Crossbeam Daredevils hat and the all-Black 369th Infantry

and the all-Black 369th Infantry Regiment

with a personality and appetite as large as his home runs

boutique hotel advertisements and glossy shelter and travel magazines tend to traffic in

A Times reporter ventured to interrogate him about his "undermined physical vitality" in 1921

the Lower East Side has been transformed

Crossbeam Daredevils hat and the all-Black 369th InfantryConstruction workers, with obvious nerves of steel, play harmonicas during a lunch break on a crossbeam on the 22nd story of the Murray Hill Building in New York City. The building would rise to 27 stories at Madison Avenue and the northeast corner of 40th Street. This 1925 photo is among the earliest images of construction workers defying gravity and having fun with intrepid photographers hundreds of feet above the ground. Over the years, photos