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. Boys on Mott Street on Sunday
New York, New York. Statue of Garibaldi on Washington Square
New York, New York. Newsstand on Fourth Avenue at Fourteenth Street which sells foreign language newspapers
Corona, Long Island, New York. Raymond Fazio family at supper. Defense worker Jerry, the daughter, has just gotten home
New York, New York. Class in Public School Eight on King Street, discussing a book entitled "We love America," brought to school by one of the pupils
New York, New York. Air raid wardens having a meeting at sector headquarters on Waverly Place. The two men in the center on the couch are Italian-American
New York, New York. Pupil at Public School Eight
New York, New York. Pupil at Public School Eight
New York, New York. Mourners at the funeral of Carlo Tresca, the Italian anarchist publisher of Il Martello, who was murdered on Fifth Avenue. The funeral was held in Manhattan Center and was attended by over 5000 anti-facists
New York, New York. Mourners at the funeral of Carlo Tresca, the Italian anarchist publisher of Il Martello, who was murdered on Fifth Avenue. The funeral was held in Manhattan Center and was attended by over 5000 anti-facists
New York, New York. Mourners at the funeral of Carlo Tresca, the Italian anarchist publisher of Il Martello, who was murdered on Fifth Avenue. The funeral was held in Manhattan Center and was attended by over 5000 anti-facists
New York, New York. Italian surgeon bandaging a patient's arm
New York, New York. Italian and Jewish customers in the First Avenue market at Tenth Street
New York, New York. Italian violinist
New York, New York. Italian meat stall in the First Avenue market at Tenth Street
New York, New York. Fish merchant in the First Avenue market at Tenth Street
New York, New York. Italian grocer in the First Avenue market at Tenth Street
New York, New York. Italian-American children warming their hands outside a fruit store at First Avenue and Tenth Street
Carlisle, Pennsylvania. U.S. Army medical field service school. This doctor was taken from civilian life; is now a captain in the Army, taking a five-week course in how the Army works before going into active service
Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Demonstration before Army doctors and officer candidates at the U.S. Army medical field service school. Placing a "wounded" man on a litter
Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Demonstration before Army doctors and officer candidates at the U.S. Army medical field service school. Placing a "wounded" man on a litter
Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Demonstration before Army doctors and officer candidates at the U.S. Army medical field service school. Army doctors who are taking a five-week course watching the demonstration in weather ten degrees below zero
Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Demonstration before Army doctors and officer candidates at the U.S. Army medical field service school. Army doctors who are taking a five-week course watching the demonstration in weather ten degrees below zero
