Early morning milking in a newly-built barn   Save
Joe Munroe Archive
Description: Farmers are up before the sun to begin work in this 1947 photograph by Joe Munroe. It shows a farmer heading to his barn to milk the cows on a farm near Webberville, Michigan. 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_B03_F17_001
Subjects: Joe Munroe; Farm life; Dairy industry
Places: Webberville (Michigan)