Inverlynn, June 1936
Description
- Mystery Question
- Can you identify the woman in this photograph?[Please answer by clicking on the Comments tab]
- Creator
- Marjorie Ruddy, Photographer
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Type
- Negatives
- Description
- A black and white negative of a woman sitting by a pond at Inverlynn. Inverlynn house was built at the intersection of Raglan and Giffard Street (1300 Gifford Street) in 1860 for William Laing (1818-1891). In 1870, the house was purchased by George McGillivray (1813-1894). Since 1870, the house has belonged to descendants of the McGillivray family.
- Notes
- 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
- June 1936
- Dimensions
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Width: 1.5 in
Height: 1.5 in
- Subject(s)
- Personal Name(s)
- Ruddy, Marjorie
- Local identifier
- A2013_040_188B
- Collection
- Whitby Online Historic Images Collection
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 43.8779913079782 Longitude: -78.9591985636902
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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
- Inverlynn, June 1936, Marjorie Ruddy. Whitby Archives A2013_040_188B.
- Reproduction Notes
- Scanned from a black and white negative.
- Contact
- Whitby Public LibraryEmail:archives@whitbylibrary.ca
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