Making Ammunition Boxes at Brunton Lumber Company, c.1942
Description
- Mystery Question
- Can you help us to identify the woman in this photograph?[Please answer by clicking on the Comments tab]
- Creator
- Unknown, Photographer
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Type
- Photographs
- Description
- A black and white photograph of an unidentified woman making boxes at Brunton Lumber Company.
- Notes
- The Brunton Lumber Company was built at Whitby Harbor in 1941. The company manufactured ammunition boxes for Defense Industries Limited in Ajax during the Second World War. Stacks of these ammunition boxes can be seen to the right and left of this picture. The company was later sold to General Mills and was destroyed by fire on February 8, 1951.
- Date of Original
- c.1942
- Dimensions
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Width: 3.5 cm
Height: 4 cm
- Image Dimensions
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Image Width: 3.5cm
Image Height: 4cm
- Subject(s)
- Local identifier
- 11-001-158
- Language of Item
- English
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 43.853888 Longitude: -78.936111
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- Copyright Statement
- Public domain: Copyright has expired according to Canadian copyright law. No restrictions on use.
- Reproduction Notes
- Scanned from original photograph. Copy negative on file.
- Contact
- Whitby Public LibraryEmail:archives@whitbylibrary.ca
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