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Empire State Building: Made by Hand

Wrenching Work

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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