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Joe Munroe Archive
Description: Close-up photograph of a turkey, taken by Joe Munroe in 1962. Turkey production got a big boost in the postwar years as new technology and new breeding techniques helped to fill the demand for turkey meat. Artificial insemination allowed for 700 turkeys to be inseminated at a cost of only 6 cents per turkey. 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_B09_F07_003
Subjects: Joe Munroe; Farms; Agriculture; Livestock; Turkeys
Places: Missouri