06 Feb 1925, New York, New York, USA --- New York: The new telephone company skyscraper at Vesey Street and the North River under construction. Photo shows the iron workers perched on a girder twenty stories in the air and enjoying their lunch. Unconcerned about the twenty story drop below. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
29 Sep 1932, Manhattan, New York, New York, USA --- Construction workers eat their lunches atop a steel beam 800 feet above ground, at the building site of the RCA Building in Rockefeller Center. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
13 Nov 1929, New York, New York, USA --- 11/13/1929-New York, NY: Jack Reilly, intrepid photographer, precariously perched from the 72 story of the world's tallest building, the 74 story Bank of Manhattan structure, in progress of construction in Wall Street, New York City. A panorama of New York's prominent business section is seen in the background, with the Woolworth building, in the upper left. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
early 20th century, Probably USA --- Playing golf in mid-air: Stunts. A cigarette smoking golfer and his caddy teeing off on the girder of a building under construction high over an unidentified cityscape. Undated photo. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
ca. 1940s, Manhattan, New York, New York, USA --- A man lights a fellow worker's cigarette as they take a break on a Chrysler Building gargoyle. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
ca. 1930s --- Atop the Whitehall building in New York, world Champion trick shot golfer Jack Redmond demonstrates his golfing skill by teeing off from Miss Muriel Greer's forehead. --- Image by © Underwood & Underwood/CORBIS
1926, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA --- Construction Workers in Philadelphia --- Image by © E.O. Hoppé/CORBIS
10 Jun 1930, Manhattan, New York, New York, USA --- Far above downtown Manhattan, a man holds onto a girder and waves from the construction site of the Empire State Building. June 10, 1930. --- Image by © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS
1928-1930, Manhattan, New York, New York, USA --- Quite a festive touch is lent to the majestic skyline of New York City, by Ramon and Rosita, internationally known dance artists, as they demonstrate the Southampton Hop, new Terpsichorean number, atop of the Chanin Building. The awe-inspiring and modernistic spire of the Chrysler Building looms in the background. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
23 Oct 1929, Manhattan, New York, New York, USA --- New York: Twenty-seven years of skyscraper building have made Michael Borsh contemptuous of great heights. He is eating a sandwich on top of the Chrysler building, 800 feet above the street. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
ca. 1929 --- Stan and Ollie balance on a beam at a high rise construction site. --- Image by © John Springer Collection/CORBIS
13 Sep 1930, Manhattan, New York, New York, USA --- 9/13/1930-New York City: Carl Russell waves to his co-workers on the structural work of the 88th floor of the new Empire State Building. When complete the highest man-made structure in the world will rise 1,222 feet above the intersection of Fifth Avenue and Thirty-fourth Street. The cameraman risked his life climbing a derrick to snap this unusual photograph. Notice the "Toy" cars and the ant-sized pedestrians walking about Herald Square almost a quarter of a mile below. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
ca. 1926, USA --- Two construction workers on scaffolding --- Image by © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS
ca. 1920s, Manhattan, New York, USA --- Photographer Atop Skyscraper --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
13 Aug 1914 --- Worker perched on upright waiting for a cross beam. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
A construction worker climbs the steeple of the Bank of China Tower during completion of the building in 1990. Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong.
Original caption: It may be painful for the ant-like spectators in the street below, but it's all in a day's work for these smiling window washers as they go about their precarious work cleaning up the Empire State Building, world's tallest structure, at dizzy heights of hundreds of feet above the street. The startling "shot" was made by the photographer looking down upon the window washers on the 34th street side of the world-famed building. Note the tiny insects that are motor cars and pedestrians. January 26, 1932 New York, New York, USA
Original caption: 3/17/1964-New York, NY- Window washer Richard Green (yep, Green) has the best seat in the house for the trooping of the green up New York's Fifth Avenue in the annual St. Patrick's Day parade. Behind him, across the avenue, is St. Patrick's Cathedral. March 7, 1964 New York, New York, USA
Original caption: Don't look now - but there's someone at the window 1,000-feet up. Men cleaning skyscraper windows in Manhattan, New York in 1964. It is the first time which is probably the worst. The giddiness, the prickling nervousness, the feeling of near panic. But with the experience you can usually become almost blase about it. The trick, of course, is just to concentrate on whatever you are doing and forget about the road 1,000 feet below. Forget, in fact, that this is the Empire State Building, and act as if it was just another window in an ordinary building anywhere in New York. After a while you won't notice it any more. You'll be sitting at your desk typing, or answering the telephone, and you won't even bother to look up when the window-cleaners come around. July 6, 1964 New York, New York, USA
Sky-High Window Cleaner 1961 New York, New York, USA
Near the top of the North Tower of the Golden Gate Bridge. Marin County, California, USA
Window washers stand on a platform as they are lowered from the top of a skyscraper high above Shenzhen, China. ca. April 1996 Shenzhen, China
