Unisphere Construction collection-night they placed it inside a

they placed it inside a mailbox attached to a heavy tripod and wrapped it in foil

shall not perish from the earth

The photo was taken by Sam Falk (1901-1991)

in an article to mark the Flatiron Building's centennial

The Times caption for this photo reported

Unisphere Construction collection-night they placed it inside aA steel worker rides the cable of a crane at the construction site of the Unisphere in preparation of the 1964 New York World's Fair, in Flushing Meadows, Queens. Times photographer Patrick Burns took this photo of the fourteen story stainless steel globe as it was being assembled on August 15, 1963. Robert Moses described as "New York's master builder" years later in his obit in The Times said in a news conference that the 120 foot steel sphere