Bell Telephone Truck at Subway Flood, July 17, 1951

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Creator

Marjorie Ruddy, Photographer

Media Type

Image

Item Type

Negatives

Description

A black and white large format negative of a Bell Telephone truck stuck in flood water under a bridge by the Subway Trailer Camp. In this view a tow truck is pulling the Bell Telephone truck out of the flood water.

Notes

The subway trailer camp is located on the north side of Dundas Street at 1010 Dundas Street East. It is immediately east of the "subway" where the CPR crosses Dundas Street, near Anderson Street. It was established as a camping and tourist ground in the 1920s or 1930s and became a trailer camp in the 1950s.

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

17 July 1951

Dimensions

Width: 4 in
Height: 3 in

Subject(s)

Bridges
Floods
Mobile homes
Portrait prints
Public utility companies

Personal Name(s)

Ruddy, Marjorie

Corporate Name(s)

Bell Telephone

Local identifier

A2013_040_240

Collection

Whitby Online Historic Images Collection

Geographic Coverage

Whitby

Ontario, Canada

Latitude: 43.8833813358515 Longitude: -78.9266499572944

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