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Lewis Wickes Hine: The Construction of the Empire State Building, 1930-1931

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Lewis Wickes Hine.
1930's. Copyright
Sol Libsohn 1996.
[91H062.108]

(A worker
hanging on to
two steel beams)
ID: 79839

(A worker at the
edge of a platform,
looking north)
ID:79840

(Three workers
securing a rivet)
ID:79841

(Cranes hoisting machinery) ID:79842

(Cranes hoisting steel)
ID:79843

(Unloading steel from a truck)
ID:79844

(Plumbing up a column)
ID:79846

(Hoisting a large beam. 1930's.)
ID:79847

(Workers guiding hoisting cable.:1930's.)
ID:79848

(Worker signaling below, view looking north east)
ID:79849

(Worker posing for the camera)
ID:79850

(Worker torch-cutting steel)
ID:79851

(Connecting the beams)
ID:79852

(Bringing up steel with a crane)
ID:79853

(Icarus, high up on Empire State)
ID:79854

(Interior view of a floor, workers having lunch)
ID:79855

(Worker pulling on a rope)
ID:79856

(Worker screwing a bolt into a beam)
ID:79857

(Workers guiding hoisting cable)
ID:79858

(Two workers securing a rivet)
ID:79859

(Two workers inspecting steel)
ID:79860

(Worker holding a bucket)
ID:79861

(Worker bolting a steel support)
ID:79862

(Crew attaching rivets)
ID:79863

(Two workers repairing machinery)
ID:79864

(View of the building rising to about sixteen stories)
ID:79865

 

 

Anthony T. Troncale
Created: 6/05/96

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