Wilson Baby, April 3, 1946

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Creator

Marjorie Ruddy, Photographer

Media Type

Image

Item Type

Negatives

Description

A black and white large format negative of Wanda Mae Wilson taken on April 3, 1946. In this view Wanda Mae is sitting on a table and looking forward. This negative has started to degrade.

Notes

Herbert John Kean (Jack) Wilson was born on 22 July 1911. He died in Whitby, Ontario on 8 April 1981 and is buried in Union Cemetery, Oshawa, Ontario. Chloe Isabelle (Effie) Gorsline Wilson was born in Bedford Mills, Ontario on 21 December 1910. She died in Oshawa, Ontario on 1 August 1992 and is buried in Union Cemetery. Jack and Effie had two children Wanda Mae and Margo Elaine.

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

3 April 1946

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