Wife helps husband cut firewood in northern Michigan   Save
Joe Munroe Archive
Description: Farming is a difficult task and requires a lot of manpower. On this farm in Marquette, Michigan, a wife helps her husband cut firewood in the days before the chainsaw. 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_006
Subjects: Joe Munroe; Farm life; Family farms
Places: Marquette (Michigan)