The Skyscrapers of new York
from the marvellously named American Mutascope and Biograph Company, filmed in 1906.
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Added: Mar-24-2012 Occurred On: Mar-24-2012
By: thecleaner001
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Tags: New York, skyscrapers, 1906, work on the girders, thecleaner001,
Location: United States (load item map)
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By: thecleaner001
In: Other
Tags: New York, skyscrapers, 1906, work on the girders, thecleaner001,
Location: United States (load item map)
Marked as: approved
Views: 1450 | Comments: 16 | Votes: 6 | Favorites: 4 | Shared: 0 | Updates: 0 | Times used in channels: 1
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...lol @3:30...any OHS officer would be throwing up in their mouth a little watching that!...great find as always cleaner...
Posted Mar-24-2012 BySpIderZ (2610.02) 
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Holy shit, over 100 years old footage. Nice!
Posted Mar-24-2012 ByReincarnator (399.50) 
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@T0M65
Indeed, balls that clank. +1
Posted Mar-24-2012 ByValleyBlacksmith (682.80) 
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A large number of those guys were Seneca Indians from the reservations in upstate New York because of their natural inclination for no fear of heights. That made them great ironworkers, a tradition that continues to this day.
Amazing to see the absolute absence of any safety equipment. No harnesses, no nets, no hardhats, nothing.
Seeing a coal forge with its hand operated blower to supply an air blast to the fire being used to heat the rivets to almost white hot is pretty cool but this clip does More..
Posted Mar-24-2012 ByValleyBlacksmith (682.80) 
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@ValleyBlacksmith excellent information, thanks VB.
Posted Mar-25-2012 Bythecleaner001 (11791.38) 
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This source says Mohawks, but both they and Seneca were Iroquois, so it all gets a bit complex....
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/659/why-do-so-many-native-americans-work-on-skyscrapers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iroquois
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seneca_people
Posted Mar-25-2012 Byommadawn (3211.94) ommadawn View Channel Send Message
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Cool, I'll have to look up those links. Mohawks are a central NY group. Around my area are mostly Senecas and some Tuscaroras up by Niagara Falls. On the Tonawanda reservation (was just out there yesterday as a matter of fact), and the Allegany and Cattaraugus reservations are mostly Senecas. I went to school with many of them growing up in Akron right by the Tonawanda rez and never saw many of their dads much because they would be gone for up to two years at a time working on high ri More..
Posted Mar-25-2012 ByValleyBlacksmith (682.80) 
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I presume all these people are dead by now.
Posted Mar-24-2012 Bybraziliandude (36.40) 
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They are pretty casual about being that far off of the ground.
Posted Mar-24-2012 ByCaptain Canuck (1391.72) 
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@Captain Canuck I've got a vid I've posted before of modern Iron Erectors, I haven't seen it here for a couple of years ....so, (keep tuned ;-)
Posted Mar-24-2012 Bythecleaner001 (11791.38) 
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In the days before hard hats. Nice stuff :0)
Posted Mar-24-2012 Byossiemac (44.44) 
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Amazing. I would think with today's PC's and given this is entirely grayscale we should be able to clean up old vids like this. I was noticing in the shots you'd get some frames showing a certain object better than in others. Adobe can already fix that in photographs, ought to be able to fix the entire film so it has consistent contrast and no shakiness.
Posted Mar-24-2012 Byteccec (75.10) teccec View Channel Send Message
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men didn't go about bare headed
Posted Mar-25-2012 ByRational_Surge (432.70) Rational_Surge View Channel Send Message
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Those crazy guys hanging onto that crane-line with one hand! LOL My grandfather on my dad's side was an iron-man. Yep he was a hard drinking crazy man too!
Posted Mar-25-2012 Bydownhill2400 (1314.38) downhill2400 View Channel Send Message
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