Person of the Century
Person of the Century
(Update)
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Lunch atop a Skyscraper is a black-and-white photograph taken on September 20, 1932, of eleven ironworkers sitting on a steel beam of the RCA Building, 850 feet (260 meters) above the ground during the construction of Rockefeller Center in Manhattan, New York City. It was a staged photograph arranged as a publicity stunt, part of a campaign promoting the skyscraper.
Sadly the original image was just capitalist propaganda. Impressive yes, but an entirely manufactured celebration of the worker for cynical advertising reasons.
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You might think that nothing of value would be lost, but did you account for the steel beam?
That much steel is worth a good bit.
Yeah, they might land on someone with value!