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Lewis Hine, who was best known for his use of photography as a means to achieve social reform, was first a teacher of botany and nature studies at the Ethical Culture School in New York. It was while he was teaching that he was given a camera by the head of the school. In his hand, the camera became a powerful means of recording social injustice and labor abuses. Hine's interest in social welfare and in reform movements led him in 1905 to begin his first documentary series; immigrants on…

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A dancer dances on top of a skyscraper, Charleston, USA, 1926 The Memory of the Netherlands

When young photographer Peter Stackpole took the ferry to San Francisco in 1934 to meet the workmen building Oakland Bay Bridge, it began a two-year project that led to a spectacular body of work

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Construction Worker Breaking Up Concrete Pavement, San Francisco, 1987. Man & Jackhammer. Photo Victor Arimondi.

An Iron worker gives a signal to his co-workers.

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Astounding black and white images from 1928 show 'human flies' hanging off the construction site for 55 Broadway - the London Underground headquarters near St James's Park.

Built during the Great Depression, the project took a little more than a year. The dangerous nature of constructing what was then the world's tallest building can be seen in these photos from the New York Public Library's collection.

In 1889, Paris hosted an Exposition Universelle (World’s Fair) to mark the 100-year anniversary of the French Revolution. More than 100 artists submitted competing plans for a monument to be…

From its completion in 1931 until construction of the World Trade Center’s North Tower in 1972, the Empire State Building stood as the tallest building in the world. As of 2012, it is …

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.