Very good point Jock!
Which I should have considered! I've been in Scottish daylight at, what, 10pm, 11pm in the Summer?
It was my Latitudinal bias to equate daylight and daytime.
In any case I think I see at least one gent clutching a bonnet in his hand.
About forming an opinion based on a photo, that's what historians have to do, use the evidence they have.
I doubt that anyone still living was there when that photo was taken, nor are there likely to be letters or diaries recording the event becoming public record, so all we have is the image itself.
Thus we have no choice but allow that photo to tell its own tale (a group of men in Evening Dress outdoors in daylight, as you point out the exact hour cannot be known).
Last edited by OC Richard; 5th January 21 at 07:41 AM.
Proud Mountaineer from the Highlands of West Virginia; son of the Revolution and Civil War; first Europeans on the Guyandotte
Bookmarks