Workplace Health & Safety
Posted August 29, 2008 
Comments(2)
Comments(2) These photographs were taken by Charles Ebbets in the early 1930’s depicting daily scenes of the workers who participated in the construction of the skyscrapers between 1920 and 1935. The photographs were taken in New York on September 29th 1932 and published in the New York Herald Tribune in the Sunday supplement of Oct 2nd of that year. They were taken on the 69 floor of the 70 that is the GE building in the Rockefeller Centre.
‘Lunchtime atop a Skyscraper!’
Paparazzi, will they stop at nothing!
Crikey is the bloke on the left drinking from a hip flask!
What is more dangerous for your health; smoking or sleeping on a pylon?!!
“Resting on a Girder.”
They would have to be posing for some of them. Especially the last one, nobody could trust themselves that much to sleep on that pylon, crazy.
Jeanette,
Thank you for this. The first photo I saw many years ago in a dentist’s waiting room, it took my thoughts of what was to come. But I was never able to find out where the photo came from. Just shows you learn every day.