Mrs Annie Gillies spinning wool outside her old home when she returned to St Kilda for a visit eight years after the island was evacuated in 1930.
The photograph was taken by Robert Atkinson (1915-1995) who visited St Kilda in 1938. There he met islanders who had returned for the summer following the evacuation in 1930.
University of Edinburgh, School of Scottish Studies Archives: SSSA 0014727c