Object Details
Artist
Margaret Bourke-White
Date
1936 (negative), ca. 1965 (print)
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
Image: 14 11/16 × 19 1/4 inches (37.3 × 48.9 cm)
Mount: 22 1/16 × 27 15/16 inches (56 × 71 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of the artist, Class of 1927, and LIFE Magazine
Object
Number
65.542
Taxi dancers were paid to dance with the bar patrons, or as LIFE put it, they “will lope all night(…)
Taxi dancers were paid to dance with the bar patrons, or as LIFE put it, they “will lope all night for a nickel a number.” This photograph was published in the magazine above the caption “10,000 Montana Relief Workers Make Whoopee on Saturday Night.” The text continued: “In the shantytowns, which have grown up around the great U.S. work-relief project at Fort Peck, Montana, there are neither long-horns nor lariats.… But there is about everything else the West once knew.” (“Margaret Bourke-White: From Cornell Student to Visionary Photojournalist,” curated by Stephanie Wiles and presented at the Johnson Museum January 24 – June 7, 2015)
