Devil's Den, August 1, 1938
Description
- Creator
- Ruddy, Marjorie Georgina, 1908-1980, Photographer
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Type
- Negatives
- Description
- A black and white negative of an intersection of two roads in a valley known as the Devil's Den in Whitby, Ontario. On the negative envelope Marjorie refers to this intersection as the "Four Corners".
- Notes
- Devil's Den is a valley in the Heber Down Conservation Area 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
- 1 August 1938
- Dimensions
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Width: 1.5 in
Height: 1.5 in
- Subject(s)
- Personal Name(s)
- Ruddy, Marjorie Georgina
- Local identifier
- A2013_040_759C
- Collection
- Whitby Online Historic Photographs Collection
- Language of Item
- English
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 43.9291884747844 Longitude: -78.9816754752349
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- Copyright Statement
- Public domain: Copyright has expired according to Canadian copyright law. No restrictions on use.
- Recommended Citation
- Devil's Den, August 1, 1938, Marjorie Ruddy. Whitby Archives A2013_040_759C.
- Reproduction Notes
- Scanned from a black and white negative.
- Contact
- Whitby Public LibraryEmail:archives@whitbylibrary.ca
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