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Filmed during the construction of a New York skyscraper in 1906, this footage shows a worker heating rivets in a forge, riveters assembling girders, and men astride the building’s framework maneuvering a girder and setting it in place. At the end, the crew descends via a crane line.
Archival film and video materials from the collections of the Library of Congress.