What is Charles Ebbets?
[[File:Lunch atop a Skyscraper.jpg|thumb|right|''Lunch atop a Skyscraper'' 1932.]] '''Charles Clyde Ebbets''' was an American [[photographer]] who is credited with having taken the iconic photograph ''[[Lunch atop a Skyscraper]]''.<ref>{{Harvard citation|Phillips|p=117}}</ref> He was born on August 18, 1905 in [[Alabama]]. He got his first camera, a [[Kodak]] Brownie when he was 8 years old.{{Reference necessary}} The family was struggling so he left school in 10th grade to work for the newspaper in the city.<ref>{{Harvard citation|Steele|p=59}}</ref> It was then he decided to work toward the idea of making a living from taking pictures. ==References== <references/> === Sources === * {{Cite book|title=Great Displays for Your Library Step by Step|last=Phillips|first=Susan P.|date=2015-03-21|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-1-4766-0182-3|language=en}} * {{Cite book|title=Ebbets: The History and Genealogy of a New York Family|last=Steele|first=Edward Eugene|date=2005|publisher=E.E. Steele|isbn=978-0-9715129-7-9|language=en}} {{US-bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Ebbets, Charles}} [[Category:1905 births]] [[Category:Year of death missing]] [[Category:American photographers]] [[Category:People from Gadsden, Alabama]]