Iron Workers Eating Lunch On Beam

S sergio furnari iron workers eating lunch on a beam rughooking lunch atop a skyser uncovered the new york times 1932 a most famous photograph myherie honoring native americans who built skysers bridges.

Iron workers eating lunch on beam.

But most famously all 11 ate lunch on a steel beam their feet dangling 850 feet above the city s streets. 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. Lunch atop a skyscraper photograph. Workers atop the 70 story rca building in new york s rockefeller center lunch on a steel beam overlooking the city in 1932.

But lunch atop a skyscraper was different. According to archivists the photograph was in fact prearranged. 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. Iron workers spent 11 years building the new structure until it was.

The photograph was taken on september 20 1932 on the 69th floor of the rca building during the last months of construction. Backdropped by a spectacular view of central park the photograph depicts new york city s immigrant workers who were mostly irish and italian but also native american. Sculptures inspired by the famous photograph of the eleven workers eating lunch on a beam during the construction of rockefeller center in 1932. 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.

Ebbets print poster 20 x 16. 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. Available in three sizes there is a magnet at the bottom of each figure so that it can be. 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.

Sculptures inspired by the famous photograph of the eleven workers eating lunch on a beam during the construction of rockefeller center in 1932. New wide beam boat builders. Admiring this iconic nyc photograph i made this resin sculpture that catches the details of the figures and gives new life to this masterpiece.