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
New York, New York. Third Avenue elevated railway at 17th Street
New York, New York. Irish-American policeman in Central Park on Sunday
New York, New York. 94th Street. Station of the Third Avenue elevated railway at 8 a.m.
New York, New York. Irish-American policeman in Central Park on Sunday
New York, New York. The 76th Street station of the Third Avenue elevated railway at 8 a.m.
New York, New York. Signaller on the track of the Third Avenue elevated railway near 14th Street in the early morning
New York, New York. Bicycling in Central Park on Sunday
New York, New York. 94th Street station of the Third Avenue elevated railway at 8 a.m.
New York, New York. Children in Central Park on Sunday
New York, New York. Sunday photographer at the mall fountain in Central Park
New York, New York. Policeman obliges three Sunday stroller in Central Park by taking their photographs
New York, New York. Mall fountain in Central Park on Sunday
New York, New York. Irish-American policeman in Central Park
New York, New York. Wire room of the New York newspaper. Copy boy about to tear off dispatch from Associated Press wire
Photo engraving department of the New York Times newspaper. Developing a zinc plate
New York, New York. Photo engraving department of the New York Times newspaper. Routing a cut
New York, New York. Library of the New York Times newspaper. Editors and writers can look up every conceivable subject and get information not available in the "morgue"
New York, New York. "Morgue" of the New York Times newspaper. Tommy Bracken, head of the Morgue, who has been with the paper fifty-one years and is its oldest employee, looking up something for an editor or writer who has phoned in for information
New York, New York. "Morgue" of the New York Times newspaper. Clippings on every conceivable subject are filed here for a reference. Editors and writers phone in for information. In center background is a photograph of Adolph Ochs, founder of the paper
New York, New York. Photographic department of the New York Times newspaper. One of eight staff photographers returns to staff room after assignment. Over door is eulogy of new camera. At left are maps of the city and region for photographers' reference
New York, New York. Pressroom of the New York Times newspaper. After casting, plates are shaved of unessential metal, and cooled in water in shaver
New York, New York. Drama department of the New York Times newspaper. Brooks Atkinson, drama critic, longhanding the review of a new play
New York, New York. Photo engraving department of the New York Times newspaper. Examining the dots on the screen of a strip negative in the darkroom before it is transferred to a zinc plate
