Agricultural Trade Show, c.1947

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Creator

Marjorie Ruddy, Photographer

Media Type

Image

Item Type

Negatives

Description

Black and white negative of farm machinery on display at an Agricultural Trade Show. The sign on the side of the machine states "McCormick-Deering". Visible in the background are other McCormick-Deering farm machinery.

Notes

This negative was part of a negative strip that was found rolled up in a wooden box without any identification of the event or people in the photographs. Written on the wooden box: Marjorie Ruddy negs 45 each.

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.1947

Dimensions

Width: 1.5 in
Height: 1.5 in

Subject(s)

Agricultural machinery & implements
Agriculture
Exhibitions

Personal Name(s)

Ruddy, Marjorie

Corporate Name(s)

Beatty Bros.

Local identifier

A2013_040_841B

Collection

Whitby Online Historic Photographs Collection

Language of Item

English

Geographic Coverage

Whitby

Ontario, Canada

Latitude: 43.8798301571018 Longitude: -78.942174911499

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