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Joe Munroe Archive
Description: Small farms, like the one owned by Mr. and Mrs. Len Cole, were often the hardest to support. Photographed by Joe Munroe in 1947, these poor farmers worked a 90-acre farm and had an average yearly income of 1,500 dollars. Their central Michigan farm was sold two years after Joe Munroe took this portrait. 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_B04_F16_001
Subjects: Joe Munroe; Farm life; Family farms; Couples
Places: Michigan