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    32 Unbelievable Pictures That Are Both Incredibly Amazing And Make Me Feel Violently Sick To My Stomach

    By Dave Stopera,

    26 days ago

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    What follows are a series of images from the early 20th century of construction workers building New York City, San Francisco, and a couple other places.

    My challenge to you is this: Can you make it through all these pictures without feeling sick to YOUR stomach? Let's see...

    1. "An American construction worker walking blindfolded on a construction girder twenty stories high in New York City."

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    2. "A workman takes a siesta on a girder during the building of Radio City."

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    3. "A construction worker is hauled up to his place of work on a 30-storey skyscraper on New York's waterfront."

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    4. "A New York construction worker walks along a girder high above the city streets."

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    5. "Two workers high above lower Manhattan, during the construction of a skyscraper."

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    6. "Construction worker on the Empire State Building, New York City."

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    7. "Construction workers walking on the scaffolding of the RCA building."

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    8. "A group of steel workers standing on scaffolding 70 stories high looking down over New York City from the RCA building."

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    9. "Two New York construction workers stop for lunch high above the city."

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    10. "Two construction workers on the Pan American Building standing on girders 59 stories above the New York streets."

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    11. "A steelworker dangling in a graceful sangfroid during the construction of the Empire State Building."

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    / Alamy Stock Photo

    12. "A construction worker stands on crane pulley counterweight during the construction of the Empire State Building."

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    Hulton Archive / Getty Images

    13. "Photographer with camera suspended from hook of a crane high in the air."

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    14. "A photograph by Lewis Wickes Hine, showing a worker during construction of the Empire State Building, New York City, 1931."

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    15. "A man standing on the first cables during the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge."

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    16. "Members of a derrick gang fixing a beam during the construction of the Empire State Building, with the streets of New York far below them."

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    17. "Looking down at two steel workers as they maneuver girders into position during the construction of a skyscraper."

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    18. "Carl Russell waves to his co-workers on the structural work of the 88th floor of the new Empire State Building. Notice the "Toy" cars and the ant-sized pedestrians walking about Herald Square almost a quarter of a mile below."

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    Bettmann / Bettmann Archive

    19. "High-angle view of a worker sitting on a steel girder high atop the Chrysler Building, on the 54th floor, during its construction, New York City."

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    20. "The men stand in the steel cables and chains of a crane, 1912."

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    21. "A steel worker balances on a girder during the construction of the Empire State Building in New York City."

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    22. "Photo shows the iron workers perched on a girder twenty stories in the air and enjoying their lunch, unconcerned about the twenty story drop below."

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    23. "Members of a derrick gang fixing a beam during the construction of the Empire State Building, with the streets of New York far below them."

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    Science & Society Picture Librar / SSPL via Getty Images

    24. "A workman, hired on for the repainting of the massive Eiffel Tower, is shown seated high up on a section of the tower, with a bucket of paint tied to his belt."

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    Bettmann / Bettmann Archive

    25. "Workers on New York skyscraper."

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    26. "New York construction workers, circa 1950."

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    27. "Construction worker sits on a scaffold and looks over New York."

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    28. "A team of riveters secures a huge girder into place during construction of the Paramount Building."

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    29. "Circa 1930: Builders working on the construction of a skyscraper in New York."

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    30. "A workman painting the Eiffel Tower, Paris, October 1969."

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    31. "Men 500 ft up Blackpool Tower where repairs are being carried out."

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    32. "A photographer balances eighteen stories above Fifth Avenue while he uses a stereoscopic camera to take pictures of the city."

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    Lori Millenbruch Mullen
    9d ago
    Wow! Amazing Pictures! Even The Photographers Had Major Balls? I'm So Scared Of Heights - This Did Make Me Woozy. Makes Me Wonder How These Men Could Do That Job Every Day.
    ZigZig 2003
    13d ago
    The real Daredevils 🦾🦾🦾
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