New York, NY-ORIGINAL CAPTION READS: Aerial photo of the Empire State Building under construction. Photograph ca. 1930.
Construction workers celebrate the completion of the iron work on the Empire State Building, Manhattan, circa 1930. The building was constructed...
Steel worker hangs stories above the streets of Manhattan while holding onto the end of a crane hook at the construction site of the Empire State...
View of the hole rammed into the 78th and 79th stories of the Empire State Building by a U.S. Army Bomber flying in the fog. Part of the wreckage...
New York City: Carl Russell waves to his co-workers on the structural work of the 88th floor of the new Empire State Building. When complete the...
Dirigible establishing contact with Empire State Building tower. While designed for this purpose, it did not prove practical.
Photograph by Lewis Wickes Hine , showing members of a derrick gang fixing a beam during the construction of the Empire State Building, with the...
Photograph by Lewis Wickes Hine , showing a worker during construction of the Empire State Building, New York City, 1931.
The Empire State Building is lit in the colors of the flag of Ukraine in New York City on February 25, 2022 as seen from Jersey City, New Jersey.
Ex-Governor Alfred E. Smith, Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt, and others at the top of the Empire State Building, tallest in the world, gazing out...
Noon hour on the top of the mooring mast and tower of the gigantic Empire State Building, rising on the site of the old Waldorf. Men toasting their...
Construction worker on the Empire State Building, in the background: the Crysler Building. Photography. 1931. [Arbeiter auf dem Empire State Building...
The Empire State Building is viewed from the observation deck at Rockefeller Center on August 24, 2010 in New York City. A proposed tower on 34th...
Unchecked tongues of flame streak out of 78th floor windows of the Empire State Building shortly after a B-25 Bomber crashed into the east wall of...
'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....
'Rivetting the last bolts on The Morning Mast of the Empire State building', c1931. Rivetting the last bolts on The Morning Mast of the Empire State...
Empire State Building under construction, with view of Chrysler Building in background, New York, New York, 1930.
Police and firemen examine a burned out office on the 79th floor of the Empire State Building, New York, after a B-25 Mitchell bomber crashed into...
Striking view of the giant Empire State Building with its upper stories enveloped in smoke and flame after it was rammed by a US Army B-25 bomber....
New York: Flirting with danger is just routine work for the steel workers arranging the steel frame for the Empire State Building, which will be the...
British Royalty, Royal Tour of the United States, pic: October 1957, New York, USA, HM, Queen Elizabeth with the Duke of Edinburgh is shown the view...
Part of a US B-25 bomber which crashed into the Empire State Building in New York City. The main part of the wreckage fell into the street, while...
View of the Manhattan skyline with the Empire State Building and Chrysler Building , New York City, 1940s.
Salmon Tower, 500 Fifth Avenue, construction worker silhouetted, with Empire State Building superimposed, New York, New York, 1929.
Putting up New York's "tallest" calls for both brawn and nerve. This photo shows a worker fastening steel cable to hold a derrick in place prior to...
Lost in a fog hanging low over New York Building, a bomber crashed into the Empire State Building at approximately 10 A.M.. On July 28th. An...
New York: The Empire State Building which will rise 1,284 feet from the ground supporting a mooring mast from dirigibles at its top, is rapidly...
Workers sit on metal beams on the 83rd floor of the Empire State Building during its construction, New York City. Photograph by Dwight Franklin.
Group of people on the outdoor viewing platform of the Empire State building looking out over New York circa 1940.
The giant ape fights off planes atop the Empire State Building in New York City at the end of the film 'King Kong', 1933.
Exposed lift shafts on a damaged floor of the Empire State Building, after a B-25 Mitchell bomber crashed into the north side of the skyscraper, New...
Workman fixing tarpaulins over broken windows at the Empire State Building, New York, after a B-25 Mitchell bomber crashed into the north side of the...
Betty Lou Oliver, who fell eighty floors when a plane crashed into the Empire State Building last August, left Bellevue hospital for her home today....
Betty Lou Oliver, 20-year-old elevator operator who fell nearly 80 floors when part of an Army bomber engine crashed down on her elevator in the...
New York, NY- The Empire State Building, the loftiest structure in the world, was formally opened in a ceremony in which President Hoover, Alfred E....
Bomber plane crashed here between the Empire State Building's 78th and 79th floors. Pieces of the plane, a jagged hole, ripped steel girders and...
Lithographic color postcard shows a view of the Empire State Building with a blimp teathered to the tower and is printed in New York City around 1930.
High-angle view of midtown Manhattan, looking north, showing the Empire State Building and the Chrysler building , New York City.
Foot tall inflatable of King Kong, by artist Robert Vicino, on the Empire State Building, marking the 50th anniversary of the original film, in New...
View on the Empire State Building and the nocturnal illuminated Lower Manhattan from the R.C.A. Building, which was being constructed at that time....
Steel worker balances on a girder during the construction of the Empire State Building in New York City. The Chrysler Building can be seen in the...