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Workers sitting on steel beam photo.
The famous photo of the new york construction workers lunching on a crossbeam was taken during construction of the rca building at 30 rockefeller center in manhattan new york city.
One of the most iconic photos of american workers is not what it seems but lunch atop a skyscraper has come to represent the country s resilience especially on labor day.
1932 photo of workers on a steel beam business insider it s not manhattan but fargo now has its own iconic skyser photo twin cities labor day lunch atop a skyser was sed photo of new york iron workers during the depression washington post.
The photograph depicts eleven men eating lunch seated on a girder with their feet dangling 256 meters 840 feet above the new york city streets.