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. A bicycle rental shop on 22nd Street, near Virginia Avenue N.W., on Sunday
Washington, D.C. Amateur baseball games are held daily on fields near the Washington Monument, between rival governmental departments, employees of restaurants, garages, etc.
Washington, D.C. Renting bicycles at a gas station on East Potomac Park. Notice the "no gas" sign on the nearest gasoline pump
Washington, D.C. A bicycle rental shop on 22nd street near Virginia Avenue, N.W. on Sunday
Washington, D.C. A Sunday picnic in Rock Creek Park
Washington, D.C. Bicycling on Sunday at Haines Point i.e. Hains Point
Washington, D.C. Sunday cyclist at Haines Point i.e. Hains Point
Washington, D.C. Sunday at Haines Point i.e. Hains Point
Washington, D.C. Wading in Rock Creek Park
Washington, D.C. Customers in the Giant Food shopping center on Wisconsin Avenue
Washington, D.C. Shopper waiting in line at a cashier's booth in the Giant Food shopping center
Washington, D.C. Audience of wives watching their husbands play amateur baseball on a diamond near Lincoln Memorial on Sunday. Woman in the rear left is keeping score
Washington, D.C. Sunday cyclist in East Potomac Park
Washington, D.C. Sunday cyclist in East Potomac Park
Washington, D.C. Sunday cyclist in East Potomac Park
Sunday cyclists in East Potomac Park, Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C. Sunday cyclists watching sailboats at Haines Point i.e. Hains Point
Washington, D.C. Sunday cyclists at Haines Point i.e. Hains Point
Washington, D.C. Old and young watching sailboats at Haines Point i.e. Hains Point
Washington, D.C. Sunday fishing at Haines Point i.e. Hains Point
Washington, D.C. Ducks in the Rock Creek Park Zoo
Washington, D.C. Reading beside the Potomac River in East Potomac park on Sunday
Washington, D.C. Picnickers in East Potamac Park
