Happy New Year, everyone!
Marjory Collins/Office of War Information: New York, New York.
Blowing horns on Bleeker Street on New Year's Day. January 1943.
We're celebrating, today, with Marjory Collins, who worked for Roy Stryker's now legendary Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information [FSA/OWI] documentary project during World War II. She spent New Year's Eve, 1942, photographing the customers, entertainers, and cooks at restaurant in Little Italy. On New Year's Day, 1943, she roamed lower Manhattan, making photos of church-goers on Mulberry Street and these boys on Bleeker Street.
Marjory Collins/Office of War Information: New York, New York.
Blowing horns on Bleeker Street on New Year's Day. January 1943.
The boys were having fun, and it's pretty clear that Collins was, too.
While FSA/OWI photographers fulfilled specific assignments, they also had the freedom to photograph people and events that caught their imagination. These photos are examples of the slice-of-American-life images that make the FSA/OWI archive so valuable.
Marjory Collins/Office of War Information: New York, New York.
Blowing horns on Bleeker Street on New Year's Day. January 1943.
Wishing you all the best in 2015.
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