Corbett Stiner, March 23, 1939

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Creator

Marjorie Ruddy, Photographer

Media Type

Image

Item Type

Negatives

Description

A black and white negative of a portrait photograph of Corbett (Corb) Stiner taken in front of Lakeside Motors on March 23, 1939 in Whitby, Ontario.

Notes

Corbett (Corb) Henry Stiner was born on 18 August 1894 in Uxbridge, Ontario. He married Grace Marion Collacutt (1902-1973) in 1920 in Whitby, Ontario. They had one daughter, Judith Lynda Stiner. He owned and operator a car dealership in Whitby and was a veteran of the first world war serving overseas with the 116th Battalion. Mr. Stiner died on 23 March 1963 and 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

23 March 1939

Dimensions

Width: 1.5 in
Height: 1.5 in

Subject(s)

Automobile dealerships
Automobiles
Business districts
Men
Portrait photographs

Personal Name(s)

Ruddy, Marjorie Ruddy ; Stiner, Corbett (Corb)

Local identifier

A2013_040_870B

Collection

Whitby Online Historic Photographs Collection

Language of Item

English

Geographic Coverage

Whitby

Ontario, Canada

Latitude: 43.8792209268515 Longitude: -78.9445429736328

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This item is protected by the Canadian Copyright Act and is intended for one-time use only. Uses other than research or private study require the permission of the rightsholder(s). It is your responsibility for obtaining these permissions.

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