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FOOD AND COOKING 15

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Summary: Woman digging

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This famous illustration appeared in the Illustrated London News. It records the hopelessness of the Famine as women and children desperately dug in fields hoping to find a few potatoes that were not blighted.

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Woman digging
© Illustrated London News, Picture Library - Code: ILNG006607 - Dated 22 December, 1849

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