Rice Family, c.1937
Description
- Creator
- Marjorie Ruddy, Photographer
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Type
- Negatives
- Description
- A black and white negative of Dorothy (Rice) Larkin, daughter Frances Larkin, and Mrs. Irene Rice standing on Brock Street South in Whitby, Ontario. A sign for Lee Tow Laundry can be seen in the background.
- Notes
- Dorothy (Rice) Larkin was born on 10 March 1915 to Frank J. Rice and Irene Evelyn McGregor Rice in Whitby, Ontario. She married John B. Larkin and together they had three surviving children: Frances, Linda and John. Mrs. Larkin died on 15 May 1978 and is buried in Union Cemetery, Oshawa, 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
- c.1937
- Dimensions
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Width: 1.5 in
Height: 1.5 in
- Subject(s)
- Personal Name(s)
- Ruddy, Marjorie Georgina ; Larkin, Dorothy Rice ; Larkin, Frances ; Rice, Irene Evelyn
- Local identifier
- A2013_040_671A
- Collection
- Whitby Online Historic Photographs Collection
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 43.8792286602232 Longitude: -78.9421611720276
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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
- Rice Family, c.1937, Marjorie Ruddy. Whitby Archives A2013_040_671A.
- Reproduction Notes
- Scanned from a black and white negative.
- Contact
- Whitby Public LibraryEmail:archives@whitbylibrary.ca
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