Weighing beef cattle on computerized scales   Save
Joe Munroe Archive
Description: Photograph by Joe Munroe showing a cowboy weighing in a beef cow on a computerized scale, taken at the large breeding stockyards at Codding Ranch in Oklahoma. 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_B30_001
Subjects: Joe Munroe; Farms; Agriculture; Livestock; Beef cattle
Places: Foraker (Oklahoma)