Lewis Wickes Hine's Photos of Empire State Building Workers.

If you've got the urge to complain about your job,consider this: safety equipments of the builders of Empire State building consisted of ... gloves and a stylish hat!

The New York Public Library has a cool collection of Lewis Wickes Hine's series of photographs called The Construction of the Empire State Building, 1930-1931. http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/art/photo/hinex/empire/empire.html

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Thanks p3on - that's twice today! I've updated the main post for the RSS readers.

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Gloves and a hat ? hmm, That's more than one gets when one get's married.

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link:
http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/art/photo/hinex/empire/empire.html

i'm getting good at this :)

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