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Empire State Building: Made by Hand
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Wrenching Work
A worker uses a wrench on the edge of a beam high above the city, with the Chrysler Building in the background. It took 10 million bricks and 200,000 cubic feet of Indiana limestone to build the ESB.
Photo: Lewis W. Hine/Getty Images
Jan 01, 1931
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