People watch as a crane lifts the Rockefeller Center's Christmas tree into place

Description

A crane hoists the Rockefeller Center's Christmas tree, a Norway spruce, into place while many men in overcoats and fedora hats stand on the sidewalk and watch.
December 1953
Digitizing agency: University of Missouri--Kansas City. Library. Dr. Kenneth J. LaBudde Special Collections.
Typewritten note attached to back, "#10 Another 80-foot boom crane hoists the tree into position on its base which has been built on Rockefeller Plaza above the skating pond. While still supported by the crane, the tree's lower branches are untied and four heavy steel guy cables are attached to the upper trunk and anchored to the buildings to safely secure the tree against the strong winds which blow through Rockefeller Plaza."