This Month in Photo of the Day: Vintage National Geographic Photographs

Sunlight falls on a student at Jerusalem’s Bezalel School of Arts and Crafts in this photo by Maynard Owen Williams from around 1926.

An inveterate traveler, Williams was National Geographic’s first foreign correspondent.

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