print email comment close Lewis Wickes Hine: The Construction of the Empire State Building, 1930-1931 URL: http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/art/photo/hinex/empire/ Description: Presents photos by Lewis Wickes Hine, who "was commissioned to photograph the construction of the [Empire State] building in 1930. Taking many of the risks the construction workers endured, Hine photographed the workers in precarious positions while they secured the iron and steel framework of the structure. In order to obtain the best vantage points, Hine was swung out in a ... basket 1,000 feet above Fifth Avenue." From the New York Public Library. Publisher: New York Public Library Extra Keywords skyscrapers, high steel Library of Congress Subject Headings: Construction workers -- Photographs Empire State Building (New York, N.Y.) Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940 People Photographers -- United States LII Database Information: Record 2828 created by Dennis Maness on 03/19/2004 Last modification on 03/24/2004 Published: 03/19/2004   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/2828