Ontario County Jail
Description
- Creator
- George I. Wilson, Photographer
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Types
- Photographs
- Negatives
- Description
- Black and white negative of a photograph of the governor's residence and the brick wall which surrounded the Ontario County Jail. Governor Edmund Schiller (left) and Turnkey Frank Bryan stand in front of the building. A bricked-in doorway can be seen in the wall at right.
- Notes
- The Ontario County Jail was built in 1853 at the south-east corner of King and Gilbert Streets and demolished in February 1960. It was replaced by the new jail on Victoria Street in 1958.
Governor Schiller took over the jail in 1907. - Date of Original
- 1910
- Dimensions
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Width: 6 cm
Height: 6 cm
- Subject(s)
- Local identifier
- 07-002-001
- Collection
- Whitby Online Historic Images Collection
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 43.8758087089524 Longitude: -78.9442348480225
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- Copyright Statement
- Public domain: Copyright has expired according to Canadian copyright law. No restrictions on use.
- Recommended Citation
- Whitby Archives
- Reproduction Notes
- Scanned from copy negative.
- Contact
- Whitby Public LibraryEmail:archives@whitbylibrary.ca
Website:
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