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Photographer Charles Ebbets taking pictures atop an unfinished skyscraper, New York, USA, ~1932

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Photographer Charles Ebbets taking pictures atop an unfinished skyscraper, New York, USA, ~1932

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He’s not on the unfinished Empire State Building because the finished building is behind him.

Looks like something in midtown. Maybe Rockefeller Building?
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  I have no eye for landmarks, fixed
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  Chrysler building?

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