Men at Work: Lewis Hine and the Men Who Built the Empire State Building tells the previously unknown stories of the men who appear in Lewis W. Hine’s iconic photographs of Empire State Building construction workers. For ninety years, these images have illustrated the rise of American power and the nation’s determination in the midst of the Great Depression. Now, for the first time, we learn the identities and real-life stories of the men in Hine’s dramatic portraits.