Lunch atop a Skyscraper

Lunch on a skyscraper (English Lunch atop a Skyscraper ) is a famous photograph that was taken in 1932 during the creation of Rockefeller Center during construction of the RCA Building. Since 1986, General Electric Building The recorded RCA Building is, the photograph was taken by Charles C. Ebbets.

Erroneously the photo for a long time his colleague Lewis Hine was attributed, who had in 1930 been awarded the contract to accompany the construction of the Empire State Building Photographic. It was not until 2003, according to research in the Bettmann Archive assigned the image to its true creator.

The photo shows eleven men who make on a steel backing their lunch break and let their feet out more than 200 meters above the streets of Manhattan in New York dangle; any fuses of individual persons, if any, is not apparent. The result is the image on September 29, 1932, is a short time later appeared in the New York Herald Tribune. It was taken from the 69th floor of the building.

The construction work under the direction of John D. Rockefeller lasted from 1931 to 1940, Rockefeller Center today includes 21 high-rise buildings.

Persons in the photo

Many steelworkers who helped shape New York Skyline - including some in the photo - belonged to the tribe of North American Mohawk Indians. The Mohawks are very proud of their tradition as " Skywalker ", which now goes back six generations. Mohawk Indians built the Empire State Building, the RCA Building, the Daily News Building and many others.

In recent years, the identities of most of the men of their descendants or acquaintances have been notified. Starting from the left, is the first steel workers Matty O'Shaughnessy from County Galway, Ireland. The third man was identified as Austin Lawton of King's Cove, Newfoundland, although the same man has been identified as Sheldon London from New York by his great niece and also when Ralph Rawding from New York by his granddaughter. The fifth man is Claude Stagg of Catalina, Newfoundland. The sixth man is as specified by the husband of a niece of John Johansson Okome in Sweden, according to other sources (namely the Son ) but John Patrick Madden. The seventh man was identified by his daughter as John Doucette. A nephew recognized in the eighth person Francis Michael Rafferty, the ninth man to be his lifelong best friend Stretch Donahue been. The tenth man is Thomas Norton ( born Naughton ) of County Galway, Ireland. The eleventh man was both Patrick " Sonny " Glynn of County Galway, Ireland, as well as Gusti Popovič, a Slovak from the former Czechoslovakia identified.

Resting on a Girder (Eng. rest on a support ) is another photo that has made Ebbets on the same day and that four of the eleven steel workers is lying on the same steel beams.

Reception

The image has been widely quoted, as for example by the Minions in I - Despicable Me 2