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Columns, beams, concrete floor. Columns, beams, concrete floor. The steps were repeated story after story. The steelworkers set the pace for the rest of the construction. Everything depended on them, and they outdid themselves. The framework rose at the record-breaking rate of four and a half stories a week. Steelworkers were the superheroes on the job. They performed amazing acts of skill and daring on a stage that could be seen for miles in every direction. Photographer Lewis Hine followed the steelworkers to the highest reaches of the framework to capture them on the job. He took some of his shots from the end of a crane cable that suspended him in the air nearly a quarter of a mile above the ground. | |||