Robert Wagstaff and Family, December 7, 1947
Description
- Mystery Question
- Can you identify the children in this photograph?[Please answer by clicking on the Comments tab]
- Creator
- Marjorie Ruddy, Photographer
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Type
- Negatives
- Description
- A black and white large format negative of Robert Wagstaff, his wife and their two children. In this view a young male child is sitting in a chair with a baby. Mrs. Wagstaff is to the right of the chair holding the baby. Mr. Wagstaff is sitting behind the chair with his arm around the chair and Mrs. Wagstaff.
- 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
- 7 December 1947
- Dimensions
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Width: 5 in
Height: 3 in
- Subject(s)
- Personal Name(s)
- Ruddy, Marjorie ; Wagstaff, Robert
- Local identifier
- A2013_040_457
- Collection
- Whitby Online Historic Images Collection
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 43.8798627932897 Longitude: -78.9421826296997
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- Creative Commons licence
[more details]- Copyright Statement
- Public domain: Copyright has expired according to Canadian copyright law. No restrictions on use.
- Recommended Citation
- Robert Wagstaff and Family, December 7, 1947, Marjorie Ruddy. Whitby Archives A2013_040_457.
- Reproduction Notes
- Scanned from a black and white large format negative.
- Contact
- Whitby Public LibraryEmail:archives@whitbylibrary.ca
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