Truck Wreck, June 10, 1937
Description
- Creator
- Marjorie Ruddy, Photographer
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Type
- Negatives
- Description
- A black and white negative of a Ford delivery truck that has been in an accident. View is of the driver's side of the truck. The truck is inside the garage at Whitby Motors Ltd.
- Notes
- Whitby Motors Ltd. was located at 103 Dundas Street East. It was built by William Davidson about 1917 on the south side of Dundas Street east of the Dominion Bank at Brock Street. Later the garage became known as Whitby Motors Ltd. Mr. Davidson operated the garage until his retirement in 1962.
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
- 10 June 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_202C
- Collection
- Whitby Online Historic Photographs Collection
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 43.8797081273105 Longitude: -78.9418393069458
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- Copyright Statement
- Public domain: Copyright has expired according to Canadian copyright law. No restrictions on use.
- Recommended Citation
- Truck Wreck, June 10, 1937, Marjorie Ruddy. Whitby Archives A2013_040_202C.
- Reproduction Notes
- Scanned from a black and white negative.
- Contact
- Whitby Public LibraryEmail:archives@whitbylibrary.ca
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