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Picture of woodcarvers in India
December 8, 2012

Woodcarvers, India

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

National Geographic photographer Maynard Owen Williams captured this image of woodcarvers in Amritsar while on assignment for a July 1921 story covering India.

A pioneer of travel photography, Williams joined the staff of National Geographic in 1919.

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Photograph by Maynard Owen Williams, National Geographic

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