[Two men on hoisting ball, Empire State Building]

[Two men on hoisting ball, Empire State Building]

Photograph

Lewis W. Hine

Maker
American, 1874–1940

[Two men on hoisting ball, Empire State Building]

ca. 1931
Gelatin silver print
24.1 x 19.1 cm.
Gift of the Photo League Lewis Hine Memorial Committee
Inscriptions verso (rubberstamp): Lewis W. Hine
Interpretive Photography
Hastings-on-Hudson, New York

(in ink): 'Riding the ball' on Empire State.
(in pencil): Like spiders spinning a fabric of steel across the sky
1E 82 25 (circled)
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