Marjory Collins - FSA/OWI Jan 1942 - June 1943

The photographs in the Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection form an extensive pictorial record of American life between 1935 and 1944. Photographer Marjory Collins was hired by the Office of War Information to photograph American life and support of the war effort. Across some 50 assignments, Ms. Collins captured iconic images of workers, families, and children all along the eastern part of the U.S. Her photos span January 1942 - June 1943 In 1944 Collins worked freelance for a construction company in Alaska before travelling to Africa and Europe on government and commercial assignments. Thereafter she worked mainly as an editor and a writer covering civil rights, the Vietnam War and women's movements. In the 1960s she edited American Journal of Public Health.[1] In the 1980s she moved to San Francisco where she obtained an M.A. in American Studies at Antioch College West. She died in 1985 at the age of 73.[1]

Arlington, Virginia. FSA (Farm Security Administration) trailer camp project Interior of expansible trailer, showing kitchen equipment

Arlington, Virginia. FSA (Farm Security Administration) trailer camp project Interior of expansible trailer, showing kitchen equipment

Arlington, Virginia. FSA (Farm Security Administration) trailer camp project Children playing marbles outside the community building

Arlington, Virginia. FSA (Farm Security Administration) trailer camp project Children playing marbles outside the community building

Arlington, Virginia. FSA (Farm Security Administration) trailer camp project Interior of an expansible trailer, showing one wing used as a dining and living room

Arlington, Virginia. FSA (Farm Security Administration) trailer camp project Interior of an expansible trailer, showing one wing used as a dining and living room

Arlington, Virginia. FSA (Farm Security Administration) trailer camp project Interior of an expansible trailer, showing one wing used as a bedroom

Arlington, Virginia. FSA (Farm Security Administration) trailer camp project Interior of an expansible trailer, showing one wing used as a bedroom

Arlington, Virginia. FSA (Farm Security Administration) trailer camp project Exterior of an expansible trailer

Arlington, Virginia. FSA (Farm Security Administration) trailer camp project Exterior of an expansible trailer

Arlington, Virginia. FSA (Farm Security Administration) trailer camp project Hanging out clothes which have been washed in the laundry of the community building

Arlington, Virginia. FSA (Farm Security Administration) trailer camp project Hanging out clothes which have been washed in the laundry of the community building

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Marjory Collins - FSA/OWI Jan 1942 - June 1943