'Burma Shave' sign   Save
Joe Munroe Archive
Description: This "Burma Shave" sign, photographed by Joe Munroe after a sleet storm in 1947, represents a forgotten and slower time in America. The sign, along with its five companions, made up one complete advertisement for Burma Shave. The signs in order read ""Does your husband/Misbehave/Grunt and Grumble/Rant and Rave/Shoot the brute/Some Burma Shave."" Joe Munroe was able to capture this moment in time, before postwar freeway reconstruction eliminated this clever type of sign. 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_B11_F05_001
Subjects: Joe Munroe; Advertisements; Signs
Places: Indiana