Norah Morrissey & Relatives, August 1950

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Creator

Marjorie Ruddy, Photographer

Media Type

Image

Item Type

Negatives

Description

A black and white large format negative of Norah Morrissey and relatives. In this view all four people are sitting down.

Notes

Honorah (Norah) Mary Beamish was born at Burritts Rapids, Ontario on October 11, 1913. She married Nicholas James Morrissey in Whitby, Ontario on October 4, 1940. She died on December 16, 1957 and is buried in St. John's Roman Catholic Cemetery, 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

August 1950

Dimensions

Width: 4 in
Height: 3 in

Subject(s)

Family
Photographers

Personal Name(s)

Ruddy, Marjorie ; Morrissey, Norah

Local identifier

A2013_040_317

Collection

Whitby Online Historic Images Collection

Geographic Coverage

Whitby

Ontario, Canada

Latitude: 43.879831860126 Longitude: -78.9421397143554

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