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Women carrying peat, a great fuel of Ireland village Dooagh, Achill Island, Ireland – Antique Print

Women carrying peat, a great fuel of Ireland village Dooagh, Achill Island, Ireland, c1903. — historic photograph
Women carrying peat, a great fuel of Ireland village Dooagh, Achill Island, Ireland, c1903.. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This rare historic photograph captures Women carrying peat, a great fuel of Ireland village Dooagh, Achill Island, Ireland in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Women carrying peat, a great fuel of Ireland village Dooagh, Achill Island, Ireland

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Women carrying peat from the bogs near Dooagh, a village on Achill Island off the west coast of County Mayo, show the daily labor behind a household's fuel. Locally called turf, peat was cut from the bog, dried in the open air, and carried home, and it remained a main source of heat for many rural Irish families into the twentieth century. The view is a stereograph, designed to be seen through a viewer for a three-dimensional effect. It was issued under the name of William H. Rau, a Philadelphia photographer who sold travel views to American audiences around 1903.

Created / publishedc1903.
Medium1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph.
SubjectsStereo copyrighted by William H. Rau. No. 5528. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Peat; Ireland--A- Z-; Woman--In foreign countries; Photog. Index; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,407 × 1,536 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-132518

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