Vickery Sisters, c.1946
Description
- Creator
- Marjorie Ruddy, Photographer
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Type
- Negatives
- Description
- A black and white large format negative of Dawn and Gail Vickery sitting together in a chair. In this view they are looking to the right.
- Notes
- John Wesley Tinwell Vickery was born at Whitby, Ontario on 12 February 1899. He died on 17 February 1977 and is buried at Groveside Cemetery, Brooklin, Ontario. Gwendolyn May Agg Vickery was born 4 April 1902 at Eveham, Worcestershire, England. She died on 11 November 1970 and is buried at Groveside Cemetery, Brooklin, Ontario. John and Gwendolyn married at Whitby, Ontario on 1 January 1929. They had four children: Herbert Joseph Wright, John Ronald, Dawn and Gail.
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
- c. 1946
- Dimensions
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Width: 5 in
Height: 3 in
- Subject(s)
- Personal Name(s)
- Ruddy, Marjorie ; Vickery, John Wesley ; Vickery, Gwendolyn May Agg ; Vickery, Dawn ; Vickery, Gail
- Local identifier
- A2013_040_462
- Collection
- Whitby Online Historic Images Collection
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 43.8714483808559 Longitude: -78.9401441508484
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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
- Vickery Sisters, c.1946, Marjorie Ruddy. Whitby Archives A2013_040_462.
- Reproduction Notes
- Scanned from a black and white large format negative.
- Contact
- Whitby Public LibraryEmail:archives@whitbylibrary.ca
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