Martin's Home Bakery Trucks and Wagon, August 4, 1939
Description
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- Creator
- Marjorie Ruddy, Photographer
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Type
- Negatives
- Description
- Black and white negative showing two of the the delivery trucks and a delivery wagon for Martin's Home Bakery. There is what appears to be a model wedding cake mounted on the front of the centre truck. The drivers are standing beside their truck or wagon. The men in the photograph are unidentified.
- Notes
- 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
- 4 August 1939
- Dimensions
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Width: 1.5 in
Height: 1.5 in
- Subject(s)
- Personal Name(s)
- Martin ; Ruddy, Marjorie Georgina
- Corporate Name(s)
- Martin's Home Bakery
- Local identifier
- A2013_040_760B
- Collection
- Whitby Online Historic Photographs Collection
- Language of Item
- English
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 43.8798937264374 Longitude: -78.9421826296997
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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
- Martin's Home Bakery Trucks and Wagon, August 4, 1939, Marjorie Ruddy. Whitby Archives A2014_040_760B.
- Reproduction Notes
- Scanned from a black and white negative.
- Contact
- Whitby Public LibraryEmail:archives@whitbylibrary.ca
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