January 22, 2015 – Construction workers and daredevils of the early 1900s were “cowboys of the skies,” often flirting with death and injury during the period’s skyscraper boom.
While carrying out their normal duties, some workers slipped and fell to their deaths, were blown off scaffolding by gusts of wind, or were crushed by massive steel girders being put in place. Other workers and daredevil performers were willing to risk their lives just for a shocking photograph, which appeared in magazines of the time.
Link: DailyMail
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