[Laying beams, Empire State Building construction]
Photograph
[Laying beams, Empire State Building construction]
ca. 1931
Gelatin silver print
49.1 x 40.0 cm.
Gift of the Photo League Lewis Hine Memorial Committee
Inscriptions recto-(in ink) "Hine" (in pencil) "71"
verso-(in ink) "Laying a beam, - high up on Empire State." "Hine"
(in pencil) "Photo League"
(rubberstamp) "Lewis W. Hine Interpretive Photography Hastings-on-
Hudson, New York" (applied label with typescript) "'Not in clanging
fights and desperate marches only is heroism to be looked for, but on
every bridge and building that is going up today, on freight trains,
on vessels and lumber-rafts, in mines, among firemen and..."
verso-(in ink) "Laying a beam, - high up on Empire State." "Hine"
(in pencil) "Photo League"
(rubberstamp) "Lewis W. Hine Interpretive Photography Hastings-on-
Hudson, New York" (applied label with typescript) "'Not in clanging
fights and desperate marches only is heroism to be looked for, but on
every bridge and building that is going up today, on freight trains,
on vessels and lumber-rafts, in mines, among firemen and..."
