Lunchtime Atop a Skyscraper

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Lunch atop a Skyscraper (Construction Workers Lunching on a Crossbeam, 1932) is a famous photograph taken by Charles C. Ebbets while the GE Building was being constructed.

The photograph depicts eleven men sitting on a girder eating lunch, their feet dangling from the beams hundreds of feet above the New York streets. The photo was snapped on September 29, 1932, and appeared in the New York Herald Tribune shortly after. The photo was taken on the 69th floor in the last several months of construction. Resting on a Girder is a picture of the same workers lying down on the beam taking a nap.

It wasn't until October 2003 that Charles C. Ebbets was officially recognized by the Bettman Archive as the photographer, as well as dozens of other famous Bettman Archive photos which had previously been mis-marked or were marked as photographer unknown.