W.A. Cormack Funeral Wreath, April 6, 1938

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Creator

Marjorie Ruddy, Photographer

Media Type

Image

Item Type

Negatives

Description

A black and white negative of a funeral wreath created by W.A. Cormack Florist Shop. There is a replica of a hockey stick in the centre of the floral arrangement.

Notes

William Alexander Cormack was born in Whitby, Ontario on 20 September 1904. He married Wilma Marion Hall on 24 May 1952 in Hamilton, 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

6 April 1938

Dimensions

Width: 1.5 in
Height: 1.5 in

Subject(s)

Florist shops
Flowers
Merchandise displays
Photographers

Personal Name(s)

Ruddy, Marjorie Georgina ; Cormack, William Alexander

Corporate Name(s)

W.A. Cormack Florist

Local identifier

A2013_040_976D

Collection

Whitby Online Historic Photographs Collection

Geographic Coverage

Whitby

Ontario, Canada

Latitude: 43.8797081273105 Longitude: -78.943148224945

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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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