Red Wing Orchards, October 14, 1950

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Creator

Marjorie Ruddy, Photographer

Media Type

Image

Item Type

Negatives

Description

A black and white large format negative of an unidentified woman standing high on a ladder picking apples at Red Wing Orchards.

Notes

G. Norman Irwin (1903-1983) was owner and operator of Red Wing Orchards located at Highway 2 and Lakeridge Road from the late 1920s until 1983. His residence at the orchard was known as Stonehaven. Red Wing Orchards got its name from G. Norman Irwin's plane which had red wings. The orchard is currently Highland Farms, Ajax.

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

14 October 1950

Dimensions

Width: 4 in
Height: 3 in

Subject(s)

Airplanes
Apples
Harvesting
Orchards
Parties
Portrait prints

Personal Name(s)

Ruddy, Marjorie ; Irwin, G. Norman ; Irwin, Kathleen

Corporate Name(s)

Red Wing Orchards

Local identifier

A2013_040_230

Collection

Whitby Online Historic Images Collection

Geographic Coverage

Ajax

Ontario, Canada

Latitude: 43.8705425738872 Longitude: -78.9908229626465

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