Wheeler, Montana
- Title:
- Wheeler, Montana
- Collection:
- Introduction to Photography Collections at Cornell
- Set:
- Landscape and the Environment
- Creator:
- Bourke-White, Margaret
- Creation Date:
- 1936 (negative)
ca. 1965 (print)
- ID Number:
- 65
- File Name:
- 65.574.jpg
- Work Type:
- Photograph
- Materials/Techniques:
- gelatin silver prints
- Subject:
- cities
Wheeler
Montana
settlements
urban infrastructure - Measurement:
- 56 x 71 (centimeters, height x width)
- Description:
- Aerial view looking across a new small town and into the desert beyond. The image is organized into several horizontal rows, in the foreground are several blocks of houses laid out in a grid, then a larger road, with more blocks of houses beyond, eventually giving way to undeveloped land out to the horizon and dark sky above. The houses seem to mostly be 1-3 story frame buildings. Another wide road makes a vertical line from the bottom of the frame to the other wide road about one third of the way up the image.
- Notes:
- Matted gelatin silver print
The Herbert F. Johnson Museum holds a large collection of prints by Bourke-White from Life Magazine, including others of Wheeler, Montana. the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections holds a small collection of prints by Bourke-White, a Cornell alumni, of the campus. - Cite As:
- Margaret Bourke-White (American, 1904–1971), [Wheeler, Montana], 1936 (negative), ca. 1965 (print). Gelatin silver print. Image: 13 5/8 x 19 1/8 in. (34.6 x 48.6 cm); mount: 22 1/16 × 27 15/16 in. (56 × 71 cm). Gift of the artist, Class of 1927, and LIFE Magazine, 65.574.
- Repository:
- Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- The copyright status and copyright owners of most of the images in the Mellon Teaching Sets Collection are unknown. Whenever possible, information on current rights owners is included with the image. Digitization took place at varied times from items held at Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art in service of a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Cornell is providing access to low-resolution, non-downloadable versions of the materials as a digital aggregate under an assertion of fair use for non-commercial research and educational use. The written permission of any copyright and other rights holders is required for distribution, reproduction, or other use that extends beyond what is authorized by fair use and other statutory exemptions. For more information about these volumes, please contact the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at museum@cornell.edu. Responsibility for making an independent legal assessment of an item and securing any necessary permissions ultimately rests with persons desiring to use the item.