Tent at Heydenshore Park, c.1906
Description
- Creator
- Unknown
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Types
- Photographs
- Negatives
- Description
- Black and white negative of a photograph showing an image of six girls holding open the entrance to a tent at Heydenshore Park. Tents were common for camping groups at Heydenshore Park in the early 1900s.
The woman standing on the chair is Edna Mathison and the woman seated at right is Marcia Ross. - Notes
- Heydenshore Park was a summer resort established around 1900 east of Whitby Harbour. A number of cottages were built there starting in 1900 and were demolished in 1965 when the private park was sold to the Whitby Public Utilities Commission. In 1971 Heydenshore Park was sold to the Town of Whitby.
- Date of Original
- c.1906
- Dimensions
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Width: 12.5 cm
Height: 11 cm
- Subject(s)
- Local identifier
- 12-001-030
- Collection
- Whitby Online Historic Photographs Collection
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 43.8491365480041 Longitude: -78.9134216308594
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- Creative Commons licence
[more details]- Copyright Statement
- Public domain: Copyright has expired according to Canadian copyright law. No restrictions on use.
- Recommended Citation
- Tent at Heydenshore Park, c.1906, unknown photographer, Whitby Archives, 12-001-030.
- Reproduction Notes
- Scanned from copy negative.
- Contact
- Whitby Public LibraryEmail:archives@whitbylibrary.ca
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