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April 18, 2024

“Lunchtime Atop a Skyscraper”

This photo shows workers on their lunch break 840-feet above ground, while working on a building that is now the GE Building, 30 Rockefeller Plaza. It was taken by Photographer Charles C. Ebbets on September 20, 1932, while the building was closed to being finished, people working on the 69th of 70th floors.

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