Marjory Collins

Marjory Collins (15 March 1912 – 1985) was an American photographer and writer, known for her coverage of the United States home front during World War II for the Farm Security Administration and the Office of War Information.

Personal life Marjory Collins was born on 15 March 1912, to Elizabeth Everts Paine and writer Frederick Lewis Collins in New York City, and grew up in nearby Scarsdale, Westchester County.

She died in 1985 at the age of 73.

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. In 1977, Collins became an associate of the Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press.

Her work is included in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston.

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