2-623-053 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'The final stages of the Mast; the street is some quarter mile below', c1931. 'The final stages of the Mast; the street is some quarter mile below. Photographs by Lewis Hine, from his series of skyscraper men at work, taken on this tallest of the world's buildings'. The Empire State Building was designed by William F. Lamb from the architectural firm Shreve, Lamb and Harmon. Work began on the site on January 22nd, 1930 and the building was officially opened on May 1st, 1931. From The Studio Volume 103. [London Offices of the Studio, London, 1932]