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Lewis Wickes Hine
Riveting on a dome a quarter mile up, circa 1930
In 1930 photographer and sociologist Lewis Hine was employed to document the construction of New York City's Empire State Building. Hine focused his lens on the physical accomplishment and human daring required to erect the Empire State, the world's tallest building at 1,250 feet when completed in 1931.
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