Given the number of news stories about the jubilee celebrations this weekend and the forthcoming Olympic Games, I thought I’d post this picture: a photograph taken in June 1887, at a village sports day marking Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee. Unfortunately, the Sack Race (with or without a lying down start) is not an official Olympic sport, yet…
Start of the Sack Race, Moniaive Jubilee Sports, June 1887. (MS Paterson FO24)
This photograph is from the collection of James Paterson (1854-1932), an artist and keen photographer who was one of a group of painters known as the ‘Glasgow Boys’. For 30 years he lived in the village of Moniaive in Dumfries and Galloway. The Hunterian Art Gallery holds many examples of his work.
Categories: Special Collections
Tags: 19th century, early photography, Glasgow Boys, James Paterson, Jubilee, Moniaive, photograph, Queen Victoria, sport
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