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)
 

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 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: 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)