Mayor Fred Rowe
- Publication
- Whitby Gazette and Chronicle, 9 March 1938
Description
- Creator
- Graydon M. Goodfellow, Publisher
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Types
- Negatives
- Photographs
- Description
- Black and white negative of a photograph of Mayor Fred Rowe seated at a desk in the new telephone exchange building in Whitby. He is making the first phone call on a dial telephone.
The plaque on the photographs reads: His Worship Mayor F.T. Rowe/Placing first dial call/Whitby exchange March 9th, 1938. - Notes
- Fred T. Rowe (1873-1959) was mayor of Whitby from 1938-1944. On 9 March 1938 he placed the first dial telephone call in Whitby to Albert W. Jackson, the town Reeve.
The telephone exchange building was constructed between 1937-1938 on the west side of Brock Street between Colbourne and Dunlop Streets. - Date of Original
- 9 March 1938
- Date Of Event
- 9 March 1938
- Image Dimensions
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Image Width: 6cm
Image Height: 6cm
- Subject(s)
- Local identifier
- 08-001-001
- Collection
- Whitby Online Historic Images Collection
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 43.8780978742517 Longitude: -78.9420890808105
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- Copyright Statement
- Public domain: Copyright has expired according to Canadian copyright law. No restrictions on use.
- Recommended Citation
- Whitby Archives
- Reproduction Notes
- Scanned from copy negative.
- Contact
- Whitby Public LibraryEmail:archives@whitbylibrary.ca
Website:
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