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Title	James Jepson photograph
Subject	Joe Munroe Farm life Irrigation, Hurricane (Utah) Farming
Time Period	1940s
Place	Utah
Description	James Jepson, photographed here by Joe Munroe at the age of 93, was part of a duo that helped to create the Hurricane Canal Company, which raised the funds to create an irrigation canal in Utah. The goal was to help bring water to the land and make it usable for farmers. The canal took ten years to complete and serviced 2,000 acres of land, running an eight-mile span across ravines and through mountains. 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.
Creator	Joe Munroe
Date of Original	1947
Collection	Joe Munroe Archive
Source	P400
Format	Picture; Photographic Print
Extent	20.9 x 26.1 cm
Submitting Institution	Ohio Historical Society
Rights	Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
File Name	P400_B04_F16_003.tif
Image Height	6171
Image Width	4929
File Size	91264872 Bytes