Lunch atop a skyscraper

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a man standing on top of a tall building holding a camera in front of him

Many of us love taking photos of all the little joys in life—the goofiness of a pet, the not-so-good-looking cookies you baked for the first time, or the unexpected flowers you received. It's fascinating how smartphones have made it so easy for us to capture precious moments forever. But this was not always the case. In the past, not many people had the luxury of clicking photographs at any time. So, it's interesting to see past photos that reflect a rich tapestry of historical events…

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an old and new photo of people sitting on the edge of a high - rise building

Lunch atop a Skyscraper is a famous black-and-white photograph taken during construction of the RCA Building (renamed the GE Building in 1986) at Rockefeller Center in New York City, United States. Below is a picture of construction workers who recreated the classic photo in 2011 by posing on a girder 800ft above London.

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an old photo of men sitting on top of a building with the caption don't fear the reader

When you look back at these old photos of skyscraper construction, you'll see men way up high without harnesses, walking along beams suspended hundreds of feet above the street, and swinging on cables.

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a man standing on top of a tall building holding a camera over his shoulder and looking down at the city

The picture, of these 11 men casually eating, chatting and sneaking a smoke as if they weren’t 256m / 840 feet above Manhattan, was taken on the 69th floor as part of a promotional campaign for the massive skyscraper complex, during the depression time (we are talking about 1931-32). Lewis Hine’s celebrated portrait of 11 Depression-era ironworkers, lunching along an I-beam on the unfinished Empire State Building. No?

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