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Joe Munroe Archive
Description: The postwar era did not have the same effect on farming that it did on the urban landscape. Poorer families looked to the city for prosperity, like this recently-widowed man who worked in town so he could one day save enough to move his children there. Photographed by Joe Munroe, 1946. 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_004
Subjects: Joe Munroe; Farm life; Family farms; Families
Places: Mansfield (Ohio); Richland County (Ohio)