Where did the cover of Flood come from?
Annie Sattler contributed this: The Holiday 1995 TMBG Info Bulletin contains this answer: That photograph was found by Flansburgh in the basement archives of Life magazine. It existed as only a contact print on a roll of film shot by famous photojournalist Margaret Bourke-White. It was in a series of photographs of Kentucky flood victims from around 1930. Another photograph from that very same shoot has become quite well known. It is of people standing in a bread line in front of a billboard poster of a happy family in a car with the words “America: Highest Standard of Living.” It is featured in the Best of Life and has become synonymous with the Great Depression, even though the events surrounding the photograph are unrelated to it. LIFE Photographers: Their Careers and Favorite Pictures by Stanley Rayfield (Doubleday, 1957), contains this short biography of Margaret Bourke-White: “An original Life staff photographer, Margaret Bourke-White made the cover picture for Life’s first issu
