# Lunchtime atop a Skyscraper

- By: Charles Clyde Ebbets
- Date: 20 September 1932
- Classification: Photograph
- Credit line: Washington Post, "One of the most iconic photos of American workers is not what it seems"
- Museum: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lunch_atop_a_Skyscraper_-_Charles_Clyde_Ebbets.jpg)
- Rights: Public domain
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/commons/thumb/9/9c/Lunch_atop_a_Skyscraper_-_Charles_Clyde_Ebbets.jpg/1920px-Lunch_atop_a_Skyscraper_-_Charles_Clyde_Ebbets.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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."