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
Oswego, New York. Citizen working on Sunday morning in his victory garden
Oswego, New York. Unloading bauxite from a barge onto a Canadian boat which has come up through the inland waterways from Dutch Guiana
Oswego, New York. Sunday fishermen on the Oewego River opposite the bauxite docks
Oswego, New York. A street
Oswego, New York. Factories on the Oswego River
Oswego, New York. Boys recruited to work on the farms during the summer waiting to be picked up by the farmers at 7:30 a.m.
Oswego, New York. Boys recruited to work on the farms during the summer waiting to be picked up by the farmers at 7:30 a.m.
Oswego, New York. A cannon in front of City Hall
Oswego, New York. Children recruited for farm work during the summer waiting to start for work outside the U.S. Employment Service
Oswego, New York. Children, recruited for farm work, waiting outside the U.S. Employment Service to start work for the summer
Oswego, New York. Children, recruited for farm work during the summer, waiting to start for work outside the U.S. Employment Service
Oswego, New York. Children, recruited for farm work during the summer, waiting to start for work outside the U.S. Employment Service
Oswego, New York. View across the Oswego River opposite the bauxite docks
Oswego, New York. Children playing on a bronze elk in front of the Elk's Club
Oswego, New York. Factory workers going home at 4 p.m.
Bizerte, Tunisia. American troops bathing on the beach after tha Allied victory
Tunis, Tunisia. General Mast arriving at the Tunis airport to assume his duties as the new resident general of Tunisia. He is still recuperating from injuries received in a plane crash
Tunis, Tunisia. General Mast arriving at the residence in Tunis to assume the office of the new resident general
Tunis, Tunisia. General and Madame Mast. General Mast is the new resident general of Tunisia
Carthage, Tunisia. General Mast, the new general, paying his respects to the Bey of Tunis at the latter's summer palace
Carthage, Tunisia. General de Gaulle, the Bey of Tunis and General Mast in the courtyard of the bey's summer palace
Carthage, Tunisia. General de Gaulle, accompanied by General Mast, saluting as the band plays Marseillaise outside the summer palace of the bey of Tunis
Tunis, Tunisia. General de Gaulle saluting the guard of honor drawn up at the airport to greet him on the occasion of his visit
