Title: The Water Carriers (Lofoten Islands) ✻
Full printed title on tissue guard: La Provision d’Eau (Iles Lofoten) ✻

✻ (sic)  A printing error included this reference to the Norwegian Lofoten Islands, which are properly identified along with Planche #12 for 1905.

“Let us also record…Mademoiselle Massion’s highly artistic Algerian panel effects…” 1.

Thematically, the inset photograph of a woman carrying water at bottom of plate has a direct correlation to the group of men hauling water at center, acting as a  photographic remarque to this larger image.

1. The Paris Photographic Salon: in: Down-Town Topics: Published by the Obrig Camera Company: New York: July, 1905: p. 5