Born 1912 in New York City, American photojournalist Marjory Collins work as a documentary photographer was taken up by major agencies. As a result of a contribution for U.S. Camera and Travel about Hoboken, New Jersey, she was invited to work for the Foreign Service of the United States Office of War Information.
Life of the U.S. in 1942 and 1943 taken by Marjory Collins
Collins completed some 50 assignments there with stories about the American way of life and support for the war effort. In line with new emphasis on multiculturalism, she contributed to photographic coverage of African Americans as well as citizens of Czech, German, Italian and Jewish origin.
In 1944, Collins worked freelance for a construction company in Alaska before traveling 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, Collins edited American Journal of Public Health. She was very active politically; a feminist, she founded the journal Prime Time (1971–76) “for the liberation of women in the prime of life.” In 1977 Collins became an associate of the Women’s Institute for Freedom of the Press.
A Farm Security Administration housing relief camp for African-Americans. Interior of an expansible trailer, showing one wing used as a dining and living room, Arlington, Virginia, April 1942
A woman hanging out washing with her young son in front of the community building in a FSA (Farm Security Administration) housing relief camp for African Americans, Arlington, Virginia, 1942
Applicants for sugar rationing cards, Adams School, Washington, D.C., May 1942
At 7 a.m. on June 21st, the day before stricter gas rationing was enforced, cars were pouring into this gas station on upper Wisconsin Ave., Washington, D.C., 1942
Boy is looking up junk dealers in the telephone directory, wants junk dealer pick up the scrap which he collected stored in his cellar, Washington, D.C., May 1942
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