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Image Not Available for Leon Rice, a Mohawk works on the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge construction. Mohawks are the heroes of the high steel construction industry because of their skill, agility and courage.
Leon Rice, a Mohawk works on the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge construction. Mohawks are the heroes of the high steel construction industry because of their skill, agility and courage.
Image Not Available for Leon Rice, a Mohawk works on the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge construction. Mohawks are the heroes of the high steel construction industry because of their skill, agility and courage.

Leon Rice, a Mohawk works on the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge construction. Mohawks are the heroes of the high steel construction industry because of their skill, agility and courage.

Creator United States Information Service (USIS)
DimensionsSheet: 25.5 × 20.5 cm (10 1/16 × 8 1/16 in.)
Image: 24 × 19.3 cm (9 7/16 × 7 5/8 in.)
Credit LineAnonymous Gift, 2005
Category
    Object number2005/4819
    LocationNot currently on display

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    Image Not Available for Leon Rice, a Mohawk and a foreman on the Verazano-Narrows bridge, New York harbor, makes a safety inspection of the site with officials
    Leon Rice, a Mohawk and a foreman on the Verazano-Narrows bridge, New York harbor, makes a safety inspection of the site with officials
    United States Information Service (USIS)
    October 1 1967
    Photograph
    Image Not Available for Leon Rice, 40 year old Mohawk construction worker.
    Leon Rice, 40 year old Mohawk construction worker.
    United States Information Service (USIS)
    October 1 1957
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    36 meter-high nuclear reactor container being constructed for the Niagara Mohawk Power Corportation, Lake Ontario near Oswego, New York
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    1950s
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    Main steel cables run across the span of a major suspension bridge under construction
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    A black construction worker from the Valley area works on the TVA dam, 1930's
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    Works superintendants consult plans on a major construction project
    United States Information Service (USIS)
    June 1 1958
    Photograph
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    Construction workers use manual force to swing a heavy steel form into place on project at Massena, New York. Howard Ross facing camera.
    United States Information Service (USIS)
    October 15 1961
    Photograph
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    Construction workers silhouetted against steel roof cables of Coliseum building at the Seattle World's Fair of 1962.
    United States Information Service (USIS)
    September 15 1962
    Photograph
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    Construction workers stand 50 feet above ground dwarfed by walls of steel cables.
    United States Information Service (USIS)
    November 15 1968
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    Construction workers lay concrete and steel sheets on highway building project.
    United States Information Service (USIS)
    December 1 1961
    Photograph
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    Construction workers balanced 40M high girder communications grid being built for allied forces use in South Vietnam.
    United States Information Service (USIS)
    November 15 1969
    Photograph
    Image Not Available for Construction workers bolt sections on a bridge, some distance below is a stretch of water
    Construction workers bolt sections on a bridge, some distance below is a stretch of water
    United States Information Service (USIS)
    September 1 1955
    Photograph
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