St. John's Church Rectory, c.1931
Description
- Creator
- Marjorie Ruddy, Photographer
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Type
- Negatives
- Description
- A black and white negative of Reverend Douglas B. Langford standing in front of the St. John's Anglican Church Rectory located at 1604 Dufferin Street in Port Whitby.
- Notes
- Reverend Douglas B. Langford was born in India on January 25, 1878. After his marriage he came to Toronto, Canada, as Vicar of Little Trinity Church. From 1924 to 1948 he was Rector of St. John's Anglican Church at Port Whitby. He died at Toronto on December 7, 1949, and is buried in St. John's Anglican Cemetery, Port Whitby.
Marjorie Georgina Ruddy (1908-1980) was a prominent Whitby photographer and the only commercial photographer in Whitby during the 1930s and 1940s. Marjorie was the official photographer for the Whitby Police Department starting in the 1930s and as a result took many photographs of car accidents, fingerprints and crime scenes. (Station Gallery. Whitby Through the Lens Photographs by Marjorie G. Ruddy, 1935-1948. Whitby: Station Gallery, 2010.) - Date of Original
- 1931
- Dimensions
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Width: 1.5 in
Height: 1.5 in
- Subject(s)
- Personal Name(s)
- Ruddy, Marjorie Georgina ; Langford, Reverend Douglas B.
- Corporate Name(s)
- St. John's Anglican Church
- Local identifier
- A2013_040_020C
- Collection
- Whitby Online Historic Photographs Collection
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 43.8614963914384 Longitude: -78.9324140244674
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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
- St. John's Church Rectory, c.1931, Marjorie Ruddy. Whitby Archives A2013_040_020C.
- Reproduction Notes
- Scanned from a black and white negative.
- Contact
- Whitby Public LibraryEmail:archives@whitbylibrary.ca
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