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Lunch Atop a Skyscraper

This famous photo has fascinated people for almost 80 years. Sometimes identified as an Empire State Building photo, it was actually taken by Charles C. Ebbets during construction of the RCA Building - renamed the GE Building in 1988 - which is also now known as “30 Rock”. Shot on the 69th floor during the last several months of construction, the photograph depicts 11 construction workers eating lunch while seated on a girder with their feet dangling hundreds of feet above the New York City streets. Ebbets took the photo on September 29, 1932, and it appeared in the New York Herald Tribune in its Sunday photo supplement on October 2.

Usually the photo is displayed as a poster or put in a very basic frame. This design reinforces the girder theme through both the frame and fillet and emphasizes the surroundings of unfinished steel work. The subtle vertical stripes in the mat accentuate the extreme height of the subjects’ precarious perch and allow the artwork to appear equally natural in either a casual or more formal setting.

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