I took a break from slogging through the minutiae of citation verification for my James E. Allen catalog to put together a small article placing a series of Allen’s etchings of skyscraper steel workers next to historical photographs of the day — James E. Allen – Artistic and Photographic Inspiration. Though there aren’t direct one-to-one connections, I think the similarities are striking. The photographs were popular and widely distributed, so I have no doubt such images would have been a source of inspiration for Allen’s work.