Description: A woman pays a toll to cross the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge in this 1959 Joe Munroe photograph. Tolls are instituted to raise money for maintenance of roads and bridges with a high traffic volume. Joe Munroe's career began in 1939 at the Cranbrook Academy of Art. He served in the Air Force during World War II and then joined Cincinnati-based Farm Quarterly magazine. Though raised in Detroit, agriculture became an important subject of Joe's photographs. He moved to California in 1955 and free-lanced, taking magazine assignments and selling his own work. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P400_B29_F1065_JPG194
Subjects: Joe Munroe; Toll bridges; People; San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge (Oakland and San Francisco, Calif.)
Places: San Francisco (California)
 

Description: A woman pays a toll to cross the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge in this 1959 Joe Munroe photograph. Tolls are instituted to raise money for maintenance of roads and bridges with a high traffic volume. Joe Munroe's career began in 1939 at the Cranbrook Academy of Art. He served in the Air Force during World War II and then joined Cincinnati-based Farm Quarterly magazine. Though raised in Detroit, agriculture became an important subject of Joe's photographs. He moved to California in 1955 and free-lanced, taking magazine assignments and selling his own work. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P400_B29_F1065_JPG195
Subjects: Joe Munroe; Toll bridges; People; San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge (Oakland and San Francisco, Calif.)
Places: San Francisco (California)
 

Description: Aerial view of the morning traffic commute into San Francisco crossing the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, taken by Joe Munroe, 1972. Bridge traffic is heavily influenced by the presence of tolls that often cause congestion on the busy road. Joe Munroe's career began in 1939 at the Cranbrook Academy of Art. He served in the Air Force during World War II and then joined Cincinnati-based Farm Quarterly magazine. Though raised in Detroit, agriculture became an important subject of Joe's photographs. He moved to California in 1955 and free-lanced, taking magazine assignments and selling his own work. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P400_B33_F2360_JPG189
Subjects: Joe Munroe; Traffic congestion; San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge (Oakland and San Francisco, Calif.); Cars
Places: San Francisco (California)
 

Description: A person pays a toll to drive their car across the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge in this 1959 photograph by Joe Munroe. Tolls are instituted to raise money for maintenance of roads and bridges with a high traffic volume. Joe Munroe's career began in 1939 at the Cranbrook Academy of Art. He served in the Air Force during World War II and then joined Cincinnati-based Farm Quarterly magazine. Though raised in Detroit, agriculture became an important subject of Joe's photographs. He moved to California in 1955 and free-lanced, taking magazine assignments and selling his own work. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P400_B29_F1065_JPG192
Subjects: Joe Munroe; Toll bridges; People; San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge (Oakland and San Francisco, Calif.)
Places: San Francisco (California)
 

Description: A man pays a toll from his car window to cross the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge in this 1959 Joe Munroe photograph. Tolls are instituted to raise money for maintenance of roads and bridges with a high traffic volume. Joe Munroe's career began in 1939 at the Cranbrook Academy of Art. He served in the Air Force during World War II and then joined Cincinnati-based Farm Quarterly magazine. Though raised in Detroit, agriculture became an important subject of Joe's photographs. He moved to California in 1955 and free-lanced, taking magazine assignments and selling his own work. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P400_B29_F1065_JPG193
Subjects: Joe Munroe; Toll bridges; People; San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge (Oakland and San Francisco, Calif.)
Places: San Francisco (California)
 

Description: A passenger in a car pays the toll attendant to cross the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge in this 1959 photograph by Joe Munroe. Tolls are instituted to raise money for maintenance of roads and bridges with a high traffic volume. Joe Munroe's career began in 1939 at the Cranbrook Academy of Art. He served in the Air Force during World War II and then joined Cincinnati-based Farm Quarterly magazine. Though raised in Detroit, agriculture became an important subject of Joe's photographs. He moved to California in 1955 and free-lanced, taking magazine assignments and selling his own work. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P400_B29_F1065_JPG195a
Subjects: Joe Munroe; Toll bridges; People; San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge (Oakland and San Francisco, Calif.)
Places: San Francisco (California)
 

Description: Photograph by Joe Munroe of a woman's hand paying for a toll in San Francisco, California, 1959. Tolls are instituted to raise money for maintenance of roads and bridges with a high traffic volume. Joe Munroe's career began in 1939 at the Cranbrook Academy of Art. He served in the Air Force during World War II and then joined Cincinnati-based Farm Quarterly magazine. Though raised in Detroit, agriculture became an important subject of Joe's photographs. He moved to California in 1955 and free-lanced, taking magazine assignments and selling his own work. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P400_B29_F1065_JPG190
Subjects: Joe Munroe; Toll bridges; People; San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge (Oakland and San Francisco, Calif.)
Places: San Francisco (California)
 

Description: In this 1959 photograph by Joe Munroe, a woman pays a quarter for a toll at the Bay Bridge in San Francisco. Tolls are instituted to raise money for maintenance of roads and bridges with a high traffic volume. Joe Munroe's career began in 1939 at the Cranbrook Academy of Art. He served in the Air Force during World War II and then joined Cincinnati-based Farm Quarterly magazine. Though raised in Detroit, agriculture became an important subject of Joe's photographs. He moved to California in 1955 and free-lanced, taking magazine assignments and selling his own work. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P400_B29_F1065_JPG191
Subjects: Joe Munroe; Toll bridges; People; San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge (Oakland and San Francisco, Calif.)
Places: San Francisco (California)