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Joe Munroe Archive
Description: Family farms required everyone to do their share and work as a unit. As such, farming families were often very close and lived and played together. This 1948 photograph by Joe Munroe depicts the David Brown family, who at this point were fifth generation farmers on a 500-acre plot in Illinois. 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_B12_F05_002
Subjects: Joe Munroe; Farm life; Family farms; Family life
Places: Illinois