Michael Rafferty waiting for the bus   Save
Joe Munroe Archive
Description: In addition to working on the farm, young people in farming communities had to attend school, so buses were the perfect way to bring together children in these sparsely-populated areas. Farm boy Michael Rafferty waits by the family mailbox for the bus that will take him to school in this 1974 Joe Munroe photograph. 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_B33_F2417_JPG108
Subjects: Joe Munroe; Farm life; Education, Rural; Children
Places: Grinnell (Iowa)