Victor Gosselin

Victor Gosselin

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Victor Gosselin, known as 'Frenchy', was a skilled ironworker who specialized as a 'connector' in the construction of the Empire State Building, famously captured in a photograph by Lewis Hine, which immortalized him as a daring figure of the construction era.

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Gosselin's specialist skill was as a 'connector', catching a suspended beam and moving it into place.

‘It would take 11 seconds to hit the ground’: the roughneck daredevils who built the Empire State Building | Architecture
The Guardian·United KingdomUnited Kingdom· 2025-12-01
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