LIFE’s First Cover Story: Building the Fort Peck Dam, 1936
WEBLIFE.com reprints the very first cover story from the very first issue of LIFE magazine with outtakes.
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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.
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WEBAug 9, 2024 — The first issue of Life magazine The cover of the first issue of Life as a weekly magazine under publisher Henry Luce, dated November 23, 1936. It features a photo of Fort Peck Dam in Montana by Margaret Bourke-White. (more)
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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...
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WEBNov 23, 2011 — On this day in 1936, the first issue of Life as a weekly news magazine was published. The cover featured a photo of the Fort Peck Dam by Margaret Bourke-White.
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WEBNov 24, 2015 — On the cover of the first issue of Life: a photo by Margaret Bourke-White of the brand new Fort Peck Dam, built by the Public Works Administration. Before Life as we know it, Life had another life. Life was a humor magazine in the 1920s, a clone of The New Yorker. It didn’t survive the Great Depression. Luce bought the rights to the name.
LIFE magazine’s first issue was published on November 23, 1936
WEBNov 24, 2020 — The inaugural issue of LIFE magazine was published on November 23, 1936. Dam at Fort Peck, Montana, by Margaret Bourke-White graced the cover. Here you can read the cover story from LIFE magazine’s first issue.
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