The World Before Wireless, As Photographed By Margaret Bourke-White

Margaret Bourke-White, one of the original four staff photographers hired at LIFE magazine when it began publishing in 1936, had a talent for making beautiful pictures from industrial processes. See her photo essay on a Canadian paper mill for one such example. For LIFE’s July 17, 1939 issue Bourke-White documented another industry: the telephone business. ... Read more The post The World Before…