<P> The photograph depicts eleven men eating lunch, seated on a girder with their feet dangling 840 feet (260 meters) above the New York City streets . The photograph was taken on September 20, 1932, on the 69th floor of the RCA Building during the last months of construction . According to archivists, the photograph was in fact prearranged . Although the photograph shows real ironworkers, it is believed that the moment was staged by Rockefeller Center to promote its new skyscraper . Other photographs taken on the same day show some of the workers throwing a football and pretending to sleep on the girder . The photo appeared in the Sunday photo supplement of the New York Herald Tribune on October 2 . </P> <P> The glass negative is now owned by Branded Entertainment Network, who acquired it from the Acme Newspictures archive in 1995 . The negative was broken into five pieces in 1996 . </P> <P> Formerly attributed to "unknown", it has been credited to Charles C. Ebbets since 2003 and erroneously to Lewis Hine . The Corbis corporation officially returned its status to unknown although sources continue to credit Ebbets . </P> <P> There have been numerous claims regarding the identities of the men in the image . The movie Men at Lunch traces some of the men to possible Irish origin, but the director plans to conduct further interviews to follow up other claims from Swedish relatives . From the left, number three is Joseph Eckner, number four is Michael Breheny, number five is Albin Svensson and number six with the cigarette is John (Jack) Patrick Madden . The first man from the right is Slovak worker Gustáv (Gusti) Popovič from the village of Vyšný Slavkov in the Levoča District . Gusti was originally a lumberjack and carpenter . In 1932 he sent his wife Mariška a postcard with this photograph on which he wrote, "Don _́ t you worry, my dear Mariska, as you can see I'm still with bottle . Your Gusti ." He came back to Vyšný Slavkov at the beginning of World War II and became a farmer . By the end of World War II, Gusti was killed by a grenade in his village . His and Mariška's joint grave is in the Vyšný Slavkov cemetery . The third from the right is Joe Curtis . The man sitting fourth from the right is allegedly Irishman Francis Michael Rafferty with his lifelong best friend and fellow Irishman, Stretch Donahue, sitting to his right . </P>

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