Nativity

Christmas Eve, in the church. Taos, New Mexico, 1942.

Photo by John Collier.

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Home for Christmas

The pre-Christmas rush at the Greyhound bus depot in Washington, D.C. (1941)

Photo by John Collier.

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Lumberjack

This gent, a First Nations lumberjack from Canada, was photographed in Maine during the 1943 Spring pulpwood drive.

Photo by John Collier.

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Haircut

Pulp and paper workers in Maine, 1943. The camp handyman is giving this haircut since the nearest professional barber is 35 miles away.

Photo by John Collier.

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Bloom of Youth

Sometimes it's necessary to go to war.

But armed conflict should never be undertaken lightly. As this photo makes clear, it is a country's young men - barely out of boyhood - who are sacrificed.

Photo taken by John Collier at a San Francisco marines recruiting office, 1941.

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