May Court Festival, 1938
Description
- Creator
- Marjorie Ruddy, Photographer
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Types
- Negatives
- Photographs
- Description
- Black and white negative showing the May Court in front of the main entrance to Ontario Ladies' College. The May Queen, Betty Doe, stands at the right side of the photograph. Some of her Counsellors/attendants hold her train.
- Notes
- Trafalgar Castle was built for Nelson Gilbert Reynolds (1814-1881), Sheriff of Ontario County from 1852 to 1881. Trafalgar Castle was designed by Toronto architect, Joseph Sheard and built between 1859 and 1862. The Sheriff lived in Trafalgar Castle from 1862 until 1874 when he sold the building to the Methodist Church of Canada for use as a ladies college. Ontario Ladies' College is now known as Trafalgar Castle School.
- Date of Original
- 24 May 1938
- Dimensions
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Width: 3.5 cm
Height: 2.5 cm
- Subject(s)
- Local identifier
- 23-000-415
- Collection
- Whitby Online Historical Images Collection
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 43.8785635865854 Longitude: -78.9329558306885
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- Creative Commons licence
[more details]- Copyright Statement
- Public domain: Copyright has expired according to Canadian copyright law. No restrictions on use.
- Recommended Citation
- May Court Festival, 1938, Marjorie Ruddy, Whitby Archives, 23-000-415.
- Reproduction Notes
- Scanned from copy negative.
- Contact
- Whitby Public LibraryEmail:archives@whitbylibrary.ca
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