David and Marilyn at Prom, Late 1940s

David and Marilyn met in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1948 when he was 17 years old, and she was a few years younger. This photograph is from Marilyn's high school prom. They married in 1952. Halifax, late 1940s. (David Mark Family Collection)

Black-and-white photograph of a young man and woman standing and smiling together indoors, in front of a mirror. The woman wears a formal long, light-coloured gown with a purse, and the man wears a suit.