Recommended Grade: 4-9

Intro
By witnessing the architecture, engineering, and construction of Empire State Building with an original illustration, photographs, the author describes individual steelworkers who dreamed of and built the tallest building in the world for the time, and recreates the heady world of them out on the girders, high above the city streets in a non-fiction, narrative form.

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written by Elizabeth Mann, illustrated by Alan Witschonke, photographed by Lewis Hine
ISBN: 9781931414081