Robert White, c.1885
Description
- Creator:
- W.E. O'Brien, Photographer
- Media Type:
- Image
- Item Types:
- Negatives
- Cartes de visite
- Photographs
- Description:
- Black and white negative of a photograph of a carte de visite of the bust of Robert White. The photograph was taken in a studio.
- Notes:
- Robert White (1816-1908) of England married Elizabeth Rowan (1822-1909) of Ireland in 1843. In 1852 they settled at Whitby on lot 29 of Concession 2 after living for some time at Toronto.
Robert White was a brick and tile maker and he operated a brick yard on his property at the south-west corner of Cochrane Street and Rossland Road where the bricks of most of Whitby's nineteenth century buildings were made.
Robert and Elizabeth had nine children: Joseph (1844-1921), Thomas, Jane (1847-1914), William, Robert, Sarah Ann, Elizabeth, John, James.
- Date of Original:
- c.1885
- Subject(s):
- Local identifier:
- 31-009-268
- Collection:
- Whitby Online Historic Images Collection
- Geographic Coverage:
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 43.88342
Longitude: -78.93287
- Copyright Statement:
- Copyright status unknown. Responsibility for determining the copyright status and any use rests exclusively with the user.
- Recommended Citation:
- Robert White, c.1885
W.E. O'Brien
Whitby Archives
31-009-268
- Reproduction Notes:
- Scanned from copy negative.
- Contact
Whitby Public Library
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