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Image Not Available for Always to be impure has been this one's lot throughout life. The hardest work is given him, the least pay.
Always to be impure has been this one's lot throughout life. The hardest work is given him, the least pay.
Image Not Available for Always to be impure has been this one's lot throughout life. The hardest work is given him, the least pay.

Always to be impure has been this one's lot throughout life. The hardest work is given him, the least pay.

Creator Dorien Leigh
Date1934
Mediumgelatin silver print
DimensionsOverall: 21.5 x 16.2 cm (8 7/16 x 6 3/8 in.)
Credit LineAnonymous Gift, 2002
Category
Object number2002/5751
LocationNot currently on display

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A Pygmy. Each Mutussi Chief has one of these Pygmies as a sort of licensed thief and spy.
Dorien Leigh
1930s
Photograph
Image Not Available for This chef claims to have cracked roughly 20,142,307 eggs. Employed by a well known firm of bakers, he has done nothing but break eggs for fifteen years, at the rate of one million and a quarter per annum.
This chef claims to have cracked roughly 20,142,307 eggs. Employed by a well known firm of bakers, he has done nothing but break eggs for fifteen years, at the rate of one million and a quarter per annum.
Dorien Leigh
1930s
Photograph
Image Not Available for Village life goes on unchanged; Michael Hanley, timber worker, and his old horse go on carrying timber as though such things as trans-atlantic flights did not exist.
Village life goes on unchanged; Michael Hanley, timber worker, and his old horse go on carrying timber as though such things as trans-atlantic flights did not exist.
Dorien Leigh
c. 1937
Photograph
Image Not Available for Village life goes on unchanged; Michael Hanley, timber worker, and his old horse go on carrying timber as though such things as transatlantic flights did not exist.
Village life goes on unchanged; Michael Hanley, timber worker, and his old horse go on carrying timber as though such things as transatlantic flights did not exist.
Dorien Leigh
c. 1937
Photograph
Image Not Available for A real Irish colleen, Maura Bourke, aged 16. Flying boats don't affect her life nor interest her much. She still goes on drawing water daily from the pump as her ancestors have for many generations.
A real Irish colleen, Maura Bourke, aged 16. Flying boats don't affect her life nor interest her much. She still goes on drawing water daily from the pump as her ancestors have for many generations.
Dorien Leigh
c. 1937
Photograph
Image Not Available for Cows have the freedom of the road in sleepy Foynes and life there is not affected at all by the fact that it is the starting point for the transatlantic flights; very few of the inhabitants even know the way to the airport.
Cows have the freedom of the road in sleepy Foynes and life there is not affected at all by the fact that it is the starting point for the transatlantic flights; very few of the inhabitants even know the way to the airport.
Dorien Leigh
c. 1937
Photograph
Image Not Available for Pub life goes on as usual, for the village is not affected at all by the proximity of the airport. Here a local gentleman enjoys a glass of beer at the pub which is in the hotel which also houses the I.F.S. airport authorities office.
Pub life goes on as usual, for the village is not affected at all by the proximity of the airport. Here a local gentleman enjoys a glass of beer at the pub which is in the hotel which also houses the I.F.S. airport authorities office.
Dorien Leigh
c. 1937
Photograph
Image Not Available for Resting after a hard morning's work.
Resting after a hard morning's work.
Dorien Leigh
1930s
Photograph
Image Not Available for One of the hospital's native nurses instructs a new mother in bathing her baby before she leaves the hospital.
One of the hospital's native nurses instructs a new mother in bathing her baby before she leaves the hospital.
Dorien Leigh
1930s
Photograph
Image Not Available for Buckingham Palace is only one of the many great buildings whose whole aspect is changed by the stands which are being erected for the coronation.
Buckingham Palace is only one of the many great buildings whose whole aspect is changed by the stands which are being erected for the coronation.
Dorien Leigh
1930s
Photograph
Image Not Available for Rock climbing is hardly a thing to be done unless one does it for pleasure and for some, there are few greater pleasures than scaling a perpendicular rock in this manner.
Rock climbing is hardly a thing to be done unless one does it for pleasure and for some, there are few greater pleasures than scaling a perpendicular rock in this manner.
Dorien Leigh
1930s
Photograph
Image Not Available for Umbrellas in the army. Hardly the costume one would expect of a warlike officer of the Nepalese army.
Umbrellas in the army. Hardly the costume one would expect of a warlike officer of the Nepalese army.
Dorien Leigh
1930s
Photograph
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