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Members of a family in western Sweden have claimed their migrant worker father is one of the men seated on a steel beam and having lunch high above the skyscrapers in the iconic picture from 1930s New York City.
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Also, American Bridge Company, who keeps records from their works since it was founded in 1900, and has built most of NY skyscrapers has a museum at their HQ in Coraopolis, with all the records of their jobs. I truly cannot remember if this was one of their construction jobs or not, (although we used to keep it at one of our construction sites at the HSE Department at ABC Portugal) but they could provide that information, and, if it was an ABC job, it is very well possible that you can find out quite a lot about the job itself and the employees. Their records are impecable!
Here is the link to their Wikipedia page, where all contacts can be found: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:American_bridge_logo.png