Kerr Child, May 1947
Description
- Mystery Question
- Do you know the name of the child 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 large format negative of a young girl posing in her Scottish highland dance costume. In this view she is standing on a stool with her hands on her hips. The negative envelope indicates her last name as Kerr.
- 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
- May 1947
- Dimensions
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Width: 5 in
Height: 3 in
- Subject(s)
- Personal Name(s)
- Ruddy, Marjorie Georgina ; Kerr
- Local identifier
- A2013_040_512
- Collection
- Whitby Online Historic Photographs Collection
- Language of Item
- English
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 43.8797081273105 Longitude: -78.9419680529785
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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
- Kerr Child, May 1947, Marjorie Ruddy. Whitby Archives, A2013_040_512.
- Reproduction Notes
- Scanned from a black and white large format negative.
- Contact
- Whitby Public LibraryEmail:archives@whitbylibrary.ca
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