Cooling off with a drink during harvest   Save
Joe Munroe Archive
Description: Farmer taking a refreshing drink while harvesting in central Iowa, photographed by Joe Munroe, 1950. A second source identifies the image as a cowboy taking a drink in Arizona in 1965. Farmers were slow to see the prosperity of postwar American as the price for agricultural products remained low on the cost-of-living index. Such farmers only saw about 3 cents from a two dollar box of cereal. 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_B04_F16_002
Subjects: Joe Munroe; Farm life; Family farms; Harvesting
Places: Arizona; Iowa