12-12-12 National Geographic photo of the day: Art Student, Jerusalem 1926.

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