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Margaret Bourke-White (/ ˈ b ɜːr k /; June 14, 1904 – August 27, 1971) was an American photographer and documentary photographer. [1] She was the first foreign photographer permitted to take pictures of Soviet industry under the Soviets' first five-year plan, [2] was the first American female war photojournalist, and took the photograph (of the construction of Fort Peck Dam) that became ...
The Fort Peck Dam is the highest of six major dams along the Missouri River, located in northeast Montana in the United States, near Glasgow, and adjacent to the community of Fort Peck. At 21,026 feet (6,409 m) in length and over 250 feet (76 m) in height, it is the largest hydraulically filled dam in the United States, and creates Fort Peck ...
Fort Peck Lake. Fort Peck Lake, or Lake Fort Peck, is a major reservoir in Montana, formed by the Fort Peck Dam on the Missouri River. The lake lies in the eastern prairie region of Montana approximately 140 miles (230 km) east of Great Falls and 120 miles (190 km) north of Billings, reaching into portions of six counties.
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Report on June 18, 2011, predicting that 54,600,000 acre-feet (67.3 km 3) of run off would occur above Sioux City in 2011 -- the most in the history of record keeping on the river. It tops the record flow of 49,000,000 acre-feet (60 km 3) in 1997.
Luce's first issue cover depicted the Fort Peck Dam in Montana, a Works Progress Administration project, photographed by Margaret Bourke-White. [12] The format of Life in 1936 was a success: the text was condensed into captions for 50 pages of photographs. The magazine was printed on heavily coated paper and cost readers only a dime ($2.20 in ...
The Schoharie Creek Bridge (NY 1020940, New York State bridge identification number), began full service beginning in October 1954. In the spring and summer of 1955, the pier plinths began to show vertical cracks ranging from 0.12 to 0.20 in (3 to 5 mm), as a result of high tensile stresses in the concrete plinth.
September 27, 2024 at 2:35 PM. (This report has been updated with new information.) Officials in Cocke County urged all of downtown Newport to evacuate immediately just after 3 p.m. Sept. 27 ...
45,300 cu ft/s (1,280 m 3 /s) Milk River[5] is a tributary of the Missouri River, 729 miles (1,173 km) long, in the U.S. state of Montana and the Canadian province of Alberta. Rising in the Rocky Mountains, the river drains a sparsely populated, semi-arid watershed of 23,800 square miles (62,000 km 2), ending just east of Fort Peck, Montana.