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Lunch atop a Skyscraper  wikidata:Q1850543 reasonator:Q1850543
Author
Charles Clyde Ebbets (1905–1978)  wikidata:Q648869
 
Description American photographer
Date of birth/death 18 August 1905 Edit this at Wikidata 14 July 1978 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Gadsden Edit this at Wikidata Paris Edit this at Wikidata
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creator QS:P170,Q648869
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Title
Lunchtime atop a Skyscraper Edit this at Wikidata
title QS:P1476,en:"Lunchtime atop a Skyscraper Edit this at Wikidata"
label QS:Len,"Lunchtime atop a Skyscraper Edit this at Wikidata"
label QS:Les,"Lunch atop a Skyscraper"
label QS:Leu,"Lunch atop a Skyscraper"
label QS:Lca,"Lunch atop a Skyscraper"
label QS:Lde,"Mittagspause auf einem Wolkenkratzer"
label QS:Lfa,"ناهار در بالای آسمان‌خراش"
label QS:Lzh,"摩天楼顶上的午餐"
label QS:Ltr,"Bir Gökdelen Tepesinde Öğle Yemeği"
label QS:Lja,"摩天楼の頂上でランチ"
label QS:Lsk,"Obed na vrchole mrakodrapu"
label QS:Lhe,"ארוחת צהריים על גורד שחקים"
label QS:Lfi,"Lunch atop a Skyscraper"
label QS:Leo,"Lunĉo sur Nubskrapulo"
label QS:Lit,"Lunch atop a Skyscraper"
label QS:Lfr,"Lunch atop a Skyscraper"
label QS:Lko,"고층 빌딩 꼭대기에서의 점심 식사"
label QS:Lbr,"Lunch atop a Skyscraper"
label QS:Luk,"Обід на хмарочосі"
label QS:Lsr-el,"Ručak na oblakoderu"
label QS:Lsr-ec,"Ручак на облакодеру"
label QS:Llv,"Pusdienas uz debesskrāpja"
label QS:Laf,"Lunch atop a Skyscraper"
label QS:Lsr,"Ручак на облакодеру"
label QS:Lsv,"Lunch atop a Skyscraper"
label QS:Lhy,"Ճաշ երկնաքերի վրա (լուսանկար)"
label QS:Lms,"Lunch atop a Skyscraper"
label QS:Laz,"Göydələndə nahar"
label QS:Lid,"Lunch atop a Skyscraper"
label QS:Lpl,"Lunch atop a Skyscraper"
label QS:Lml,"ലഞ്ച് എടോപ് എ സ്കൈസ്‌ക്രാപ്പർ"
label QS:Lnl,"Lunch atop a Skyscraper"
label QS:Lmk,"Ручек на облакодерот"
label QS:Lpt,"Lunch atop a Skyscraper"
label QS:Lru,"Обед на небоскрёбе"
label QS:Lvi,"Bữa trưa trên nóc nhà chọc trời"
label QS:Lnds,"Middagspaus op en Wulkenkrater"
label QS:Lar,"غداء على قمة ناطحة سحاب"
label QS:Lel,"Γεύμα στην κορυφή ενός ουρανοξύστη (φωτογραφία)"
label QS:Lcs,"Oběd na vrcholu mrakodrapu"
Object type photograph Edit this at Wikidata
Description
English: Lunch atop a Skyscraper, distributed by Acme Newspictures, September 1932.


Original caption: "While New York's thousands rush to crowded restaurants and congested lunch counters for their noon day lunch, these intrepid steel workers atop the 70 story RCA building in Rockefeller Center get all the air and freedom they want by lunching on a steel beam with a sheer drop of over 800 feet to the street level. The RCA building is the largest office building in terms of office space in the world."
Español: Almuerzo sobre un rascacielos
Date 20 September 1952 Edit this at Wikidata
Object location
40° 45′ 32.3″ N, 73° 58′ 45.8″ W Edit this at Structured Data on Commons Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo
Place of creation United States Edit this at Wikidata
References 100 Photographs: The Most Influential Images of All Time  Edit this at Wikidata
Source Washington Post, "One of the most iconic photos of American workers is not what it seems"
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For further analysis of the image's copyright status, see: Paul J. Heald (2020) Copy This Book! What Data Tells Us about Copyright and the Public Good, Stanford University Press, pp. 23−31
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