Ralph E. Matton Tug, October 19, 1938
Description
- Mystery Question
- Can you identify the men in this photograph?[Please answer by clicking on the Comments tab]
- Creator
- Marjorie Ruddy, Photographer
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Type
- Negatives
- Description
- A black and white negative of two unidentified men standing on the the Ralph E. Matton Tugboat in the Whitby Harbour on October 19, 1938.
- Notes
- Ralph Matton owned a shipyard, John E. Matton & Sons, with his father in Cohoes, New York. The shipyard closed in 1966.
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)
- John E. Matton & Sons
- Local identifier
- A2013_040_733A
- Collection
- Whitby Online Historic Photographs Collection
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 43.8553424742517 Longitude: -78.9346089629516
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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
- Ralph E. Matton Tug, October 19, 1938, October 19, 1938, Marjorie Ruddy. Whitby Archives A2013_040_733A.
- Reproduction Notes
- Scanned from a black and white negative.
- Contact
- Whitby Public LibraryEmail:archives@whitbylibrary.ca
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