safety measures and, (see also safety)
Time Warner Center
World Trade Center
acrophobia. See also falling
Adamic, Louis
ADF Group Inc.
Adirondack Northway
African-Americans
Akwesasnes Indians
alcohol. See drinking
Ali, Dr. Mir M.
Ambassador Bridge
American Board of Indian Commissioners
American Bridge Company
American method
American Psychological Association
American Tract Society Building
Ammann, Othmar
anchorages
Apologies to the Iroquois
appraisers
Arbitrator (bulldog)
Arthur Andersen building
Ashtabula railroad bridge collapse
Auden, W. H.
autonomy
Backett, George
balance
Bank of Manhattan building
Barker, Chett
baseball
Basic Oxygen Furnace (BOF)
bays
beams
Bear Stearns building
beaters
Beatty, Billy
Beauvais, Alex
Beauvais, Walter
Beckett, James
Bedell, Charles
bends
Bennet, James
Bernie’s Grocery
Bessemer, Henry
Bessemer Converter
Bethlehem Steel
Big Ben
Birger, William
Birkmire, William
Black Bear tavern
Black Bridge
black ironworkers
Bloody Friday
Bloomberg Media building
Board of Building Trades
bolting-up gang
book, union
boomers
bridgemen as
columns as
ironworkers as
booming out, Mohawks and
booms
Bossom, Alfred
Bovis Lend-Lease
Bowers, George, Jr.
Bowers, Jim
Boyd, William
Brady, Dick
Brandt, Louis
Brennan, Peter
Brice, J. B. See McNamara, James
bridgemen
early ironworkers as, (see also ironworkers)
on George Washington Bridge
Mohawks as
unions (see unions)
on Verrazano-Narrows Bridge
work of
Bridgemen’s Magazine, The
bridges. See also bridgemen; ironworkers
building early
collapse of Quebec Bridge
early steel
first steel
George Washington Bridge
railroad, as inspiration for steel-frame skyscrapers, (see also skyscrapers)
Verrazano-Narrows Bridge
Brooklyn. See also New York City
Mohawks in
Newfoundlanders in
Brooklyn Bridge
Brown, Keith
Buchanan, Frank
bucker-up
Buffington, L. S.
Building Age, The
Building and Construction Trades Council of New York
buildings. See skyscrapers
Building Trade Employers’ Association
bullstick man
Bunny Eyes. See McComber, Keith “Bunny Eyes”
Burke, Bobby
Burnham, Daniel H.
Burns, William
Bush, George W.
Butler, Michael
Cabot, John
Cadman, Reverend S. Parkes
caisson diggers
Canadian Pacific Railroad
Canadian Pacific Railroad bridge
cantilever bridges
Cantor Seinuk Group
Capelin weather
capital vs. labor
carbon
Carnegie, Andrew
carriage, suspension bridge
cast iron
catchers
Cathedral of Commerce
Catholicism
catwalks, suspension bridge
Caughnawaga. See Kahnawake (Mohawk Indian reservation)
Center of Everything. See Time Warner Center
Champlain Bridge
Charles, David “Chappie,”
Chase Manhattan Building
Chaucer
Chicago
development of skyscrapers in
early fatalities in
first skyscrapers in
New York City vs., as skyscraper
Chicago (cont.)
capital, 49–50 (see also New York City)
unions in
chokers
Chrysler, Walter
Chrysler Building
civil rights
clear (center) span
climbing columns
cloud sketchers
cod fishing
Cohen, Dr. Bernard
Cole, Jim
Coliseum
Coliseum Bar and Grill
collapses, bridge
collective bargaining
Collins, Glenn
Collins, John
columns
columns, climbing
communications industry
competition
compression
computers
Conception Bay, See also Newfoundland
concrete, steel vs., See also steel
Conde B. McCullough Memorial Bridge
Condé Nast Building
Conklin, Brett
connectors
K. Brown and M. Davis as
climbing columns
danger and
job of, in raising gangs
rain and
setters as
Time Warner building
tying off and
walking steel
consumption (tuberculosis)
Conway, Lorraine
cooning
Cooper, Slim
Cooper, Theodore
Coppola, Dr. S. Thomas
Corbett, Harvey Wilson
Corbett, Ray
corruption, union. See dynamite conspiracy; Parks, Sam
Cory, Reverend David
Costello, Jack and Kitty
Costello, Ray
Costello, Tim
Covan, George
cranes
as airborne stretchers
crawler
helicopter skycranes
kangaroo
tower
World Trade Center disaster and
crawler cranes
crucible steel. See also steel
Cuba
Cullen, John
cultural atavism, Mohawk
curtain wall technology
Curtis, Joe
Curtis-Clark, Thomas
Customs House
Cuyler Presbyterian Church
D’Aillebouts, Joseph
danger. See accidents; falling; fatalities
Darrow, Clarence
Davis, Marvin
Davis-Bacon Act of 1931
Deans, John
deaths. See fatalities
deckers
decking gang
deflection, skyscraper
Delaware River Bridge
delegates, walking. See also Parks, Sam
DeMille film company
Depression
derrick floor
derricks
detail gangs
Devery, William K.“Big Chief,”
Diablo, Paul
Diabo, Johnny
DiPietro,Ron
diversity
Dominion Bridge Company
Donohue, Danny
Doyle, Danny
Doyle, George
Doyle, Jack
Doyle, Leo
Doyle�
��s
Drew, Walter
drinking
Dynamite (book)
dynamite conspiracy
Eads, James Buchanan
Eads Bridge
Eckner, Joseph
economics
education
Eick, Joseph
Eidlitz, Charles
Eiffel Tower
elevators
bridge
construction
safety
Emerson, Jimmy
Emerson, Joe
Emerson, Louis Lee
Emerson, Mike
Emerson, Tommy
Empire State Building
engineers, structural. See also Cooper, Theodore
English, Newfoundlander
Ernst & Young building
exposure therapy
extortion. See also Parks, Sam
falling. See also accidents; fatalities
bridgemen and dangers of
K. Brown’s fall
B. Conklin’s fall
connectors and
fear of
J. Gaffney’s fall
as going into the hole
ironworkers and dangers of
at Random House building
at World Trade Center
falsework
Farrington, E. F.
fatalities. See also accidents
Arthur Andersen building
Brooklyn Bridge
compensation and
Delaware River Bridge
early ironworker
Empire State Building
falls and, (see also falling)
George Washington Bridge
ironworker jobs and
Mohawk
Newfoundlander
Quebec Bridge
reduction of ironworker, (see also safety)
Verrazano-Narrows Bridge
World Trade Center
fearlessness, Mohawk
field day competitions
fighting. See violence
Firth of Forth bridge
Fish. See Newfoundlanders
fixers
flanges
Flatiron Building
float
Floaters
floors, skyscraper
fog
Fortune, Bill
framed tubes
Frick, Henry Clay
Frielich, Morris
Fuller Building. See Flatiron Building
Gaffney, Joe
gangs. See also raising gangs
General Specifications for Iron Railroad Bridges and Viaducts
George A. Fuller Company
George Washington Bridge
Gilbert, Bradford
Gilbert, Cass
Glasgow (Missouri) bridge
going into the hole. See also falling
Golden Gate Bridge
Gompers, Samuel
Gosselin, Victor “Frenchy,”
Grace, Patrick
graft, union. See also Parks, Sam
Grand Central Building
Grant, Luke
Grottle, Mike
Haley, D. B.
Hall, Ingwall
Handsome Lake
Hansen, Harmon
happiness
hard-hat riots
hard hats
harpies
Harriman, Job
Hartley, Hal
Hartley, Pat
heat
heaters
Hebler, Henry
Hecla Iron Works
heights. See also falling
ironworkers and
Mohawks and
helicopter cranes
Hell’s Gate Bridge
heroes, ironworkers as
Hine, Lewis Wickes
Hoare, E. A.
Hockin, Harry
hole
Homeguard
Home Insurance Building
hooker-ons
Hoover, J. Edgar
Horn, Ky
Hot Wrench connectors
housesmiths. See also ironworkers
Housesmiths’ and Bridgemen’s Society. See also Parks, Sam
Housesmiths Mutual Protection Association
Iannielli, Edward
Icarus high up on Empire State
ice
idleness
illegal immigration
injuries. See accidents; falling; fatalities
Institute of the Ironworking Industry
International Association of Bridge, Structural and Ornamental Ironworkers
International Association of Bridge and Structural Ironworkers
Irish
iron. See also steel
ironworkers
accident dangers for, (see also accidents)
bars and drinking
beating the wow
bridgemen as early, (see also bridgemen)
climbing columns
B. Conklin’s life as
dangers of falling, (see also falling)
deaths of (see fatalities)
diversity of
first steel-frame skyscrapers and
frustrations of
gangs
on George Washington Bridge
golden age for
as heroes
New York City, (see also New York City)
Monday mornings for, at Time Warner Center, (see also Time Warner Center)
Mohawk Indians as (see Kahnawake [Mohawk Indian reservation]; Mohawk Indians)
Newfoundlanders as (see Newfoundlanders)
raising gangs, (see also raising gangs)
as roughnecks
skills
skyscraper building boom and reputation of
status of, after fall of World Trade Center
superintendent job
unions of, (see also unions)
on Verrazano-Narrows Bridge
violence of (see violence)
union walking delegate Sam Parks (see Parks, Sam)
walking boss job
walking steel
at World Trade Center (see World Trade Center)
young men as
Iroquois Confederacy
I-shape
Jacobs, Paul “Punchy,”
James, Henry
Jay Treaty
Jazz Center
Jenney, William LeBaron
Jerome, William Travers
Jeter, Derek
Jocks, Joe
John Hancock Center
journalists
jungles
Kahnawake (Mohawk Indian reservation). See also Mohawk Indians
collapse of Quebec Bridge
drive between Manhattan and
history of
as home for Mohawk ironworkers
memories of oldest ex-ironworker
Mohawks as bridgemen
move of Mohawks to New York City
search for K. McComber
welcome of World Trade Center workers
kangaroo cranes
Kelly, James L.
Kennedy, Joe
Kennedy, Pat
Kent State University
Keystone Bridge Company
Khan, Fazlur
Kilgore, Howard
Killarney
Kirby, Frank
Kugler, Matt
Labor Day parade
labor unions. See unions
Lachapelle, Theodore
lacrosse
Lajeunesse, Delphis
Lajeunesse, Eugene
Lane, Frank
Larrasey’s general store
Lawson, John
leading edge
Lebarge, Oscar
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