Figure 1.--This photograph was taken in 1954 on South Uist, the second largest island Outer Hebrides. The names of the three children are Agnes MacDonald along with Morag and Ewan MacLellan. They are clearly not glad to have the photo taken. Perhaps they weere shy, but an experienced photographer knows how to make the people being photographed at ease. The photographer was Margaret Fay Shaw a local photographer who took numerous phothgraphs on the island and would have been know to the children. At the time most children on the Hebrides, like these children, still commonly went barefoot. We are not even sure that the children had shoes. The older girl may be hiding her feet.

This photograph was taken in 1954 on South Uist, the second largest island Outer Hebrides. The names of the three children are Agnes MacDonald along with Morag and Ewan MacLellan. They are clearly not glad to have the photo taken. Perhaps they weere shy, but an experienced photographer knows how to make the people being photographed at ease. This is a little unusual because children this age are normally happy to have their photograph taken. Teenagers and adults are often notb so pleased, but younger children commony think it is fun to have their picture taken. And the phiotographer was Margaret Fay Shaw a local photographer who took numerous phothgraphs on the island and would have been know to the children. At the time most children on the Hebrides, like these children, still commonly went barefoot. We are not even sure that the children had shoes. The older girl may be hiding her feet.

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