July 1942. “Chevy Chase, Maryland. Serving supper to motorists at an A&W Hot Shoppes restaurant
on Wisconsin Avenue, just over the District line,” by Marjory Collins for the Office of War Information
Excert from article on blog site Ravishly:
Eternal iconoclast Marjory Collins was hired in 1941. Also assigned to cover home front life during the war, Collins found her niche photographing women and what she called “hyphenated Americans”—the immigrant communities that had settled in the United States, and especially those that came from countries the U.S. was sparring with overseas. Later, like Rosener, Collins focused on women in industry and the struggles they faced as they tried to balance societal demands levied against them as both workers and wives.
Collins kept up with social causes after the war, and was a prominent participant in anti-war protests and equal-rights rallies in the 1960s. When she was forced out of her full-time job as a magazine editor through ageist, sexist means, she went on to found a new publication aimed at older women called Prime Time.
Read More: https://www.loc.gov/rr/print/coll/womphotoj/collinsessay.html
