Collection: 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]
831 photos
Greenbelt, Maryland. Member of the Greenbelt baseball team picking out a bat. On Sunday the team plays that of a neighboring town
Greenbelt, Maryland. Handball courts behind the swimming pool
Greenbelt, Maryland. Residents working in their garden plot
Greenbelt, Maryland. Sailor jitterbugging at the senior prom
Greenbelt, Maryland. Family strolling on Sunday
Greenbelt, Maryland. Child's bedroom in a house in which a thirteen year-old boy has rigged up model trains and a chemical laboratory
Washington, D.C. Mr. Lund, who is the head of the District Red Cross, at his desk in the District chapter house
Washington, D.C. The District Red Cross gives training to taxi drivers in using their cabs as emergency ambulances. Here they are practicing carrying a victim in and out of a cab on one of the new army stretchers
Washington, D.C. Mr. Lund, who is the head of District Red Cross, visits Children's Hospital, where General MacArthur's niece is a nurse's aid
Washington, D.C. Mr. Lund, who is the head of the District Red Cross, watching a volunteer blood donor give her blood at the Washington blood donor center
Washington, D.C. Mr. Lund, who is head of the District Red Cross, dropped in at the District chapter house, where a Norwegian unit of the Red Cross was wrapping bandages
Washington, D.C. Mr. Lund, who is head of the District Red Cross, watching the testing of blood plasma at the District blood donor center
Washington D.C. Mr. Lund, who is the head of the District Red Cross, dropped in at the District chapter house where a Norwegian unit of the Red Cross was wrapping bandages
Washington, D.C. A group of student nurses who recently were admitted to the Red Cross reserve corps at a ceremony in the Pan American Union building
Washington, D.C. First aid class held daily by the Red Cross aboard a Potomac riverboat which carries workers to Port Washington every morning. They are civilian employees of the U.S. Army adjutant general's office
Washington, D.C. Applying pressure to pressure point as part of a course in first aid, aboard a Potomac River boat
Washington, D.C. Applying a splint to a "broken" leg as part of a course in first aid, aboard a Potomac River boat
Washington, D.C. Bandaging an "injured" arm as part of a course in first aid, aboard a Potomac River boat
Washington, D.C. Mary Anderson, head of the Women's Bureau of the U.S. Department of Labor, at her desk
Washington, D.C. Interior of a new Red Cross mobile canteen
Washington, D.C. Interior of a new Red Cross mobile canteen
Washington, D.C. Stack of untranslated messages in the middle of the table at the Red Cross Foreign Inquiry Service
Washington, D.C. The Icelandic legation. Margret, Mr. Thors, and Mrs. Thors in their living room
