Bird Wedding, c.1940
Description
- Creator
- Marjorie Ruddy, Photographer
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Type
- Negatives
- Description
- A black and white negative of a wedding ceremony inside a church. In this view the bride is being escorted down the aisle by an unidentified man. The negative envelope refers to the wedding as the Bird wedding. The other name on the envelope is illegible.
- 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.1940
- Dimensions
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Width: 1.5 in
Height: 1.5 in
- Subject(s)
- Personal Name(s)
- Ruddy, Marjorie ; Bird
- Local identifier
- A2013_040_697A
- Collection
- Whitby Online Historic Images Collection
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 43.8798937264374 Longitude: -78.942053883667
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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
- Bird Wedding, c.1940, Marjorie Ruddy. Whitby Archives A2013_040_697A.
- Reproduction Notes
- Scanned from a black and white negative.
- Contact
- Whitby Public LibraryEmail:archives@whitbylibrary.ca
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