Lunch at 800 feet.

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1932 * NEW YORK CITY

Modern skyscrapers, which began sprouting in New York and Chicago in the late 1800s, symbolized America's growing industrial might. This photo of 11 construction workers eating their lunch more than 800 feet above Manhattan was taken as a publicity stunt to promote the construction of the RCA building (now the GE building, part of Rockefeller Center). Captured during the height of the Depression, the image served as a reminder of the nation's can-do attitude even in a...