File:Employees of the paint shop playing checkers during lunch 8d27862v.jpg

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Title: Baltimore, Maryland. Employees of the paint shop playing checkers during lunch hour at the Washington terminal of the Baltimore Transit Company where trolleys and buses are maintained and repaired. Employees who work on trolleys are noticeably older than those on buses because trolleys have been in existence longer Creator(s): Collins, Marjory, 1912-1985, photographer Date Created/Published: 1943 Apr. Medium: 1 negative : nitrate ; 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 inches or smaller. Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-fsa-8d27862 (digital file from original neg.) LC-USW3-022036-E (b&w film nitrate neg.) Rights Advisory: No known restrictions. For information, see U.S. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black & White Photographs(https://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/071_fsab.html) Call Number: LC-USW3- 022036-E [P&P] Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print Notes:

   Title and other information from caption card.
   LOT 0689 (Location of corresponding print.)
   Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.
   More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi
   Film copy on SIS roll 13, frame 1385.
fsa.8d27862
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/related/?va=exact&sp=114&st=gallery&q=Collins%2C+Marjory%2C+1912-1985&fi=author&sg=true&op=EQUAL
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Marjory Collins  (1912–1985)  wikidata:Q3293964
 
Marjory Collins
Alternative names
Margory Collins; Marjorie Collins
Description American photographer, photojournalist, journalist, editor, writer and photographer
Date of birth/death 15 March 1912 Edit this at Wikidata 1985 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death New York City San Francisco
Work period 1941-1985
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New York City (August 1941); Washington, D.C. (January 1942); Buffalo (13 April 1943); Alaska (1944); Vermont; Greenbelt (1942); Chevy Chase (1942); Hoboken (1941) Edit this at Wikidata
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creator QS:P170,Q3293964

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Public domain This image is a work of an employee of the United States Farm Security Administration or Office of War Information domestic photographic units, taken as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain in the United States. See Copyright.

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