The reddit thread has some interesting speculation and links, along with the usual garbage. Summarizing a few of the better parts... The photographer in that f

The reddit thread has some interesting speculation and links, along with the usual garbage. Summarizing a few of the better parts... The photographer in that first picture may not be Ebbets. This is apparently him: https://www.ebbetsphoto-graphics.com/page/home/#/page/home/ https://www.ebbetsphoto-graphics.com/page/home/#/page/home/ https://www.ebbetsphoto-graphics.com/page/about-the-artist/#/page/about-the-artist/ https://www.ebbetsphoto-graphics.com/page/about-the-artist/#... Credit to /u/notbob1959 for some detective work: https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/nn4q4j/heres_a_photo_of_the_photographer_charles_c/gzsrfye/ https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/nn4q4j/h... WaPo has a good article, and Wikipedia has some more info: https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2019/09/01/one-most-iconic-photos-american-workers-is-not-what-it-seems/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2019/09/01/one-most-i... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunch_atop_a_Skyscraper https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunch_atop_a_Skyscraper More high steel photos here: https://historydaily.org/charles-ebbets-lunchtime-atop-a-skyscraper https://historydaily.org/charles-ebbets-lunchtime-atop-a-sky... https://www.metalocus.es/en/news/lunch-atop-a-skyscraper-story-behind-1932-photo https://www.metalocus.es/en/news/lunch-atop-a-skyscraper-sto... Some of these photos use the same camera trick that Harold Lloyd used in Safety Last!. The camera angle makes it look like it would be a direct fall to street level, when in fact there is a solid floor below, just out of the camera's view: http://www.westerncostumeresearch.com/western-costume-research-blog/filming-safety-last-1923/ http://www.westerncostumeresearch.com/western-costume-resear... https://silentlocations.com/2012/02/29/how-harold-lloyd-filmed-safety-last/ https://silentlocations.com/2012/02/29/how-harold-lloyd-film... That's not to say any of this wasn't dangerous! Just perhaps not quite as dangerous as they look.