Car Wreck, July 2, 1937
Description
- Creator
- Marjorie Ruddy, Photographer
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Type
- Negatives
- Description
- A black and white negative of a car that collided with a steel girder on the Lynde Creek Bridge in Whitby, Ontario. View is of the car resting on its side.
- Notes
- In the early hours of July 2, 1937 four residents of Oshawa, Ontario were involved in a car accident when the car they were traveling in collided with a steel girder on the Lynde Creek bridge in Whitby, Ontario.
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
- 2 July 1937
- Dimensions
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Width: 1.5 in
Height: 1.5 in
- Subject(s)
- Personal Name(s)
- Ruddy, Marjorie Georgina
- Local identifier
- A2013_040_170A
- Collection
- Whitby Online Historic Photographs Collection
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 43.8794606609085 Longitude: -78.9421397143554
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- Copyright Statement
- Public domain: Copyright has expired according to Canadian copyright law. No restrictions on use.
- Recommended Citation
- Car Wreck, July 2, 1937, Marjorie Ruddy. Whitby Archives A2013_040_170A.
- Reproduction Notes
- Scanned from a black and white negative.
- Contact
- Whitby Public LibraryEmail:archives@whitbylibrary.ca
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