Photograph of a milk maid of East Hallside Farm, Cambuslang, 1920. Writing on the reverse of the photograph identifies her as 'Auntie Maggie Marshall'.

Maggie posed for the photograph wearing her work clothes and holding her luggie or milking-pail and her four-legged milking stool, the symbols of her occupation.

Milking was always considered to be women's work. It required care and cleanliness. Having taken the foaming buckets of milk from the byre, the milk was poured into basins to settle. Once the cream had risen to the top it was skimmed off to be used in butter or cheese making, leaving behind the fresh milk.