LIFE’s First Cover Story: Building the Fort Peck Dam, 1936
WEBHarry’s idea was to photograph the enormous chain of dams in the Columbia River basin that was part of the New Deal program. I was to stop off at New Deal, a settlement near Billings, Montana, where I would photograph the construction of Fort Peck, the world’s largest earth-filled dam.
LIFE’s First-Ever Cover Story: Building the Fort Peck Dam, 1936
WEBNov 16, 2012 — LIFE’s First-Ever Cover Story: Building the Fort Peck Dam, 1936. 4 minute read. Workers on Montana's Fort Peck Dam blow off steam at night, 1936. Margaret Bourke-White—The LIFE...
First issue of “Life” is published | November 23, 1936 - HISTORY
WEBNov 24, 2009 — On November 23, 1936, the first issue of the pictorial magazine Life is published, featuring a cover photo of the Fort Peck Dam's spillway by Margaret Bourke-White.
Life magazine: The photos that defined the US - BBC
WEBMar 11, 2020 — Life’s first cover story was about the construction of the Fort Peck Dam in Montana. Taken by Margaret Bourke-White, the photograph shows the monumental structure, which seems to emit a sense...
At 75, 'Life' Revisits Its First Cover Story : The Picture Show - NPR
WEBNov 4, 2011 — The story, shot by one of Life 's original four photographers, Margaret Bourke-White, covered the construction of the Fort Peck Dam, a Public Works Administration endeavor to build the...
Historical Vignettes - United States Army Corps of Engineers
WEBFirst LIFE magazine cover from 1936 with logo and photo of Fort Peck Dam's spillway by Margaret Bourke-White (© Margaret Bourke-White/TIMEPIX) Margaret Bourke-White, as one writer has...
LIFE at 80: How a Magazine Covers History, in 37 Images | TIME
WEBNov 22, 2016 — From World War II to the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, from the space age to the assassination of President Kennedy, from the Beatles to Muhammad Ali—it was all part of LIFE. The first cover...
Margaret Bourke-White: 'Great Lady With a Camera' - LIFE
WEBOne of LIFE magazine’s four original staff photographers—her picture of Montana’s monumental Fort Peck Dam graced the cover of the debut issue in November 1936—Bourke-White broke ground again and again throughout her career, notching notable assignments not only as the first woman photographer to accomplish this or that, but as the ...
Fort Peck Dam – Glasgow, Montana - Atlas Obscura
WEBAug 10, 2016 — Fort Peck Dam was featured on the debut cover of Life magazine as FDR’s largest and perhaps most ambitious public works project, putting over 10,000 people to work in a state that, due to...
Fort Peck Dam, Montana
WEBOne of the most iconic works by the American photographer Margaret Bourke-White, Fort Peck Dam, Montana was published on the cover of the inaugural issue of Life magazine on November 23, 1936. Assigned by Henry Luce to cover the massive New Deal project, Bourke-White photographed the dam, the spillway, and daily life …
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