Charles Ebbets

The Profile

American photographer credited with the 1932 photograph "Lunch atop a skyscraper" portraying construction workers eating lunch on a beam at Rockefeller Center.

Charles Clyde Ebbets (1905–1978) is credited with the 1932 photograph "Lunch atop a Skyscraper," an iconic image made during construction of Rockefeller Center in New York City.

One review (enbar77) offers a playful imagined dialogue among the workers in Charles Ebbets' 1932 photograph 'Lunch atop a skyscraper'. The review emphasizes daily life on a 1930s construction site—cigarettes, coffee, jokes—and treats the image as an intimate slice of New York history. Rating: 5/5.