Old Photographs Foula Scotland

Old photograph of the island of Foula located in the Atlantic ocean twenty miles west of Walls on the Shetland Islands, Scotland. In 1720, a smallpox epidemic struck the two hundred people living on Foula. Because the islanders were so isolated from the rest of the world, they had no immunity to smallpox, unlike most North European peoples at that time, and nine out of ten of the island's population died in the epidemic.

Old photograph of the island of Foula located in the Atlantic ocean twenty miles west of Walls on the Shetland Islands, Scotland.

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