[Worker on cable, Empire State Building construction]

[Worker on cable, Empire State Building construction]

Photograph

Lewis W. Hine

Maker
American, 1874–1940

[Worker on cable, Empire State Building construction]

The Sky Boy


1931
Gelatin silver print
8.8 x 6.5 cm.
Gift of the Photo League Lewis Hine Memorial Committee
Inscriptions verso (pencil): Icarus atop Empire State Bldg. The highest point yet reached by a worker in a man-made structure / H

verso (rubberstamp): Lewis W. Hine Interpretive Photography Hastings-on-Hudson, New York
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