JOE MUNROE - ARCHIVE
100 Estates Dr., Orinda, CA 94563, 925-254-5112
email: josmun@comcast.net , joe@joemunroephotography.com

Joe's classic, click here - Two loving pigs, Iowa, 1969, (Archive # 24)

Joe's classic, click here - For LIFE, 21 students crammed in phone booth, 1959, (Archive # 199)

PHOTOGRAPHY - Index to Stills and Cinema


Joe Munroe has had 60 years of filmmaking and still photography with his own
self-generated projects, and for such as LIFE, National Geographic and P.B.S.
Munroe studied with Ansel Adams, photographed for Frank Lloyd Wright and was
Director of Photography for the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan.
After service in World War II, he became a contract free-lance photojournalist
for LIFE and other magazines and books.

Joe's early photography, beginning in the late 1930s, was in stills, then he began
documentary cinema in the 1970s. This Website contains about 400 stills. He's worked
with a wide variety of subject matter ( see Index, Categories 1 thru 5).
Two of his widely known images happen to be from a light-hearted genre. First, from a
LIFE assignment, 21 college students stuffed into a phone booth, (Image # 199).
Another is a closeup of two loving piglets, (Image # 24), from his series on farm life.

(To view, with good quality and reasonable downloading time, cinema/audio clips from his
movie productions in farming, rural life, the natural world, jazz and the Grand Canyon,
please contact Munroe for a separate cdrom.)

The Joe Munroe Archival Collection is now with the Ohio Historical Society,in
Columbus. During his lifetime, Munroe has all rights for exhibition and selling use
of his images for exhibits, publication or sale to collections.


Copyrights Reserved, 2004. Written permission required for any reproduction rights.


NOTE:All Photographs, Copyright, Joe Munroe, 2004


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1) Farming, Livestock and Rural Life

2) Cities, Industry, Science

3) Places, Nature, Adventure, Environment

4) People

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6) Computer Setting and Resolution Notes


Farming, Livestock and Rural Life


SPECIAL NOTE - (on this group about farming and rural life.)

FROM THE DIVINING ROD TO THE COMPUTER

BEFORE WORLD WAR II, there still were remote farm areas that used ancient
techniques, like finding subsoil water by "witching" with a hazelwood divining twig.
In the fertile U.S. soils and equable climate, farmers grew nearly all of the
U.S. food, and for much of the world besides. Yet outmoded technology, combined
with low crop prices, had many farmers fighting for their very existence.

FROM 1935 to '43, this paradox prompted a pre-war photographic project, directed
by Roy Stryker, for the U.S. Farm Security Administration. Among the photographers
were Arthur Rothstein, Walker Evans, Carl Mydans, and Dorothea Lange. In the
depression years before World War II, this group created for F.S.A. a widely seen,
poignant visual record of U.S. rural hardship. World War II saw the end of
the F.S.A. photo project, and those photographs are now in the Library of Congress.

BEGINNING 1946 TO 1975, photographer Joe Munroe, for U.S.I.A. (U.S. Information
Agency), Farm Quarterly Magazine, and other publications, continued making an
extensive collection with his photographs, embodying the spirit of the old F.S.A. efforts,
but in a post-war context of hard working, but happier times on U.S. farms.

WORLD WAR II ENDED THE RURAL ECONOMIC DEPRESSION.
There are still vestiges of poverty and antiquated farm work and social life. But there
was growing demand, firming crop prices, government aid; and fewer and bigger
farms. Work ethics and social values of the family farm were mixing with onrushing
technology and agribusiness consolidation. Corporate acquisitions affected both
the number of farms, and management style. There was new thinking: seeds, genetics,
machines, chemicals, and a new rural lifestyle. All this was taking place within
a revered American ethic: the concept of morality in national respect for our
soil, and our perception of the independence and integrity of farming life.
Farming, a most important U.S. industry, went from the divining rod to the computer.

TODAY, Joe Munroe's is the only collection bringing personal photojournalism
to interpreting that new and progressive time in U.S. farm life. Index #1, (below)
accesses 220 stills from Munroe's twenty-five year, visual essay on the changing
agriculture after World War II. More than in any other similar period, vital changes
in farming and rural life occured during that quarter-century. With vigor
and good spirits, Munroe shows new technology blending with age-old values
of the farmer and his land. Some say these images transcend farming stereotypes with
"truths" about rural life, land and work - a world we are in grave danger of losing.

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1) Farming, Livestock and Rural Life (TOP)
 

BEEF AND DAIRY CATTLE AND MILKING
 

001.jpg - An Ohio farm lad playfully tickles the nose of a Hereford beef bull,1948.
Beef bulls, allowed to roam freely with the cows, are more gentle than dairy bulls that
are confined primarily as semen sources for use in artificial insemination. Neg.# 628-20

002.jpg - James Quisenbury, and his prize Angus beef bull, Kentucky, 1948.
Do some farmers get to look like their livestock? Neg.# 608-11

003.jpg - Calf in feedlot kisses stray cat, near Phoenix, Arizona, 1968, Neg.# 2318-8

004.jpg - From self-unloading trucks, fattening beef cattle for market, Bakersfield,
California, 1965, Negative # 2229-4

005.jpg - Mass cattle feeding, Garst Farms, Coon Rapids, Iowa ,1952.- Neg.# 820-I

006.jpg - Hereford steer in feedlot licking nose covered with molasses and grain feed
1952, Ohio - Neg. # 820-I-12

007.jpg - Researcher, Dr. Wise Burroughs,looking into a surgical opening at digesting feed
in Hereford steer's first stomach, or rumen. Ohio State University, 1952-(COLOR)

007a.jpg - Weighing and registering beef cattle on computerized scales on large
ranch, Foraker, Oklahoma, 1960. Neg. series # 2030-4

008.jpg - Small beef cattle herd being moved along farm road, Iowa, 1960s (COLOR)

009.jpg - A late stray is guided in with the dairy herd for evening milking,
Petaluma, California, 1962, Neg.# 2098-3-29

010.jpg - Newlyweds, handmilking, Dot and Roy Rowland, on 75 acre rented cotton and
dairy farm, Vanatta, Tennessee, 1952, Neg. series # 2197. (See also pics #s 268, 269)

011.jpg - Cows are milked 365 days a year. Little time for a dairy farmer's vacation.
Hand milking, Darling farm, Wooster, Ohio 1952, Neg. # 820-E

012.jpg - Dairymaid, Jean Kallan, keeps cows relaxed by singing softly while milking,
1948, New York State, Neg.# 619-58

013.jpg - Part of diary herd at rest on Wisconsin farm, 1962, (COLOR)

014.jpg - Dairy cows, old stump on skimpy pasture, northern Michigan, 1946,
Neg.# 489-33

015.jpg - Holstein dairy cow, excitable when in heat, falling on wet barn floor,
Michigan,1947, Neg. # 542-2

016.jpg - Bottle feeding calves when first weaned from mother, Michigan, 1947,
Neg. # 542-32

017.jpg - Farm cat in barn at milking time, waits for drippings, Wisconsin, 1960s,
(COLOR)

018.jpg - Farm cats scavenge milk drippings from emptied buckets, Ohio, 1948,
Neg. # 660-29

019.jpg - As with the black and white Holsteins, Guernsey breed, above,
is also rated high for milk production, 1946, Illinois, Neg. # 511-60

020.jpg - Grandmother and grandaughter hand-churning milk into butter in farm
kitchen. Northern peninsula, Michigan, 1947 - Neg. # 489-16

021.jpg - Combing the curds and whey, making cheddar cheese in bulk,
Kiel, Wisconsin, 1960s. (COLOR)

022.jpg - Farmer heads for milking barn at dawn, Michigan, 1947,- Neg. # 543-6

023.jpg - Checking milk temperature in stainless steel storage tank, 1966, Arizona,
(COLOR)
 

PIGS
 

024.jpg - Two loving pigs, Duroc barrows, on Ralph Howe's 320 acre hog and beef
farm, Clemons, Iowa, 1969. (COLOR)

025.jpg - Washing purebred sow before mating, Missouri, 1962, Neg. series 2453
Pigs have probably paid off more farm mortgages than any other single farm product.

026.jpg - Farmer walks boar to sow for mating, Missouri, 1962, Neg.# 2453-3

027.jpg - Pig's eye looks up from feed trough, Indiana, 1955, Neg.# 1000-G63

028.jpg - Single piglet suckling sow, Missouri, 1962, Neg.# 2453-3

029.jpg - Litter of suckling piglets w/sow, Missouri, 1962, Neg. series # 2453

030.jpg - Piglet from litter being weighed on kitchen scale, small farm,
Indiana, 1954, Neg.#1000-G50

031.jpg - Moving piglets in farm barn, Vina, California, 1967 (COLOR)

032.jpg - Slaughtering pig on small farm, Indiana, 1955. The cycles of
living and dying with crops and livestock are keenly seen and felt as an
everyday occurence on the farm. Neg. #1000G

033.jpg - Happy farmer and piglet, Wisconsin, 1947, Neg. #785-15
 Hogs are raised in all 50 states, mostly midwest. Corn and soybeans make up bulk of food.

SHEEP 

034.jpg - Newborn lamb, Idaho, 1967, Neg. # 2289-7-27

035.jpg - Watering sheep on Naylor ranch, Idaho, 1966 - Neg. # 2264-3

036.jpg - Farmer and sheep dog at dawn, central Ohio, 1946, Neg.# 458-33

037.jpg - Sheep fleece w/rancher's hands, 1957, New Mexico, Neg.# 985-4

038.jpg - Sheep jumps for joy when released from pen, New Mexico, 1957, Neg. # 985-14

039.jpg - Farmer keeping records of purebred sheep flock, 1946, Ohio, Neg. 446-40

040.jpg - Moving sheep, Mission of San Francisco de Asis, Taos, New Mexico,
1965(COLOR )

041.jpg - Herding sheep, Imperial Valley, 1961, California
(COLOR)

042.jpg - Bringing sheep flock to ranch, Montana, 1962 (COLOR)

043.jpg - Importing Australian sheep, San Francisco, 1960, Neg. # 2024-10  

CHANGING TECHNOLOGY  

044.jpg - Abandoned barn, central Ohio, 1946. In the 50 yr. period around WWII,
the number of farms in the U.S. dropped from six million to about two million. Neg.# 458-13

044a.jpg - Dairy barn used as billboard. central Michigan, 1947 Neg.# 551-23

044b.jpg - Prestigious but expensive round barn, south central Ohio, 1947, Neg. # 587-42

045.jpg Horses, with tractor, harrowing and planting,1947, Spanish Fork, Utah.
By end World War II, farm horses were nearly gone. Neg.# 571-7

046.jpg - Bringing hay to barn in horse-drawn wagon, Wisconsin,1947, Neg.# 576-97
Freshly cut hay has inviting smell.

046a.jpg - Cutting hay with horse-drawn cutter, 1947, Wisconsin, Neg. # 576-75

047.jpg - Homesteaders from Ohio clearing land in Matanuska Valley, Alaska, 1947,
Most good farmers realize that, while they may legally "own" the land today,
over the long term they are merely short term caretakers for the future. Neg.# 572-110

047a.jpg - Legendary early settler, John Buggy, Palmer, Alaska, 1947, Neg. # 572-144

048.jpg - Planting tomatoes, Matanuska Valley, Alaska, 1947, Neg. # 572 - 267

049.jpg - Planting small backyard farm garden, Kentucky, 1947, Neg.# 559-24

050.jpg - Farmer and wife planting small farm garden, New York state, 1950,
Neg.# 752-168. Number of people one farmer feeds grew from 10 to over 50 by 1975.

051.jpg - Cross-pollinating plants, controlling nature's "random passion",
California, 1956, Neg. # 2461-2

051a.jpg - Field grown for hybrid seed sorghum, (milo) striped with male and female rows,
Iowa 1959, Neg. # 1090-R-8

051b.jpg - Field ot tobacco, southern Wisconsin, 1946, Neg. # 521-1.
heads of certain plants are covered with paper bags to prevent accidental cross pollination.

052.jpg - Machinery for 400 acre midwestern farm, Ohio, 1949 - Neg.# 699-15.
Trends toward fewer and bigger farms - 6 million to 2 million in a 50 year period.

053.jpg - Hanging clothes outdoors to dry on old farm, Indiana, 1947 - Neg.# 559-34

054.jpg - Farm women help with haying, 1947, Michigan, Neg. # 489-38

055.jpg - Farm woman helps with cutting firewood, Michigan, 1947, Neg .# 489-60
There was an "urbanization" of farm life, but the trends bypassed many rural areas.

055a.jpg - Local gov't milk tester, Elizabeth Nichols, central New York State, traveled
wide area, with kit, testing each dairy's milk output cleanliness and quality.
1948, Neg.# 616-8

055b.jpg - Local gov't milk tester, Elizabeth Nichols, central New York State, traveled a
wide area, with kit, testing her area dairyfarm's milk output for cleanliness and quality.
In winter snowstorms, farmers often hauled her to the farm from a distant clear auto road
by horse and wagon, sometimes needing overnight stay. 1948, Neg.# 616-15

055c.jpg - Local gov't milk tester, Elizabeth Nichols, in winter outfit, central New York State,
with kit to test each dairyfarm's milk output cleanliness and quality. 1948, Neg. # 616-41

056.jpg - Lighting old-fashioned smudge pot during orchard frost, California, 1962,
Neg. # 2084-21-6. Due to area smoke pollution, such old methods of protecting
orchards against late season frost were largely replaced with wind machines.

057.jpg - Tiny jets efficiently power orchard warmer, California,1962.
Excessive noise made these machines unpopular. Time exposure. Neg .# 2123-16

058.jpg - Immigrant laborer stoops to pick tomatoes, California, 1960 -
Neg.# 2041-7-28

059.jpg - Field pack lettuce, crew of 26, picked and packed to grocery shelf,
Salinas, California, 1962 - (COLOR)

060.jpg - Field pack carrots, crew of 70, field to grocery shelf, Salinas, California, 1962,
(COLOR)

060a.jpg - Mobile packing carrots, field to grocery shelves, Crew of 70, 3 r.r. cars/day,
Salinas, California, 1962

061.jpg - Mechanized alfalfa hay/silage gathering, 1960s, California, (COLOR)

COTTON

062.jpg - Picking cotton by hand, Grady Shepard farm, Plainview, Texas, 1960
Neg. # 2039-1-34

063.jpg - Mechanical cotton pickers. 1 machine in 1 hour = 72 hrs. handpick.
Bakersfield, CA.,1965, Neg.# 2088-1-12

064.jpg - Cotton harvester at sunset. near Bakersfield, CA., 1965, (COLOR)

065.jpg - Cotton boll weevil closeup, 1965 (COLOR)

SOYBEANS - BARLEY. - GRAPES - ORCHARDS - WHEAT

066.jpg - Farmer bites soybean to test moisture at harvest, Iowa, 1974, Neg.# 2417

066ab.jpg - Soybean harvest, Indiana, 1947, Neg.# 597-7, ( see also # 201)

067.jpg - Blowing barley heads, checking moisture at harvest, Michigan, 1947 -
Neg. # 458-11

068.jpg - Pruning, Napa Valley, California. vineyard, Spring, 1957, Neg.# 981-CR2

069.jpg - Hand harvest grapes w/knife, California, 1961 - Neg.# 2084-15-1

069a.jpg - Bulk grape harvest going into Buena Vista winery, Sonoma, California,
1978, Neg. # 2431-4-9

069b.jpg - Old-time, on-farm wheat harvest/threshing, Ohio, 1948, Neg. 656-4

070.jpg - Self-propelled combine during wheat harvest, from Texas to the Dakotas,
Crews with self-propelled combines contract with farms annually for wheat harvesting.
"Combines" are huge, clanking machines for the harvesting of grains, such as
corn, wheat,soybeans, sorghum and rice. They combine the cutting the plant, stripping
grain from the ear or stalk, auguring the grain to a storage bin and blowing the chaff
behind the machine - in one action moving through the fields. California, 1954 Neg. # 1000D

070a.jpg - Wheat combine operator gets field instructions, California, 1954.Neg. series 1000

070b.jpg - Farmer weighs small wheat sample, Kingston, Ohio, 1949, Neg. # 698-5

071.jpg - Tree shaker machine dislodges ripe crop, such as almonds, California, 1962.
(COLOR)

072.jpg - Orchard harvester, sweeping shaken crop for processing, California, 1962,
(COLOR)

072a.jpg - Orchard harvester gathers shaken crop for processing, California, 1988,
(COLOR)

072b.jpg - Making fruit preserves, Smuckers Co, Oroville, Ohio, 1975, (COLOR)

CORN

073.jpg - Old farmer's hand and corn seed, California, 1958 - Neg. #1011

073a.jpg - Farmer inspecting corn before harvest, Nebraska, 1974 Neg. Series # 2418

073b.jpg - 12-row corn planter, also simultaneously applies fertilizer and insecticide.
Iowa 1975, Neg.series 2407

073c.jpg - Farmer inspecting corn seed drop depth and pattern behind 12-row planter.
Iowa 1975, Neg. series 2407-2-22a

074.jpg - Corn combine during harvest, Iowa, 1970, (COLOR)

075.jpg - Corn combine spewing harvest, Nebraska,1975, Neg.#2418-366-25
U.S. corn production was leveling at about 6 billion bushels, up from 3 billion
in the mid-1940s. 95% of corn is for livestock feed and commercial purposes.
5% is "sweet" corn for table use.

RICE

076.jpg - Rice fields, from air, near Grimes, California,1961, Neg.# 2064-4-5

077.jpg - Rice planted, sprayed, fertilized by air, California, 1961, Neg. series # 2064

078.jpg - Baby powder eases burly rice harvester's itch from swirling chaff,
California, 1961, Neg.#2064-22

079.jpg - It takes hard days in the field to put food on the world's tables.
Rice farm owner at harvest, California, 1961, (COLOR)

080.jpg - Rice plant closeup at harvest time, California, 1961, (COLOR)

081.jpg - Rice harvester at dusk, Colusa, California, 1961, (COLOR)
 

IRRIGATION
(see also pic # 275)
 

082.jpg - Hand shoveling irrigation ditches, Utah, 1947 - Neg.# 571-130

083.jpg - Hand/shovel irrigation, asparagus field, California, 1965, Neg. # 2115-4

084.jpg - Irrigating California field, infra-red film, 1958, Neg. #1035-2

085.jpg - Self-propelled irrigation rig, unattended, soaks 160 acres in 24 hours,
Nevada, potato field, 1968, (COLOR)

086.jpg - Patterns from self-propelled irrigation rig in potato fields,
Eureka, Nevada 1960s, Neg. 2424-W

087.jpg - Sprinkler irrigation in farm field, California, 1960s, (COLOR)

POULTRY & BIRDS

088.jpg - Farmers called turkeys " biggest boobs in the barnyard," Missouri, 1962,
Neg.# 2453-2. No one really knows why a turkey has that crinkly, red wattle.

088a.jpg - "Boss" hen leads barnyard flock, Ohio, 1948, Neg.#. 747-96

088b.jpg - Girl hand-feeding farm chicken flock, Palmer, Alaska, 1947,
Neg. series # 572

089.jpg - Professional chick sexors separate females from males, about 900 per hour.
Male chicks eat expensively, their meat is tough and they don't lay eggs.
Their lives are short. Illinois, 1947, Neg. # 562-5

090.jpg - Proud hen, raised in cages, lays two eggs, Michigan, 1947, Neg.# 500-7

091.jpg - Baby chicks, Missouri, 1963, Neg. series # 2453

092.jpg - Massed blackbirds and grackles swoop over farm, California, 1961,
Neg.# 2084-19-27

093.jpg - Hanging a dead crow in orchard frightens away other crows, California, 1962,
Neg.# 2115-5

094.jpg - Raised on farm, fighting cock receives death blow, was dead 30 secs. later,
Indiana, 1948 (COLOR)

095.jpg - Farmer takes trained geese to cotton fields to eat insects.
near Shafter, California,1965, Neg.# 2242-6-15
 

CHEMICALS - DUSTING - SPRAYING
 

095a.jpg Neighbor lads help spray insecticide on vegetables on Wisconsin farm,1947,
Neg.#2461-1

095b.jpg Neighbor lads help cultivate small farm strawberry patch, Wisconsin, 1946,
Neg.#461-4

096.jpg Aerial spraying insecticide, newly planted lettuce, California, 1970,
Neg.# 2343

097.jpg - Insecticide ground spray in young citrus orchard, California, 1962 ,
Neg.# 2115-8

098.jpg - Spraying citrus orchard, Ventura, California, 1968,(COLOR)

099.jpg - Aerial crop dusting potato field, Lodi, California, 1962 (COLOR)

100.jpg - Crop spraying by air at deep dusk, Modesto, California, 1970 (COLOR)
 

FIELDS AND LAND
 

101.jpg - Farm fields contour-plowed to stop rain erosion, Ohio,1951, Neg. 913-21

102.jpg - Hillside fields plowed on contour control rain runoff erosion,
Wisconsin, 1947, Neg. # 576-17

102a.jpg - Brome grass in farm pasture mix, Knox County, Ohio, 1946, Neg. # 493-2

102b.jpg - Farmer inspecting soil clod from pasture, central Ohio, 1948, Neg. # 634-19

103.jpg - Central Valley farmland, California, 1966, Neg. series # 2268

104.jpg - Western farmstead, California central valley, 1966, Neg. series#2268

104a.jpg - Central Iowa farmstead, 1974, Neg.#2417-354-12a

105.jpg - Large plow, Montana rangeland, Neg.#2038-23

106.jpg - New York State farm in winter. 1948, Neg.# 619-31

107.jpg - Strategically scattered windmills (and barbed wire) made possible early
cattle raising in the westward settlement on the vast, rolling and thirsty Great Plains,
Nebraska, 1974, Neg. # 2418-387 (See also pic # 171)
 

RURAL SCHOOLS
 

108.jpg - Farm boy, Michael Raffety, waiting for school bus, Grinnell, Iowa, 1974,
Neg.# 2417-13 (see also pic # 116)

109.jpg - Walking to rural one-room school, Williamston, Michigan,1947, Neg #.523-14

110.jpg - Farm kids walking to school bus, New York State, 1951, (COLOR)

111.jpg - Kids laughing on way to school, Hurricane, Utah, 1947, Neg. # 571-101

112.jpg - Teacher, Margaret Suttell, and students in one-room school, Williamston,
Michigan, 1947. Mrs. Suttell mothered and scolded 23 pupils in 8 grades. This school
closed in 1957. Neg.# 523-14. Mrs. Suttell claimed country schools were
better than city schools, as "the youngsters got more personal attention."

112a.jpg - Rural grade school near Lebanon, Connecticut. 1950, Neg.# (see Munroe)

113.jpg - Rural grade school, kids on swing, Iowa, 1949, Neg. # 705-109

114.jpg - Farm school lad on outhouse seat, Connecticut, 1950, Neg. 2471-1

115.jpg - Schoolgirl, Chi Chi Jima, an island south of Japan, 1969 (COLOR)
 

FARM PEOPLE, ACTIVITIES, CROPS, ANIMALS, PLANTS, SCENES

  (see also - pics # 265, 266, 268, 269.)

116.jpg - Farmer, Maynard Raffety, and grandson, Michael, in farmyard,
Grinnell, Iowa, 1974. Maynard hoped Michael would stay on the farm,
but Michael was interested in computers, and after college he went to work for a
Chicago brokerage house. Neg. # #2417-35, (see also pic # 108)

116a.jpg - Three farmers with adjoining fields talk over fence about cooperative
improvements, Michigan, 1947, Neg. 523 series

117.jpg - Grandma, granddaughters, farmhouse melodeon, New York state, 1952,
Neg.# 752-14

118.jpg - Workers strike in California tomato fields,
"$1.00 an hour. Aren't we worth $1.25?" 1960, Neg.# 2041-5

119.jpg - Vestiges pre-war rural poverty. 1946, Widower family on poor farm,
Ohio, Neg. # 458-38

120.jpg - Louisiana "Cajun" farm couple, Mr. & Mrs. Joe Stelley, w/cats,
raised sweet potatoes and garlic, 1949, Neg.# 697-14

121.jpg - Women were strong-willed anchors of the farm family. Illinois, 1948,
Neg # 676-26

122.jpg - Close knit farm families. The David Browns, fifth generation,
on the same 500 acre Illinois farm, 1948, Neg.# 676-87

123.jpg - Working team. Judd McKnight, sheep rancher and family, 1957, Roswell,
New Mexico. Judd and wife, Granny, began sheep raising in 1901 with no land and
1100 mortgaged sheep. By 1957 the family owned 20,000 sheep, and 200,000 acres.
Neg.# 985-12

124.jpg - Halloween on Connecticut farm, apple bobbing, 1951, Neg.# 2471-2

125.jpg - Halloween dancing on Connecticut farm, 1951. Neg.# 2471-1

125a.jpg - Farmer and son crow hunting on farm woodlot,southern Ohio, 1947.
Neg. # 561-5

126.jpg - Veterinary,Dr. S.L. Saylor, arrives at Ohio farm in snowstorm, 1951.
By 1975 there were about 29,000 veterinarians serving U.S. farmers.
Neg. series # 788 or 1015

127.jpg - Veterinary, Saylor, vaccinating cow, Canal Winchester, Ohio, 1951,
Neg.# 788

128.jpg - Veterinary artificially inseminates dairy cow., Turlock, California,
1964, Neg. # 2189-7

129.jpg - Street with brick sidewalk, Mount Vernon, Ohio, 1951,

130.jpg - Mount Vernon, Ohio, Xmas, Presbyterian church candlelight service.
1953 - (COLOR)

131.jpg - Postman, John Breece on foot, 22 yrs. service, Mount Vernon, Ohio, 1951,
Neg.# 913-13a,-D-96

131a.jpg - Postman, John Breece, on foot, Mount Vernon, Ohio, 1951, Neg.# 916-13a

132.jpg - Small town lad delivers newspaper on unicycle, Bellefontaine,
Ohio,1950 Neg. # 2384-6-10

133.jpg - Customer at Mrs. Wagner's "Rolling Store", backroads Kentucky,1953, Neg.# 853

134.jpg - At a poetry reading of The Wimodausians, a farm women's literary society
founded in 1890, Carlisle, Ohio, 1950 - Neg. # 776-20,
"Sometimes her narrow kitchen walls, stretched away into stately halls."

134a.jpg - Rural census taker with elderly farm couple., southern Ohio, 1954
Neg. series # 1000-E

135.jpg - Rural small town home gate, Ludington, Michigan, 1942, Neg. # 305

135a.jpg - Pumpkins, gourds and squash in farmyard, central Ohio, 1950s, (COLOR)

136.jpg - Leroy Durrieux farm in winter, near Mount Vernon, Ohio , 1954, COLOR

137.jpg - Small town scene, Washington State wheat-growing area, 1960s, (COLOR)

138.jpg - Pussy willow, closeup, Ohio, 1948, (COLOR)

139.jpg - Burma Shave road sign, from a bygone era, before freeways, Indiana,1947,
"Does your husband / Misbehave? / Grunt and grumble / Rant and rave
Shoot the brute / Some BURMA SHAVE - Neg. # 540-58

140.jpg - Farmer burns trash on farm, Ohio, 1954, (COLOR)

141.jpg - Standardbred quarter horses, near Wellington,Ohio, 1954,
Neg. #1000-C -1.

142.jpg - Lonesome milking goat waits for herdsman, Ohio, 1946, Neg.# 453-14

143.jpg - Dead rat on farm, Ohio, 1948, Neg. #614-7. Most farmers feel a rat
is an evil and unlovely animal, and it's violent death is simple poetic justice.
In 1948 the nationwide farm rat bill was about $300 million a year.

144 jpg - Female hamster pet on farm , Ohio, 1947, Neg. # 564-15

144a.jpg - Adding to everyday farming, this Ohio farmer in 1948 raised mushrooms
commercially in underground cellar on his farm. He sniffs manure compost used as soil.
Neg. # 610-4

144b jpg - Picking mushrooms from growing bed in dark farm cellar, Ohio 1948,
Neg. # 610-8



LOUIS BROMFIELD AND MALABAR FARM

 

145.jpg - Pulitzer novelist, Hollywood screenwriter, syndicated columnist,
world traveler and farmer, Louis Bromfield, and visitors on his Malabar Farm near
Lucas, Ohio, 1948. Bromfield liked to tell visitors, "In a world filled with multiple
means of destruction, the farmer's bright business is the creating, and sustaining,
of life." Neg.# 661-13,

146.jpg - Louis Bromfield, Malabar Farm, with one of his Boxer dogs, 1950.
Bromfield was raised in central Ohio, served in ambulance corps in World War ll and was
post-war owner of Malabar Farm near Lucas, Ohio where he lived until he died in 1956.
A sincere, worthwhile experiment, and Bromfield's chosen lifestyle, Malabar was never
financially viable as a working farm. Neg. series # 745.

147.jpg - Louis Bromfield's Malabar Farm, Ohio, 1952, "The Big House"
Neg.# approx.710

148.jpg - Malabar Farm barn w/painted door, Ohio, 1946, Neg. # 458-17

149.jpg - Mary Bromfield, Louis' wife,and Boxer dogs, Malabar Farm, Ohio, 1946 ,
Neg. # 458-77

150.jpg - Malabar Farm, overall view from nearby hill, "Mt. Jeez,", Ohio, 1948,
Neg.# 661-20

151.jpg - Malabar Farm, steps of old burned farmhouse nearby, Ohio, 1946,
Neg.# 458-6B

152.jpg - Malabar Farm, Ohio, haying scene, infra-red, 1953, Neg.# 852-2

153.jpg - Malabar Farm, Bromfield on tractor at dawn, Ohio, 1950, Neg.# 808-195

154.jpg - Two kids on Malabar Farm road, Ohio, 1947, Neg.# 575-2

155.jpg - Bromfield's daughter, Ellen, helping with maple sugaring,
Spring, Malabar Farm, Ohio,1947, Neg.# 555-18

156.jpg - Louis Bromfield and farmhand maple sugaring, Ohio, 1947, Neg. # 555-4

157.jpg - Neighboring wife in Malabar Farm springhouse, Ohio, 1953, Neg. # 859-7

158.jpg - Angry goose nesting at Malabar Farm, Ohio, 1950, Neg. 745-10

158a.jpg - Louis Bromfield in "Big House" living room, Ohio,1949, Neg. # 705-13

159.jpg - George Hawkins, Bromfield's press & scheduling manager," Ohio, 1946,
Neg. # 458-52

160.jpg - L.Bromfield and R.Huge, farmers in barn door on rainy day, Ohio, 1948,
Neg.622-4

161.jpg - Wild skunk cabbage in Malabar Farm woodlot, Ohio, 1952, Neg. 811-107

162.jpg - Snow on Malabar Farm tree branches, Ohio, 1953, . Neg. # 869-26

163.jpg - Louis Bromfield, Ohio, 1954, (COLOR)
(See also pic # 286)

CATTLE ROUNDUP
 

CONTINUITY AMIDST CHANGE

On ranches in the western U.S., from Texas to Montana and west to the Pacific,
raising range cattle in the great cow-calf herds is a classic example of
continuity amidst change. It began in the mid-1800s. The Indians were subdued.
The buffalo was hunted to extinction, leaving land and grass for the fledgling
cattle industry. Early cattle - tough Texas longhorns - subsisted on little water
and sparse range during the long drives to scattered railheads leading east.

Longhorns were soon replaced by the gentler, meatier and more palatable breeds
like the Herefords from England and eastern U.S. They were able to use more
efficiently the good prairie grass, abundant as the buffalo became extinct.

Today, a roundup on a large western ranch of perhaps a hundred thousand acres
or more usually takes place in the autumn, and might be about 3,000 animals.
Lasting one to two weeks, the roundup consists of gathering and counting the herd,
branding new calves, and castrating male calves to become steers. The herd is
vaccinated and "dipped" for insects. About 500 heifers and young calves and
a few selected bulls are turned back to the high country range, with the basic
herd of about 1500 brood cows, to produce next year's calf crop. Roughly 700
steer calves are sold and shipped for more rapid fattening in mass feedlots near
urban centers. Here are a few selections from Munroe's archive on roundups.


164.jpg - Roundup crew dawn breakfast. Seligman, Arizona, 1965 - Neg.# 2253-14-29

165.jpg - Cowboys are a proud lot. Arizona, 1965, Neg. # 2253-28

166.jpg - Cowboy, Arizona, 1965, Neg.# 2253-16-35. For a couple of weeks on the range
during roundup, cowboys live entirely off the "chuck wagon" which carries all
food and supplies. The term "on the wagon" as applied to sober periods was derived,
as no alcohol is allowed during roundup.

167.jpg - Top hand cowboy and wife who cooks for crew on roundup, Arizona, 1965,
Neg. series # 2253

168.jpg - Cowboy swigs water over shoulder, Arizona, 1965, Neg. # 765-49

169.jpg - Lassoing roundup horse in morning, Arizona,1965, Neg.# 2253-9-20

170.jpg - Steers in insect "dip" trough, roundup, Arizona, 1965, Neg. # 2171-5

171.jpg - Steer peers through barbed wire fence. Barbed wire and windmills
were key to early cattle ranching on the thirsty Great Plains. Nebraska, 1975,
Neg. # 2418-381-24, (see also pic.#107)

172.jpg - After roaming freely on the range for months, nervous beef cattle swirl
when first penned in corral after roundup, California, 1956, Neg. # 953-106

173.jpg - Hooves of milling cattle during roundup, Arizona, 1965 (COLOR)

174.jpg - Since mid-1800s, hundreds of individual brands registered by
separate ranches are burned into the hides of very young cattle, protecting owners,
as the great cow herds sometimes wander and intermingle on the far-flung
grazing lands in the West. Branding iron heated in fire, Arizona, 1965 (COLOR)

175.jpg - Cowboy rides "cutting" horse, especially trained for reversals and
stop/starts, for separating and herding cattle, California,1960s, (COLOR)

176.jpg - Cattle herd on small hillside ranch, California, 1960s, (COLOR)

177.jpg - In Spring, a cattle herd from the central valley, California near Sloughouse,
crosses the American River to high country pasture, Placerville, 1959, Neg.# 973-1

178.jpg - Cowboys sleep on range in tents on roundup nights. Arizona, 1965,
Neg.# 2253-14

179.jpg - Cowboy carrying sick calf during roundup, Arizona, 1965, Neg.# 2253-4-29

180.jpg - Evening poker game on range in line shack, roundup, Arizona, 1965,
Neg. # 2253-2-34

181.jpg - Harking back to days of the old West, cattle ranching, in today's farming is an
example of continuity amidst change. Herding strays, California, 1957, Neg. # 973-4

182.jpg - Saddling at dawn on roundup, 3-V Ranch, Seligman, Arizona 1965,(COLOR)
Amidst burgeoning technological farm advances, working the roundup is still by the
code and methods established when cattle and men first came to the open range.

183.jpg - Brood cows, best heifers and selected bulls are moved back
to winter range after roundup to produce next season's calves. Arizona 1965, Neg.# 2171-1

184.jpg - Cowboys work hard, but they play hard too, at rodeos and events like this,
"World Championship Chariot Race", Pocatello, Idaho, 1966 (COLOR)

184a.jpg - Clinging to rear of "Chariot" with remote switch for front-mounted,
motorized camera, while hidden behind driver, Joe Munroe shoots reverse angle of mock race,
Idaho,1966, Neg.# 2263-23 (photographer unknown)  

For more on farming and rural life, refer to Munroe's PBS video program,
"Once Upon A Time On The Farm". Also, see his picture book,
"CHANGING FACES ON OUR LAND - Once Upon A Time On The Farm", text
by Dr.Kirby Moulton, published 1990 by Meredith Corp., Des Moines, IA 50336.



2) Cities, Industry, Science (TOP)
 

185.jpg - Kennecott open pit copper mine, Utah, 1974, Neg. series # 2413

186.jpg - Laser drill guide, tunnelling for BART transit system,San Fran., 1960s, (COLOR)

187.jpg - Golden Gate Bridge, fisheye lens, California, 1963, Neg.# 2138-1-31

188.jpg - Golden Gate Bridge, fisheye lens, California, 1963, (COLOR)

189.jpg - San Francisco/Oakland Bay Bridge traffic jam, California, 1972,
Neg.# 2360-1-10

190.jpg - Paying toll, San Fran./Oaklnd Bay Bridge, California, 1959,
Neg. #1065-7-8

191.jpg Paying toll, San Fran./Oaklnd Bay Bridge, California 1959,
Neg. series #1065

192.jpg - Paying toll, San Fran./Oaklnd Bay Bridge, California, 1959,
Neg. series #1065

193.jpg - Paying toll, San Fran./Oaklnd Bay Bridge, California, 1959,
Neg. series #1065

194.jpg - Paying toll, San Fran./Oaklnd Bay Bridge, California, 1959,
Neg. series #1065

195.jpg - Paying toll, San Fran./Oaklnd Bay Bridge, California, 1959,
Neg. series #1065

195a.jpg - Paying toll, San Fran./Oaklnd Bay Bridge,California 1959,
Neg. series #1065

196.jpg - Chevron Oil refinery construction, Isomax tower, California, 1965,
Neg. # 2232-7-30

197.jpg - Golden Gate Park in San Francisco,, fisheye lens (COLOR)

198.jpg - Earth moving, California, 1964, Neg.# 2210-3-10

199.jpg - For LIFE, 21 students crammed in phone booth, St. Mary's College,
Moraga, California, 1959, Neg.# 2378

200.jpg - City garbage dump, w/gulls, California, 1958, Neg. series #1020

201.jpg - In experimental lab., fibrous material from soybeans,Worthington,
Ohio, 1967, (COLOR) (see also pic #066ab)

202.jpg - Unloading crude oil, Port of Rotterdam, 1968, (COLOR)

202ab.jpg - Chicago Board of Trade, 1949, COLOR and b&w neg. # 714-15

203.jpg - Mass housing, near San Jose, California, 1961, Neg. # 2063-8-33

203a.jpg - Backside of early computerized "map" of city water use, Phoenix,
Arizona, 1965, Neg. # 2230-5-27

203b.jpg - Residence construction, Lorain, Ohio, 1953, Neg. (USIA - see Munroe)

204.jpg - Oil tank car train crosses snowy desert, Utah, 1974, Neg.# 2375-4-12A

205.jpg - Mormon Temple, Salt Lake City,Utah, 1974, (COLOR)

205a.jpg - Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Salt Lake City,Utah, 1974, Neg.# 2413-399-12

206.jpg - University of Nevada, science experiment, fetus outside monkey,
1970s, Neg.# 2384-4-8

207.jpg - Making and packaging corn flakes, Battle Creek, Michigan, 1970 (COLOR)

208.jpg - Making ice cream bars, West Allis, Wisconsin, 1970 (COLOR)

209.jpg - Nuclear fusion experiment,Los Alamos,N.M., 1974, Neg.# 2416-13-15

209a.jpg - Shiprock, New Mexico, nearby trailer-town dwarfed by giant namesake boulder
jutting out of the desert. 1974, Neg.series # 2416

210.jpg - Oil drilling, near Midland/Odessa, Texas, 1974, Neg. series # 2374

210a.jpg Auto mufflers stacked at manufacturing plant, Racine, Wisconsin, 1950s

211.jpg - Kids playing in rock formations, Valley Of Fire, Nevada, 1965,(COLOR)

212.jpg - Readying U.S. weather balloon on Chi Chi Jima, an island south of Japan,
1969, (COLOR)

213.jpg - Launching U.S. weather balloon on Chi Chi Jima, an island south of Japan,
1969, (COLOR)
 

3) Places, Nature, Adventure, Environment (TOP)

 

214.jpg - Jumping snowmobile, Yellowstone National Park, 1967. (COLOR)

215.jpg - Church in Penitentes area of New Mexico,1974, Neg. series # 2226,

216.jpg - Parker Grove, Sequoia National Park, California, 1968, (COLOR)

217.jpg - Redwood National Park area, Howland Hill Rd., 1968, California,
(COLOR)

218.jpg - Sunflare in redwood, Redwoods National Park, near
Headwaters Grove, California,1967, Neg. # 2036-3-1

219.jpg - Sunflare in redwoods, Redwoods National Park, Headwaters Grove,
California, 1967, (COLOR)

220.jpg - Child in Redwoods National Park, Stout Grove, California,1973,
Neg.series # 2400-7

221.jpg - Image Lake, Cascades National Park, Washington, 1967 (COLOR)

222.jpg - Aircraft on Trapper Lake, Cascades National Park, Washington, 1967
(COLOR)

223.jpg - Horse pack trip, Cascades National Park, Washington, 1967, (COLOR)

224.jpg - Trinity Site, First atomic explosion, New Mexico, 1974,b&w,
Neg. series # 2416

225.jpg - Trinity Site, First atomic explosion, New Mexico, 1974, (COLOR)

226.jpg - Signals from outer space? California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA.
radio telescopes, at Bishop, California, 1960, (COLOR)

227.jpg - White Sands National Monument, New Mexico, 1974, Neg.# 2416-2-6

228.jpg - Piece of worn fencepost on Nevada rangeland, 1960's, (COLOR)

229.jpg - Wild horses, Nevada desert, 1965, Neg. series # 2236

230.jpg - Rafting through a rapid on Middle Fork, Salmon River, Idaho, 1974
(COLOR)

231.jpg - Rafting rapid on Middle Fork, Salmon River, Idaho, 1974,
fisheye lens, (COLOR)

232.jpg - Climbing walls, Matkatameba Canyon, Grand Canyon, Arizona,
1970, Neg.# 2348-5-36

233.jpg - Homemade wooden dory careens against rock wall in rapid,
Grand Canyon, Arizona, 1971 (COLOR)

234.jpg - View of Grand Canyon from river level, Arizona, 1974, (COLOR)

235.jpg - Redwall Cavern on the river, Grand Canyon, Arizona, 1970,(COLOR)

236.jpg - Geology team explores lower Grand Canyon, Arizona, 1965,
Neg. series # 2199

237.jpg - World's oldest rocks, Vishnu schist, river level, Grand Canyon, Arizona,
1970, (COLOR)

238.jpg - Colorado River in Grand Canyon from Toroweap Overlook, Arizona,
1970s,(COLOR)

239.jpg - Grand Canyon from Imperial Point, N.Rim, Arizona, 1986, (COLOR)

240.jpg - Rock walls around Lake Powell, Arizona, 1970s,(COLOR)

241.jpg - Small power boat in side-canyon cavern, Lake Powell, Arizona 1970s,
(COLOR)

242.jpg - Lonesome highway #50 across Nevada, 1974, Neg. series #2424

243.jpg - Hearst Castle from the coastal highway, San Simeon, California,
1974, Neg.#2400-16-28

244.jpg - Death Valley, from Zabriske Point, 1974, California, Neg. series # 2400

245.jpg - South of Japan on the island of Iwo Jima in the Pacific Ocean,
skeletal remains of Japanese soldiers from WWII's great battle, still could be
found in earthen tunnels, 1969, (COLOR)

246.jpg - Deer crossing stream, Michigan, 1947, Neg. series#570
 

4) People (TOP)
 

247.jpg - David Brower, standing in Sierra Club office, San Francisco, California,1968,
Neg.# 2310-1-3

248.jpg - David Brower, at desk in Sierra Club office, San Francisco, California, 1968,
Neg. series #2310

249.jpg - David Brower (1912-2000) was internationally known for well
over 40 years, while with the Sierra Club and Earth Island Institute, for speaking, writing,
book publishing, and political activism on environmental protection. Using renowned writers
and photographers, he produced a series of famous Exhibit Format picture books on rivers,
forests, deserts, Grand Canyon and other wonders. A fine outdoorsman, he taught ski troops
in Italy in WWII. Since his teens he also was an ebullient amateur pianist. Here, at his desk
in his home office in Berkeley,CA., in 1997, at age 86, he still practiced on an electronic
keyboard. He recorded, with Paul Winter, music portions for his last film appearance,
LET THE MOUNTAINS TALK, produced by Joe Munroe and Roy Cox about the magic of
the natural world. Neg.# 2490-24

250.jpg - Harry Bertoia, metal sculptor, printmaker, jewelry designer, Cranbrook
Academy of Art, Michigan, 1943. Neg. # - (see Munroe)

251.jpg - Charles Eames, designer, teacher, filmmaker, photographs Japanese
model/designer (Noguchi ?), Venice, California, 1950 (COLOR)

252.jpg - Charles Eames, designer, teacher, filmmaker, and visitors in his home,
Venice, California,1950 (COLOR)

253.jpg - Guest speakers, Lowell Thomas, Herbert Hoover, dozing at graduation,
ceremonies, Ohio Wesleyan Univ., Delaware, Ohio, 1947, Neg.#2401-1-2

254.jpg - Henry Beetle Hough, noted newspaper editor, THE VINEYARD GAZETTE,
Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, MA, 1954, Neg. series # 911

255.jpg - Jose Ferrer, in the play, "Edwin Booth," San Francisco, California,
1958, Neg.1046-1-29

256.jpg - Novelist, Eugene Burdick, author, "The Ugly American",
Berkeley, California, 1964, Neg.# 2179-12-7a

257.jpg - Physicist, Richard Feynman, California Institute of Technolgy, Pasadena, CA.
1959, Neg.# 1066-22-12

258.jpg - Physicist and teacher, Richard Feynman, California Institute of Technology,
Pasadena, CA. 1959, (COLOR)

259.jpg - Biologist, Linus Pauling, California Institute of Technolgy,
Pasadena, CA. 1959, (COLOR)

260.jpg - Joe Munroe, photographed by John Blaustein, California, 1976,
Neg. series 2420

261.jpg - Joe Munroe, exhibit layout, photographed by Virginia Munroe,
California, Neg. # 2458-1-19A

262.jpg - Joe and Virginia Munroe, totem pole, Juneau, Alaska, 1994,
photographer unknown, (COLOR)

263.jpg - Joe Munroe photographing at Arches National Monument,
Utah, 1974, by Virginia Munroe. (Note: No # 264)

265.jpg - Mr.and Mrs. Len Cole, low-income, aged farmers, grossed 1500.00 per year
on their 90 acre farm near Bell Oak, Michigan, 1947. Leonard had been run over
by a field mower. They sold the farm 2 years later. Neg. # 523-37

266.jpg - Mrs. Len Cole, low-income, aged farm wife, Michigan 1947, Neg.# 523-13

267.jpg - President Nixon and some cabinet and/or advisors with Munroe's loving
pigs poster, Neg. series 2464 (U.S.D.A. photo, photographer unknown.)

268.jpg - Newlywed farmers,75 acres, cotton and dairy, Dot and Roy Rowland,
read Bible in bed, Vanatta, Tennessee, 1952, Neg. series 2197

269.jpg - Newlywed farmers, Dot and Roy Rowland, play in cotton storage after harvesting.
Their axiom: "Faith, Hard Work and Each Other," Tennessee, 1952, Neg. series 2197

270.jpg - Russian symphony conductor, Ivanov, San Francisco California, 1960s

271.jpg - Vera, negro housemaid, walks household dog, Detroit, 1940, Neg. series 112

272.jpg - Vera, negro housemaid, closeup face, Detroit, 1940, Neg. series # 112

273.jpg - Portrait of an adolescent, William Corcoran, Michigan, 1939, Neg. # 75

274.jpg - Photographer, Harry Callahan, Chicago,1946, Neg. 496-1

274a.jpg - Photographer, Harry Callahan, Chicago,1951, Neg.# 807

275.jpg - James Jepson,1947, legally blind at 93, first president of the Hurricane
Canal Co, Hurricane, Utah. This farmer's imagination led to the project that sluiced Virgin
River water eight miles from Zion National Park to the arid terrain of the Hurricane Bench
in southern Utah. The rough-hewn water system took ten years to build using trestles
over gorges and tunneling through the mountains, transforming 2,000 acres of desert into
fertile farmland. Neg. series # 571-149

276.jpg - Noted San Francisco store owner, Richard Gump, 1957, Neg. series # 975-21

277.jpg - Small town resident in winter, Michigan, 1941, Neg. series # 183

278.jpg - U.S. Forest Service trail boss, Bob Hardy, Bridger Wilderness Area,
Pinedale, Wyoming, 1954, Neg. series # 905

279.jpg - Old lady, Mrs. Osta Weff, living on Chi Chi Jima, an island south of Japan, 1969, (COLOR)

280.jpg - Mr. & Mrs.Roswell Garst, and Mr. & Mrs. Nikita Khrushchev
at Garst farm, Iowa, 1959, Neg. series # 1090

281.jpg - Roswell Garst and Nikita Khrushchev on Garst farm visit, Iowa, 1959,
Neg.# 1090-C-15-33

282.jpg - Roswell Garst, Nikita Khrushchev and Adlai Stevenson lunching at Garst farm,
Iowa, 1959, Neg.#1090-C-13-20

283.jpg - Roswell Garst, Nikita Khrushchev and Adlai Stevenson have hearty laugh
at lunch, Iowa, 1959, Neg. series # 1099

284.jpg - Roswell Garst family in farm living room after Khrushchev visit,
Iowa, 1959 Neg. series 1099

285.jpg - Mary Garst inspecting cattle feed, 1980, Iowa, (COLOR)

286.jpg - Louis Bromfield and Roswell Garst, famous Iowa farmer, lunch,
Malabar Farm, Ohio, 1954. Neg. series # 919 (Also pics #s 145/158)

287.jpg - Multiple exposure, Jack Beers, Texas, 1945, Neg. series # 396

288.jpg - Multiple exposure, Margaret Wall, Michigan, 1943, Neg. series# 357

289.jpg - Jazz pianist, Ralph Sutton, Squaw Valley, California, 1960, Neg.# 2008-14-29

290.jpg - Patron at Grammer's Bar & Grill, Cincinatti, Ohio, 1948, Neg. series 662

291.jpg - Georgia O'Keefe, Abiquiu, New Mexico, 1974. By this time O'Keefe had
given up painting and was trying hand-molded ceramic pottery. Neg. # 2416-10-32

292.jpg - Georgia O'Keefe, laughing, Abiquiu, New Mexico, 1974, Neg. # 2416-10-10

293.jpg - Georgia O'Keefe, Abiquiu, New Mexico,1974, (COLOR)
By this time O'Keefe had given up painting and was trying hand-molded ceramic pottery.

294.jpg - Frank Lloyd Wright, Taliesen, Wisconsin, 1947 (COLOR)

295.jpg - Frank Lloyd Wright, apprentice instructions, Wisconsin, 1947, Neg. #487-2

295a.jpg - Frank Lloyd Wright, portrait, Wisconsin, 1942, Neg. #347-2,
(Portrait reproduction release available.)

296.jpg - Photographer, Ansel Adams, Carmel, California 1974, Neg.#2400-12-24
Background is mural print of his famed image, "Moonrise, Hernandez."

297.jpg - Photographer, Ansel Adams, Carmel, California, 1974, Neg. # 2400-12-16

298.jpg - Ansel Adams, conducting seminar, Michigan, 1941, Neg. series # 220

299.jpg - Kidnap-rapist, Caryl Chessman, on Death Row, San Quentin prison,
California 1960. Chessman fought for twelve years, but lost his legal fight against his
execution in the gas chamber. Neg. series # 2196.

300.jpg - Kidnap-rapist, Caryl Chessman, on Death Row, San Quentin prison,
California 1960. Chessman fought for twelve years, but lost his legal fight against his
execution in the gas chamber. Neg. # 2196-C-6-21

301.jpg - Kidnap-rapist, Caryl Chessman, on Death Row, San Quentin prison,
California 1960. Chessman fought for twelve years, but lost his legal fight against his
execution in the gas chamber. Neg. series # 2196.

302.jpg - Kidnap-rapist, Caryl Chessman, on Death Row, San Quentin prison,
California 1960. Chessman fought for twelve years, but lost his legal fight against his
execution in the gas chamber. Neg.# 2196-C-4-13

303.jpg - Anti-Vietnam-war activist, Mario Savio, Berkeley, California , 1960s,
Neg. series # 2379

304.jpg - French President, Charles DeGaulle, Palo Alto. California visit,
1960s/70s, Neg.#2382-2-19

305.jpg - Lyndon Johnson, campaigning for Presidency, Sacramento California, 1964,
(COLOR)

306.jpg - Lyndon Johnson, campaigning for Presidency, Sacramento, CA.,
1964,(COLOR)

307.jpg - Lyndon Johnson, campaigning for Presidency, Sacramento,CA. CA.
1964 (COLOR)

308.jpg - Eugene McCarthy, Presidential Democratic candidate, campaigning
California, 1968, Neg.# 2325-C-3-27

309.jpg - Eugene McCarthy, Presidential Democratic candidate, speaking at
Berkeley, California, 1968, Neg.2325-C-2-12a

310.jpg - U.S. Congressman, Democrat, George Miller, California, 1980's
(COLOR)

311.jpg - Joe Munroe directing photography subjects, photographed
by Robert Kurt, Missouri, 1962

312.jpg - Joe Munroe shooting from top of fence, photographed by Grant Cannon,
1949, Ohio, Neg. series# 716

313.jpg - Joe Munroe photographing steer, photograph, Robert Kurt, Missouri, 1962

5) Art & Architecture (TOP)
 

313a.jpg - During shooting of Munroe's cinema class jazz project.(above)

314.jpg - Peacock feathers, Iowa, 1970s, (COLOR)

315.jpg - Painter, Peter Hurd, San Patricio, New Mexico, 1974
Hurd was commissioned by President Lyndon Johnson to paint an official portrait.
Johnson didn't like the result and ordered it destroyed. (COLOR)

316.jpg - Cranbrook Academy of Art studio of Swedish resident sculptor,
Carl Milles, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, 1942. In-process plaster and clay
figures symbolizing family meeting in Heaven. Neg. 403-1

317.jpg - Carl Milles, Swedish resident sculptor, Cranbrook Academy of Art,
Bloomfield Hills, Michigan,1942. Milles was noted sculptor with major works in
St. Louis, Detroit, Europe and worldwide. (see also # 336), Neg. series # 403

318.jpg - Painter, Georgia O'Keefe, laughing, Abiquiu, New Mexico, 1974,
Neg. # 2416-10-10

319.jpg - Painter, Georgia O'Keefe, Abiquiu, New Mexico, 1974.
At the time this image was made, O'Keefe had retired from painting and was
experimenting with hand-worked ceramic pottery. 1974, Neg. # 2416-10-32

320.jpg - Student weavers at Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills,
Michigan, 1942. Neg.# - (see Munroe)

320a.jpg - Visual experiment, Kenyon College, 1950, Gambier, Ohio,
Neg. # 767-35

320b.jpg - Visual experimemt Kenyon College church, 1950, Gambier, Ohio,
Neg. # 767-34

320c.jpg - Visual experiment, Kenyon College bldg., 1950, Gambier, Ohio, Neg.# 767-37

321.jpg - Architect, Frank Lloyd Wright (seated), w/ apprentices in drafting studio,
Taliesen, Wisconsin,1947, Neg. # 487-15

322.jpg - Letter to Joe Munroe from Frank Lloyd.Wright, 1942

323.jpg - Architect, Frank Lloyd Wright, Carl Wall house, Plymouth,
Michigan,1942, Neg. series # 343

324.jpg - Architect, Frank Lloyd Wright, Carl Wall house, window, Plymouth,
Michigan, 1942, Neg. series #343

325.jpg - Architect, Frank Lloyd Wright, Carl Wall house, window, Plymouth,
Michigan, 1942, Neg. series #343

326.jpg - Architect, Frank Lloyd Wright, Carl Wall house, ceiling detail,
Plymouth, Michigan, 1942, Neg. Series # 343

327.jpg - Architect, Frank Lloyd Wright, Gregor Affleck house, exterior,
Birmingham, Michigan,1942, Neg. series #342

328.jpg - Architect, Frank Lloyd Wright, Gregor Affleck house, interior,
Birmingham, Michigan,1942, Neg. series #342

328ab.jpg - Mr.and Mrs. Berger building their own house designed by F.L.Wright,
Marin County, California, 1975, Neg. series #2401-3 and 4


The artform known as "monotype" is created by the artist applying oil paint
or ink with rollers, brushes or other tools to a plastic or metal plate.
The plate is then covered with moist archival paper, canvas or silk and rolled
through a high-compression press. The color transfers from plate to paper
and permeates the paper fibres under great pressure . The resulting image
takes on a luminous quality impossible to obtain if the color were simply
applied directly to the paper. A group of five San Francisco area women,
working individually, get together once a week sharing a large press.
They are The Blue Bay Press, and exhibit annually in California venues.
Following are a few selections from Munroe's archive on this subject.



329.jpg - Blue Bay Press, monotype art group, California, 1994, (COLOR)

330.jpg - Blue Bay Press, monotype art, California, 1994, Neg. series #2485

331.jpg - Blue Bay Press, monotype, California, 1994, Virginia Munroe, Maj Britt Hillstrom,
Neg.series#2485

332.jpg - Blue Bay Press, monotype, California, 1994, Joyce Blegen at press,
Neg. series # 2485

333.jpg - Blue Bay Press, monotype art, California, 1994, Joan Finton,
Neg. series # 2485

334.jpg - Blue Bay Press, monotype art, California, 1994, Joan Finton,
Neg. series # 2485

335.jpg - Blue Bay Press, monotype art, California, 1994, Virginia Munroe,
Neg. series # 2485

336.jpg - Blue Bay Press, monotype art, California, 1994, Maj Britt Hillstrom
Neg. series # 2485

337.jpg - Blue Bay Press, monotype art, California, 1994, Maj Britt Hillstrom, Neg. series #2485

337a.jpg- Diptych monotype, "LOVING THE SPIN I'M IN"
52"x41" by Virginia Munroe, - COLOR

338.jpg - Cranbrook Art Academy, Michigan, 1942. Landscape fountain sculpture
group by Resident Sculptor, Carl Milles, (see also pic # 317)

339.jpg - Zoltan Sepeshy, Director of Painting, Cranbrook Art Academy, Michigan, 1942

340.jpg - Pottery by Maija Grotell, Director of Ceramics, Cranbrook Art Academy,
Michigan, 1942

341.jpg - Ms. Jill Mitchell, instructor in painting, Cranbrook Art Academy, Michigan, 1942

342.jpg - Eliel Saarinen, Director, Cranbrook Art Academy, Michigan, 1942,at
honorary party. Eliel was father and grandfather of two other well-known Saarinen architects.


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6) Computer Setting and Resolution Notes (TOP)

Still photographs from Munroe's archives of sixty thousand still images.
Average dpi/image on this cdrom is 100, intended only for initial picture selection.
Images and Index set up on p.c. Internet Explorer with 19in. monitor
set at 1024x768. (Setting of 800x600 requires modest scrolling.)

For VHS or DVD of the complete PBS films, high-res. electronic images of stills,
photographic repro prints, or fine art collection prints, please contact Munroe.

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