Mabel James, c.1939
Description
- Creator
- Marjorie Ruddy, Photographer
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Type
- Negatives
- Description
- A black and white negative of a passport photograph of Mrs. Mabel James. The negative envelope indicates that the photograph was taken on May 3. No specific year was given.
- Notes
- Mrs. Mabel (Bosley) James was born in 1907. She married Frederick George James and they had two children: Mary and Phyllis Mary. Mrs. James died on 16 November 1989 in Whitby, 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.1939
- Dimensions
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Width: 1.5 in
Height: 1.5 in
- Subject(s)
- Personal Name(s)
- Ruddy, Marjorie Georgina ; James, Mabel Bosley
- Local identifier
- A2013_040_715A
- Collection
- Whitby Online Historic Photographs Collection
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 43.8763208416877 Longitude: -78.9432555133056
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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
- Mabel James, c.1939, Marjorie Ruddy. Whitby Archives A2013_040_715A.
- Reproduction Notes
- Scanned from a black and white negative.
- Contact
- Whitby Public LibraryEmail:archives@whitbylibrary.ca
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