Lunch atop a Skyscraper

Everyone has seen the famous photograph titled ‘Lunch atop a Skyscraper’ (New York Construction Workers Lunching on a Crossbeam), but very few have ever stopped to think about who snapped the photo and how exactly they did it. Here is photographer Charles C. Ebbets capturing the iconic image high atop the ironwork of 30 Rockefeller Plaza during the construction of the Manhattan’s Rockefeller Center in New York City in 1932.