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Joe Munroe Archive
Description: As the demand for chicken grew in the postwar years, large factory farms replaced more traditional family farms. As a result, professional chicken sexers like the one pictured here were needed to separate the large number of chicks into male and female chicks. Photographed by Joe Munroe, 1947. 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_B12_F08_004
Subjects: Joe Munroe; Farming; Chickens--Breeding; Farm life
Places: Illinois