- TITLE
- Woman seated at table
- EXTERNAL ID
- GB1796_859_20_0563
- PLACENAME
- unidentified
- PERIOD
- 20c
- CREATOR
- M E M Donaldson
- SOURCE
- Highland Photographic Archive (IMAG)
- ASSET ID
- 10482
- KEYWORDS
- tea
uniforms, service
uniform

This photograph of a woman seated at a table, taking tea and reading a letter, was taken by M.E.M. Donaldson in the first half of the 20th century. From her outfit, (cap and apron) it may be that the woman is employed in service.
The photographer, Mary Ethel Muir Donaldson, was born in 1876 and came to the Highlands around 1908. She travelled extensively around the North and West Highlands, writing and taking photographs. Between 1912 and 1949 she produced many books on the social history and customs of the North and West Highlands. 'Wanderings in the Western Highlands and Islands' and 'Further Wanderings - Mainly in Argyll' are two of her best known works and both are illustrated with her own photographs. She died in a nursing home in Edinburgh in 1958, and was buried in Oban
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