
“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.
For nearly a century, the iconic photograph “Lunch Atop A Skyscraper” has been uniquely evocative of everything from New York City to the Great Depression to America itself. The photo features 11 construction workers casually having lunch while dangling 850 feet above the Big Apple one September day in 1932. But while its imagery is legendary, few know the remarkable story behind it.
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