History, Natural History & the Arts
“Lunch on a Beam,” also known as “Lunch Atop a Skyscraper,” shows iron-workers eating lunch on a steel beam during the construction of Rockefeller Center’s RCA Building in 1932.
It’s a photo so famous you can likely picture it in your mind: seated in a row, eleven men chat and break bread 850 feet above the ground, the dense cityscape behind them. [Read more…] about Lunch On A Beam: The Making of an American Photograph
Just after sunset on a toasty evening in May 1903, a two-year-old trotting horse named Princewell, startled by “a noisy automobile,” bolted for freedom in the Bronx.
Trainer Frank Ferris was leading the young colt across the tracks of the Putnam Division of the New York Central Railroad, turning onto the Boston Post Road at King’s Bridge, when the motorcar “rushed past,” according to a New York Times report. [Read more…] about Memories of Old Put: NY Central Railroad’s Putnam Division
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