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Joe Munroe Archive
Description: Farmers try to prevent cross-pollination within tobacco crops in order to allow for selection of the most desirable plant types. One method of prevention is shown in this 1946 photograph taken by Joe Munroe, in which the male tobacco plants are covered with bags. 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_F04_JPG051b
Subjects: Joe Munroe; Agriculture; Tobacco farms;
Places: Wisconsin