
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 | ArchitectureThe Guardian·
United Kingdom· 2025-12-01







