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
Washington, D.C. Scrap salvage campaign, Victory Program. Loading scrap paper into a hydraulic press at a retail junk dealer's yard
Washington, D.C. Scrap salvage campaign, Victory Program. Stacking bales of pressed paper in a retail junkyard
Washington, D.C. Scrap salvage campaign, Victory Program. Stacking bales of pressed paper in a retail junkyard
Schoolboys go voluntarily from house to house collecting scrap paper in connection with the campaign in the District schools. Washington, D.C.
Schoolboys go voluntarily from house to house collecting scrap paper in connection with the campaign in the District schools. Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C. Scrap salvage campaign, Victory Program. Tying up bundles of scrap paper at public school. A company truck collects once a week from each school in a truck
Washington, D.C. Scrap salvage campaign, Victory Program. Washington schoolchild brings a load of scrap paper to school once a week. Here it is collected by paper company truck
Washington, D.C. Scrap salvage campaign, Victory Program. Washington schoolchild brings a load of scrap paper to school once a week. Here it is collected by paper company truck
Washington, D.C. Scrap salvage campaign, Victory Program. Washington schoolchildren fold cartons so that they will pack flat and can be tied in bundles which are collected by paper company truck once a week
Washington, D.C. Scrap salvage campaign, Victory Program. Schoolchildren bring their scrap paper from their classrooms into the cellar, where it is picked up by paper company truck
Washington, D.C. Scrap salvage campaign, Victory Program. Schoolchildren bring their scrap paper from their classrooms into the cellar, where it is picked up by paper company truck
Washington, D.C. Scrap salvage campaign, Victory Program. Washington schoolchildren also collect string to tie their bundles of scrap paper. In the meantime they studied the history and manufacture of string
Washington, D.C. Scrap salvage campaign, Victory Program. Schoolchildren contributing to their class pile of scrap paper. Classes compete for greatest amount
Washington, D.C. Scrap salvage campaign, Victory Program. Children bringing their weekly contribution of scrap paper to school
Washington, D.C. Scrap salvage campaign, Victory Program. Children bringing their weekly contribution of scrap paper to school
Washington, D.C. Scrap salvage campaign, Victory Program. Children bringing their weekly contribution of scrap paper to school
Washington, D.C. Scrap salvage campaign, Victory Program. Children bringing their weekly contribution of scrap paper to school
Washington, D.C. Scrap salvage campaign, Victory Program. Children bringing their weekly contribution of scrap paper to school
Washington, D.C. Scrap salvage campaign, Victory Program. Children bringing their weekly contribution of scrap paper to school
Washington, D.C. Scrap salvage campaign, Victory Program. This contributor has found himself a newsboy's bag which seems to amuse the school traffic monitor
Applicant receives her sugar rationing card. Washington, D.C.
Applicants for sugar rationing cards. Adams School, Washington, D.C.
Applicants for sugar rationing cards. Adams School, Washington, D.C.
