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Mudville, Montana: 1942
March 1942. "Wheeler, Montana. Boom town of the Fort Peck construction era, now nearly deserted." Photo by John Vachon for the Office of War Information. View full size.
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One of Margaret Bourke White's most famous photographs.
With apologies to Ernest Lawrence Thayer
There is no joy in Mudville.
Four Peck Dam photo by Margaret Bourke-White
Perhaps the most recognizable photographs involving Bourke-White show her perched on a Chrysler Building gargoyle. Ironically, she is the subject, not the photographer, of those famous photos. Oscar Graubner, described online as Bourke-White's darkroom assistant, took the photos.
WPA dambuilding project
Wikipedia has a bit on Fort Peck: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Peck,_Montana
Originally an Indian trading post, in the 1930s this was a WPA project to build a dam, some structures remain.
[The dam was also on the cover of the first issue of Life magazine. - Dave]
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