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Mr John Moore and his wife Jane, married for seventy years 6 - 6 Sep 1894
Gelatin silver print | 19.7 x 16.8 cm (image) | RCIN 2911072

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Mr John Moore and his wife Jane, married for seventy years 6 - 6 Sep 1894
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Photograph of Mr John Moore and his wife Jane, married for 70 years, standing together by a well, both looking at the camera, under a tree. A bucket about to be lowered into the well. Queen Victoria kept an album of photographs of people who had accomplished unusual feats. The album includes eleven centenarians but Mr and Mrs Moore's achievement must have been even more rare. The couple came from Sussex and the photograph was sent to the Queen's Private Secretary, Sir Henry Ponsonby, by the Reverend Arthur Mackreth Deane, Vicar of Ferring, near Worthing. He explained that 'since I sent the photograph of John and Jane Moore, who have been married for 70 years, ... we have had another photograph of the old couple taken, and as it is so much better than the former one, I venture to send it for the gracious acceptance of Her Majesty.'
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Acquired by Queen Victoria
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Gelatin silver print
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19.7 x 16.8 cm (image)
22.5 x 18.0 cm (page dimensions)
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Mr John Moore and his wife Jane, married for 70 years, September 6th 1894. [Photographic Portraits. Volume 67.]