Walter Layman – Travel Pictures

By James Rummel

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Walter Layman was a photographer who traveled the United States with his little dog Pocahontas. He specialized in documenting Native American culture, and his work appeared in such illustrious publications as Nature and National Geographic.

The original photograph can be found here, and please click on that link to gain access to a picture with a much higher resolution. Note how the license plate shows that Mr. Layman was from Texas, my adopted state, and that he has a black thread tied around his pipe and draped around his neck. No doubt a lanyard for his pipe would be extremely useful while driving that Ford Model A on some rough roads.

Don’t ask me why, but I really like that picture for some reason. Probably because of the dogs, and that I could see myself forging such a career if I had been born a century earlier.

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