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Joe Munroe Archive
Description: Farmers often have gardens in addition to their crop fields, as seen in this 1947 photograph by Joe Munroe which shows a farmer tending his small vegetable plot. 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_B04_F14_JPG049
Subjects: Joe Munroe; Farm life; Agriculture; Vegetable gardening;
Places: Kentucky