Going Home, 1940

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Screen Shot 2013-03-01 at 15.34.05walker-howell-potato-farmer-carries-her-crop-in-a-basket-on-her-back Screen-Shot-2013-03-01-at-15.29.18an-irishman-with-his-dog-admire-howell-walkerEnd of a long week.

Pictures by Harrison Howell Walker taken around Ireland in the summer of 1940, ostensibly for The National Geographic but some for his own – and now our – pleasure.

Includes obligatory Irish mother cutting turf after burying her son.

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(Thanks Sibling of Daedalus)

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