Gerald and camera, c.1939
Description
- Creator
- Marjorie Ruddy, Photographer
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Type
- Negatives
- Description
- Black and white negative of Gerald looking out from under a sheet. He is kneeling behind a large camera in an inside doorway. The negative envelope does not provide a last name for Gerald or the date or place the photograph was taken.
- 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
- c.1939
- 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_812D
- Collection
- Whitby Online Historic Images Collection
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 43.8794606609085 Longitude: -78.9419680529785
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- Copyright Statement
- Public domain: Copyright has expired according to Canadian copyright law. No restrictions on use.
- Recommended Citation
- Gerald and camera, c.1939, Marjorie Ruddy. Whitby Archives A2013_040_812D.
- Reproduction Notes
- Scanned from a black and white negative.
- Contact
- Whitby Public LibraryEmail:archives@whitbylibrary.ca
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