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Joe Munroe Archive
Description: Photo negative taken by Joe Munroe of a cowboy napping during a 1957 cattle roundup near Placerville, California. 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_B27a_005
Subjects: Joe Munroe; Agricultural laborers; Cowboys; Cattle drives
Places: Placerville (California)