Workers begin cutting down the Rockefeller Center's 1953 choice for a Christmas tree with a chain saw

Description

A white workman bends down wearing a ball cap and smoking a cigar as he operates a chain saw already partially in the tree being cut down as the Rockefeller Center's 1953 choice for a Christmas tree, a Norway spruce, near Morristown, New Jersey. Another white male worker standing to the right points at the base of the trunk. Another white man behind the two workers looks on from the left side of the photograph.
1953
Digitizing agency: University of Missouri--Kansas City. Library. Dr. Kenneth J. LaBudde Special Collections.
Handwritten on back, "Workmen cutting R C Christmas Tree's 3 foot trunk 62 years old."