Gosgrove Child, May 27, 1948
Description
- Mystery Question
- Do you know the name of this child?[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 the Gosgrove child taken on May 27, 1947. In this view the child is smiling. The negative envelope indicates that the picture was taken at the Spruce Villa Hotel in Whitby, Ontario.
- 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
- 27 May 1948
- Dimensions
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Width: 5 in
Height: 3 in
- Subject(s)
- Personal Name(s)
- Ruddy, Marjorie ; Gosgrove
- Local identifier
- A2013_040_525
- Collection
- Whitby Online Historic Images Collection
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 43.8772643515516 Longitude: -78.9554863864136
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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
- Gosgrove Child, May 27, 1948, Marjorie Ruddy. Whitby Archives A2013_040_525.
- Reproduction Notes
- Scanned from a black and white large format negative.
- Contact
- Whitby Public LibraryEmail:archives@whitbylibrary.ca
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