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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Maynard Owen Williams was a National Geographic correspondent from 1919. He was
an inveterate traveller who began travelling in his teens, explored
Asia and witnessed the Russian Revolution, among other adventures.
Born: September 12, 1888
Died: June 1963
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