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Author

Charles Clyde Ebbets (1905–1978)
Description	American photographer
Date of birth/death	18 August 1905	14 July 1978
Location of birth/death	Gadsden	Paris
Authority file	: Q648869 VIAF: 84232625 ULAN: 500608665 NKC: js20040628003 RKD: 293581

Title

Lunchtime atop a Skyscraper

Object type

photograph

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

Collection

Internet Archive

	Location	Fourth Church of Christ, Scientist , United States
	Coordinates	37° 46′ 56.18″ N, 122° 28′ 17.71″ W
	Established	May 1996
	Website	archive.org
	Authority file	: Q461 VIAF: 123343900 ISNI: 0000000492602112 LCCN: n2001062537 NLA: 54356800 Open Library: OL9567105A WorldCat

Bettmann Archive
Location	Pennsylvania , United States
Coordinates	41° 06′ 39.6″ N, 79° 53′ 13.2″ W
Website	corporate.corbis.com/citizenship/bettmann-archive
Authority file	: Q850178 VIAF: 240063952 MusicBrainz: d799e5e2-295d-4f14-87b3-7d0025b05560 SUDOC: 159220866

Object location

40° 45′ 32.3″ N, 73° 58′ 45.8″ W

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Place of creation

United States

References

100 Photographs: The Most Influential Images of All Time

Source

Washington Post, "One of the most iconic photos of American workers is not what it seems"

Permission
(Reusing this file)

Public domain. No renewal here or here.

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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This work is in the public domain because it was published in the United States between 1931 and 1963, and although there may or may not have been a copyright notice, the copyright was not renewed. For further explanation, see Commons:Hirtle chart and the copyright renewal logs.
Note that it may still be copyrighted in jurisdictions that do not apply the rule of the shorter term for US works (depending on the date of the author's death), such as Canada (70 years p.m.a.), Mainland China (50 years p.m.a., not Hong Kong or Macao), Germany (70 years p.m.a.), Mexico (100 years p.m.a.), Switzerland (70 years p.m.a.), and other countries with individual treaties.

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