Unidentified Children at Christmas, c.1945

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Creator

Marjorie Ruddy, Photographer

Media Type

Image

Item Type

Negatives

Description

Black and white negative of three unidentified children standing in front of a Christmas tree with their arms at their sides. They are arranged from smallest to tallest.

Notes

This negative was part of a negative strip that was found rolled up in a wooden box without any identification of the people or places in the photographs. Written on the wooden box: Marjorie Ruddy negs 45 each.

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.1945

Dimensions

Width: 1.5 in
Height: 1.5 in

Subject(s)

Children
Christmas trees
Men
Photographers
Women

Personal Name(s)

Ruddy, Marjorie Georgina,

Local identifier

A2013_040_857K

Collection

Whitby Online Historic Photograhps Collection

Language of Item

English

Geographic Coverage

Whitby

Ontario, Canada

Latitude: 43.8792131934788 Longitude: -78.9421397143554

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