Object Details
Artist
Margaret Bourke-White
Date
1936 (negative), ca. 1965 (print)
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
Image: 10 × 13 3/4 inches (25.4 × 35 cm)
Mount (Matted): 22 1/16 × 27 15/16 inches (56 × 71 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of the artist, Class of 1927, and LIFE Magazine
Object
Number
65.558
Wheeler reportedly had thirty-five hundred inhabitants and sixty-five small businesses during the he(…)
Wheeler reportedly had thirty-five hundred inhabitants and sixty-five small businesses during the heyday of the Fort Peck Dam construction. When LIFE returned to Wheeler for a tenth-anniversary story, the Buck Horn Club was the only building still standing on Main Street. (“Margaret Bourke-White: From Cornell Student to Visionary Photojournalist,” curated by Stephanie Wiles and presented at the Johnson Museum January 24 – June 7, 2015)
