Marjory Collins

 New York, New York. Italian-American children buying stamps and bonds at Public School eight on King Street from mothers who volunteer to guard doorways and. December 1942

  

 New York, New York. Merchant seamen's Christmas party at the Andrew Feruseth Club on Christmas Day. Dancing with hostesses. December 1942

  

 New York, New York. Orchestra in a Turkish nightclub on Allen Street. 

The girl plays a tambourine between dances. December 1942

  

 New York, New York. R. H. Macy and Company department store 

during the week before Christmas. December 1942

  

 New York, New York. Shoeshine parlor on East Forty-Second Street. Customers in the foreground are waiting while their shoes are repaired. September 1942

  

New York. New York. Class in citizenship and English for Italians given free of charge at the Hudson Park library on Seventh Avenue near Bleeker Street. January 1943

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 New York, New York. Blowing horns on 

Bleeker Street on New Year's Day, January 1943

  

 New York, New York. Class in Public School Eight on King Street, discussing a book entitled "We love America," brought to school by one of the pupils. January 1943

  

 New York, New York. Class in Public School Eight on King Street, discussing a book entitled "We love America," brought to school by one of the pupils. January 1943

  

 New York, New York. Customers in a grocery store on Mulberry Street. 

Italian, Jewish and Chinese people live in this neighborhood. January 1943

  

 New York, New York. Dr. and Mrs. Winn [or Wynn], Janet and Marie, a Czech-American family, playing Chinese checkers while their grandmother knits. October 1942

  

 New York, New York. Gypsy woman who is habitue of Marconi's Restaurant on Mulberry Street. She dropped in for a bite to eat New Year's Eve, and did a spontaneous dance. November 1942

  

New York, New York. New Year's Eve in Marconi's Restaurant on Mulberry Street. 

This Gypsy woman is a habitue of the place. November 1942

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Ms. Collins took these photos in Oswego, New York in June 1943.

A citizen showing his wife vegetables from his 

victory garden as she starts on her way to church

  

A hayride for the United Nations heroes and Oswego girls during United Nations week

  

A street

  

 Ames Ironworks float, drawn by horses because of the 

gas rationing, in the United Nations week parade

  

Belgian sailor leads singing on a hayride for the United Nations 

heroes and Oswego girls during United Nations week

  

 Boys recruited to work on the farms during the summer 

waiting to be picked up by the farmers at 7:30 am

  

 Diamond Match Company unit in the United Nations week parade

  

Greek sailor and his friends at the carnival during United Nations week

  

Belgian and Greek sailors talking with a Negro worker 

at the carnival during United Nations week

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 Washington, D.C. Salvage drive, Victory Program. "Cleaning" metal 

 by hammering off parts to separate kinds of metal, 1942

  

 Washington, D.C. Scrap salvage campaign, Victory Program. 

Children bringing their weekly contribution of scrap paper to school, 1942

  

 Washington, D.C. Scrap salvage campaign, Victory Program. 

Children bringing their weekly contribution of scrap paper to school, 1942

  

 Washington, D.C. Scrap salvage campaign, Victory Program. People bring 

their junk to a retail junk yard in everything from a pushcart to a limousine, 1942

  

 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, 1942

  

 Washington, D.C. Scrap salvage campaign, Victory Program. This wagon 

has been used to collect scrap. It is parked outside a retail junk yard, 1942

  

 Washington, D.C. Scrap salvage campaign, Victory Program. Washington schoolchild 

brings a load of scrap paper to school once a week, 1942

  

 Washington, D.C. Sunbathers in East Potomac Park on Sunday, 1942

  

 Washington, D.C. Sunday swimmers at the municipal swimming pool, 1942

  

 Washington, D.C. Taking snapshots on Sunday in Rock Creek Park, 1942

  

Washington, D.C. Watermelon vendor at the farmers' market, 1942

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 St. Mary's County, Maryland. Sunday school picnic on the edge of the Patuxent River, 1942

 

 St. Mary's County, Maryland. Sunday school picnic on the edge of the Patuxent River, 1942

 

 Washington, D.C. A Sunday picnic in Rock Creek Park, 1942

 

 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, 1942

 

 Washington, D.C. Government workers lunch outside the 

U.S. Department of Agriculture in Washington Monument park, 1942

 

 Washington, D.C. Government workers lunch outside the 

U.S. Department of Agriculture in Washington Monument park, 1942

 

 Washington, D.C. Municipal swimming pool on Sunday, 1942

 

 Washington, D.C. On Sunday people wait as long 

as one hour to get into the municipal swimming pool, 1942

 

 Washington, D.C. Picnickers in East Potomac Park, 1942

 

 Washington, D.C. Relaxing on the edge of the municipal swimming pool on Sunday, 1942

 

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 At 7 a.m. on June 21, 1942, the day before stricter gas rationing was enforced, 

cars were pouring into this gas station on upper Wisconsin Avenue

 

 New York. Janet and Marie Wynn (lower left), Czech-American children, 

climbing on monkey bars in Central Park playground, 1942

 New York. Mall fountain in Central Park on Sunday, 1942

 

 New York. Manicurist at Francois de Paris, a hairdresser on Eighth Street, 1942
 

 New York. O'Reilly's bar on Third Avenue in the Fifties, 1942

 

 New York. O'Reilly's bar on Third Avenue in the Fifties, 1942

 

 New York. The mall restaurant in Central Park on Sunday, 1942

 

New York. Train gate at the Pennsylvania railroad station, 1942
 

 New York. Waiting for trains at the Pennsylvania railroad station, 1942

 

 New York. Waiting room at the Pennsylvania railroad station, 1942

 

 Residents of one of Washington's best residential sections 

apply for sugar ration cards at Adams School, 1942