Mrs. Isabella Anderson and Mrs. Sims, c.1939

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Creator

Marjorie Ruddy, Photographer

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Image

Item Type

Negatives

Description

A black and white negative of Mrs. Isabella Anderson and Mrs. Sims. Mrs. Anderson is sitting in a wheelchair in her doorway at 417 Byron Street South, Whitby. Mrs. Sims is on the right of the photograph. The negative envelope indicates the photograph was taken on April 23. No year is given.

Notes

Isabella (Cameron) Anderson was born in 1860. She married George Tocher Anderson (1856-1939) and they did not have any children. Mrs. Anderson died on 21 October 1945 in Oshawa, Ontario. She is buried in Mount Lawn Cemetery, Whitby, Ontario.

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

c.1939

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