Joseph Bascom, January 1938
Description
- Creator
- Marjorie Ruddy, Photographer
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Type
- Negatives
- Description
- A black and white negative of a silhouette of Joseph Bascom taken in January of 1938 in Whitby, Ontario.
- Notes
- Joseph Bascom was born 11 July 1911 in Whitby, Ontario. His parents were Dr. Horace and Mary Louise Bascom. Dr. Horace Bascom was Registrar of the Ontario County Courts and later went on to become sheriff.
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
- January 1938
- Dimensions
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Width: 1.5 in
Height: 1.5 in
- Subject(s)
- Personal Name(s)
- Ruddy, Marjorie Georgina ; Bascom, Joseph
- Local identifier
- A2013_040_727B
- Collection
- Whitby Online Historic Photographs Collection
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 43.8738150544454 Longitude: -78.9436632090759
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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
- Joseph Bascom, January 1938, Marjorie Ruddy. Whitby Archives A2013_040_727B.
- Reproduction Notes
- Scanned from a black and white negative.
- Contact
- Whitby Public LibraryEmail:archives@whitbylibrary.ca
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