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[Wheeler, Montana]
[Wheeler, Montana]

[Wheeler, Montana]

Artist (American, 1904–1971)
Date1936 (negative), ca. 1965 (print)
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 10 × 13 3/4 inches (25.4 × 35 cm);
Mount (Matted): 22 1/16 × 27 15/16 inches (56 × 71 cm)
ClassificationsPhotographs
Credit LineGift of the artist, Class of 1927, and LIFE Magazine
Terms
  • Photographs
  • Gelatin silver prints
  • American
Object number65.558
Label CopyWheeler 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)
Collections
[Bar X, Wheeler, Montana]
[Bar X, Wheeler, Montana]
Margaret Bourke-White
1936 (negative), ca. 1965 (print)
[Wheeler, Montana]
[Wheeler, Montana]
Margaret Bourke-White
1936 (negative), ca. 1965 (print)
[Fort Peck Dam, Montana]
[Fort Peck Dam, Montana]
Margaret Bourke-White
1936 (negative); ca. 1965 (print)
[Taxi dancers, Fort Peck, Montana]
[Taxi dancers, Fort Peck, Montana]
Margaret Bourke-White
1936 (negative), ca. 1965 (print)
[Ruby's Place, Montana]
[Ruby's Place, Montana]
Margaret Bourke-White
1936 (negative), ca. 1965 (print)
[The Bar X, New Deal, Montana]
[The Bar X, New Deal, Montana]
Margaret Bourke-White
1936 (negative), ca. 1965 (print)
[Bar X, New Deal, Montana]
[Bar X, New Deal, Montana]
Margaret Bourke-White
1936 (negative), ca. 1965 (print)
Triphammer Falls, Hydraulics Lab, Cornell University, Winter
Triphammer Falls, Hydraulics Lab, Cornell University, Winter
Margaret Bourke-White
ca. 1926 (negative), ca. 1965 (print)
[Face of the Moon: Ruined German cities and railroad junction in Bad Oldesloe after Allied attack near Lübeck]
[Face of the Moon: Ruined German cities and railroad junction in Bad Oldesloe after Allied attack near Lübeck]
Margaret Bourke-White
1945
[Shepherd watching over sheep milling around remains of destroyed German aircraft after Allied Forces raid, Leipzig, Germany]
[Shepherd watching over sheep milling around remains of destroyed German aircraft after Allied Forces raid, Leipzig, Germany]
Margaret Bourke-White
1945 (negative); 1979 (print)
[Communist Riot, Tokyo, May Day]
[Communist Riot, Tokyo, May Day]
Margaret Bourke-White
1952 (negative), ca. 1965 (print)
[Korean soldiers on mountain with flag]
[Korean soldiers on mountain with flag]
Margaret Bourke-White
1952 (negative), ca. 1965 (print)