Measures to check the potato disease in Ireland
These illustrations show measures taken to combat the potato disease in Ireland. They include boiling and packing partially diseased tubers, burning stalks, Poor Law Inspectors investigating potato blight and ploughing out potatoes. The potato famine disaster in the mid-19th century caused terrible famine and misery
Picture No
10221192
Media ID
46004506
Size
3494px x 4978px
(4.2MB)
Credit
© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
Source
The Illustrated London News. 25 October 1890. page 519
Date
1890
