masterpiece. Available in three sizes there is a magnet at the bottom of each figure so that it can be. Shot of 11 workers eating and smoking 69 floors up was staged for. Lunch atop a skyscraper photograph.

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. Lunch atop a skyscraper new york construction workers lunching on a crossbeam is a famous photograph taken in 1932 by charles c. 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. 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.

A second rarely seen image captured on the same day may reveal why. The picture that proves why iconic photograph of workers eating their lunch on rockefeller beam was all a publicity stunt. Ebbets during construction of the rca building renamed as the ge building in 1986 at rockefeller center. Ebbets print poster 20 x 16.

Workers atop the 70 story rca building in new york s rockefeller center lunch on a steel beam overlooking the city in 1932.