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Joe Munroe Archive
Description: Before new technologies were widely available in the post-war years, threshing wheat was a laborious task. Crops had to be brought to a thresher like the one pictured here where the wheat and chaff would be separated, as seen in this 1948 Joe Munroe photograph. With the advent of the combine, all of this work could be done on the move, which made it far more efficient. 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_B27_F656_JPG069b
Subjects: Joe Munroe; Wheat--Harvesting.; Farming; Agriculture Technological innovations; Farm equipment.
Places: Mansfield (Ohio); Richland County (Ohio)