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Joe Munroe Archive
Description: 1960 photograph by Joe Munroe showing a cowboy weighing in a beef cow on a computerized scale at the large breeding stockyards on Oklahoma's Codding Ranch. Munroes 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 Joes 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_B30_F2030_JPG007a
Subjects: Joe Munroe; Farms; Agriculture; Livestock; Beef cattle
Places: Foraker (Oklahoma)