Argo Petroleum Tanks, October 19, 1938
Description
- Creator
- Marjorie Ruddy, Photographer
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Type
- Negatives
- Description
- A black and white negative of men working on the Argo Petroleum tanks in the Whitby Harbour on October 19, 1938.
- Notes
- The Argo Petroleum tanks were built at the Whitby Harbour in 1938 on the east side of the harbour. The tanks were replaced by larger oil tanks circa 1947 and were demolished in the early 1980s.
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
- 19 October 1938
- Dimensions
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Width: 1.5 in
Height: 1.5 in
- Subject(s)
- Personal Name(s)
- Ruddy, Marjorie Georgina
- Corporate Name(s)
- Argo Petroleum
- Local identifier
- A2013_040_732A
- Collection
- Whitby Online Historic Photographs Collection
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 43.8552496365296 Longitude: -78.9342227248535
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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
- Argo Petroleum Tanks, October 19, 1938, Marjorie Ruddy. Whitby Archives A2013_040_732A.
- Reproduction Notes
- Scanned from a black and white negative.
- Contact
- Whitby Public LibraryEmail:archives@whitbylibrary.ca
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