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Catalogue Reference:(JML) 1986.32.16

A very stylish young couple taken in this late 19th-century or early 20th-century photograph. The smartly suited man wears a boater or straw hat, while his companion wears a large hat decorated with a feather and carries a parasol or small umbrella. The demand for bird feathers as hat decoration in the millinery (hat-making) trade was so great in the 19th century that the survival of certain species was threatened. The near-extinction of one bird - the great crested grebe - prompted the setting up of an organisation in 1889 which became The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB).

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