Boata Family, c.1945
Description
- Mystery Question
- Do you know the first names of the people 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 medium format negative of the Boata family taken in Peterborough, Ontario. In this view Mr. and Mrs. Boata are sitting on a couch. Mr. Boata is hold on to a young girl who is standing in between them.
- 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
- c.1945
- Dimensions
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Width: 5 in
Height: 3 in
- Subject(s)
- Personal Name(s)
- Ruddy, Marjorie ; Boata
- Local identifier
- A2013_040_615
- Collection
- Whitby Online Historic Images Collection
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 44.55012 Longitude: -78.24953
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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
- Boata Family, January 7, 1945, Marjorie Ruddy. Whitby Archives A2013_040_615.
- Reproduction Notes
- Scanned from a black and white medium format negative.
- Contact
- Whitby Public LibraryEmail:archives@whitbylibrary.ca
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