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Part of Kaufman Family collection.
A. R. Kaufman’s official documentation. Includes passport for the years 1971 and 1976 with stamps for Canada’s customs and the United Kingdom with two photographs and a photocopy of the birth certificate; his birth certificate in the form of a card issued in 1971; and a photocopy of his birth registration.
Kaufman, A. R. (Alvin Ratz)
Products : Catalogues : Other Companies
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Series consists of catalogues and price lists for clothing and footwear products produced by companies other than Kaufman, printed between 1921 and 1971.
Kaufman Footwear
Kitchener-Waterloo Hospital : Property Committee.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
W.H. Kaufman's file relating to his work as the Chair of the Property Committee of the Kitchener-Waterloo Hospital. Contains one Nominating Committee report dated Dec. 5, 1989.
Kaufman, William Hutton
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
File consists of rejected and accepted proposals submitted to the William H. Kaufman Charitable Foundation.
Kaufman Family
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
File consists of diagrams for various machinery at Kaufman Footwear.
Kaufman Footwear
K-R Ro-Search : written standard practice no. M-6 : electric circulating air oven.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains written standard practice for the electric circulating air oven. Includes blueprint drawings of the oven and its dimensions.
Kaufman Footwear
K.R. Ro-Search : written standard practice no. P-1.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Written standard practice for plastisol-coated cotton glove production. Includes equipment and material requirements, costs, methods, lay-out, and production results. Includes 22 photographs.
Kaufman Footwear
K-R Ro-Search : written standard practice no. P-1 : plastic coated fabric gloves.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains written standard practice for "Plastic coated fabric glove production equipment and material requirements, costs, methods, lay-out, and production results," by R.V. Klassen and W.H. Bechtel. Includes plastisol formula sheets, and 19 photographs.
Kaufman Footwear
K.R. Ro-Search : written standard practice no. P-2.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Written standard practice for vinyl footwear production (showertog) by a slush moulding process using vinyl plastisols. Includes equipment and material requirements, costs, methods, lay-out, and production results for showertog type footwear. Includes 54 photographs.
Kaufman Footwear
K.R. Ro-Search : written standard practice no. P-3.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Written standard practice for electroforming of copper moulds for use in vinyl footwear production. Includes 11 photographs.
Kaufman Footwear
K-R Ro-Search : written standard practice no. P-3 : electroforming of copper moulds.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains written standard practice for "Electroforming of copper moulds for use in vinyl footwear production," by R.V. Klassen and W.H. Bechtel.
Kaufman Footwear
K.R. Ro-Search : written standard practice no. P-5.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Written standard practice for snowbells shell production and preparation. Includes written standard practice for insertion of sock on "women's iceland", "women's alaska", and "women's suburban". Includes 13 photographs.
Kaufman Footwear
K-R Ro-Search : written standard practice no. P-5 : Snowbelle shell production and preparation.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains written standard practice for "Snowbelle shell production and preparation," by R.V. Klassen. Includes 13 photographs and some blueprint drawings of machinery.
Kaufman Footwear
K-R Ro-Search : written standard practice no. P-6 : supplement A.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains written standard practice for "Showertog production and sequence of operations on K. R. unit #3. This pertains to shoes of the basic type known as Sprite except with heels requiring a built-in heel cup."
Kaufman Footwear
K-R Ro-Search : written standard practice no. P-6 : supplement B.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains written standard practice for "Plastic footwear production and sequence of operations on K. R. unit #3. This pertains to shoes of the basic type known as Snowbelles, i.e., with reinforced counter and insole built in." Includes 5 photographs.
Kaufman Footwear
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
File consists of one machinery inventory list created by Gary Peysar before Kaufman Footwear went bankrupt.
Kaufman Footwear
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
News related to A. R. Kaufman's retirement. Includes newspaper clippings and photocopies of clippings.
Kaufman, A. R. (Alvin Ratz)
Products : Catalogues : Retailers
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Series consists of catalogues and price lists issued by retailers such as Eddie Bauer and L.L. Bean, whose stock included Kaufman footwear products.
Kaufman Footwear
Kaufman, A.R. : Kitchener Planning Commission.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Essay by Wendy Martindale, April 1975, who used an interview with A.R. Kaufman as part of her research. A.R. Kaufman was on the Planning Commission from 1919 to 1927 and was Chairman from 1922 to 1927. Includes comments in Kaufman's hand.
Kaufman, A. R. (Alvin Ratz)
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains the tennis production report and the rubber production report. Includes lines of shoes or boots with the number of pairs sold and what countries they were sold in.
Kaufman Footwear
Kitchener-Waterloo Hospital : Property Committee.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
W.H. Kaufman's file relating to his work as the Chair of the Property Committee of the Kitchener-Waterloo Hospital. File contains a cover letter, the Master Plan Report and Executive Summary by Ziedler Roberts Partnership, Architects, for K-W Hospital.
Kaufman, William Hutton
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
File consists of rejected and accepted proposals submitted to the William H. Kaufman Charitable Foundation.
Kaufman Family
K-R Ro-Search : written standard practice no. R-2 : William's plasticity.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains written standard practice for "Plasticity and recovery of rubber and rubber-like materials by the Williams Parallel Plate Plastometer at K. R. Co.," by G.H. Thompson and W.H. Bechtel. Includes 12 photographs and some 4 graphs.
Kaufman Footwear
K-R Ro-Search : written standard practice no. R-3 : N.B.S. abrasion.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains written standard practice for a "Standard method of test for abrasion resistance of rubber compounds at K.R. Co.," by G.H. Thompson and William H. Bechtel. Includes 5 photographs.
Kaufman Footwear
K-R Ro-Search : written standard practice no. R-4 : the use of GR-S in rubber footwear.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains written standard practice for the use of GR-S in rubber footwear with general information and compounding information, by William H. Bechtel.
Kaufman Footwear
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains instructions for handling, spreading and calendar coating of nets or knitted fabrics, by W.H. Bechtel.
Kaufman Footwear
K.R. Ro-Search : written standard practice no. V-1.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Written standard practice for vinyl compounding materials.
Kaufman Footwear
K.R. Ro-Search : written standard practice no. V-1.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Written standard practice for vinyl compounding material, plastisol formula sheet for red plastisol for boots, and plastisol compound sheets with 15 plastisol samples.
Kaufman Footwear
K-R Ro-Search : written standard practice no. VA-1 : footwear varnish.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains written standard practice: "The manufacture of black rubber footwear varnish," by W.H. Bechtel. Includes 66 photographs.
Kaufman Footwear
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains information on electroforming of copper molds, slush molding of shoes, development of plastisols, and clear plastic rainboot types.
Kaufman Footwear
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains information on the following : cement house instructions, preparation of silk screen inks, lacquer specifications, notes on linseed oils, miscellaneous formulations, silicone specifications, and touch-up paint. Sheets initialled by W.H.B. (William H. Bechtel).
Kaufman Footwear
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains compound sheets with a list of the materials used for the compound and the total cost of the compound. Sheets initialled by W.H.B. (William H. Bechtel) and/or J.C.H. (J.C. Howard).
Kaufman Footwear
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains compound sheets with a list of the materials used for the compound and the total cost of the compound. Sheets initialled by W.H.B. (William H. Bechtel) and/or J.C.H. (J.C. Howard).
Kaufman Footwear
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Materials related to the medal commemorating the Silver Jubilee of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth II. Includes medal, with the case, information about the medal, and certificate awarding the medal to A. R. Kaufman.
Kaufman, A. R. (Alvin Ratz)
Products : Catalogues : Splashguards
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Series consists of catalogues and price lists for Kaufman Splashguards, manufactured for trucks.
Kaufman Footwear
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
File consists of a list of goals for the maintenance department of Kaufman Footwear for the year 1998.
Kaufman Footwear
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains the tennis production report and the rubber production report. Includes lines of shoes or boots with the number of pairs sold and what countries they were sold in.
Kaufman Footwear
Kaufman, A.R. and William H. Kaufman.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Kaufman, William Hutton
Kaufman, A.R. : Kitchener-Waterloo and Suburban Planning Board.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Consists of a letter of appreciation from the Board to A.R. Kaufman on the occasion of the dissolution of the Board. The official seal of the Board was used for the last time on this letter.
Kaufman, A. R. (Alvin Ratz)
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
File consists of rejected and accepted proposals submitted to the William H. Kaufman Charitable Foundation.
Kaufman Family
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains compound sheets with a list of the materials used for the compound and the total cost of the compound, signed J.C. Howard.
Kaufman Footwear
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains compound sheets with a list of the materials used for the compound and the total cost of the compound, signed J.C. Howard.
Kaufman Footwear
Obsolete foam tread compound binder.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains compound sheets for the obsolete foam tread, with a list of the materials used for the compound and the total cost of the compound on each sheet, all signed "W.H.B." Originally in a binder belonging to W.H. Bechtel.
Kaufman Footwear
Plastisol formula specification sheets.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains plastisol formula specifications and compound sheets for various forms of plastisol. R.V. Klassen's factory binder.
Kaufman Footwear
Pleating of pockets into vinyl shoes by means of heat.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains instructions for pleating of pockets into vinyl shoes with illustrations.
Kaufman Footwear
Regular O[pen] H[eat] compounds, #1-79.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains compound sheets with a list of the materials used for the compound and the total cost of the compound, signed J.C. Howard. J.C. Howard's binder.
Kaufman Footwear
Ro-Search confidential rubber compounds.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains compound sheets for confidential technical data with a list of the materials used for the compound. By Ro-Search Inc., Waynesville, North Carolina.
Kaufman Footwear
Testing and analysis of rubber procedures.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains procedures for abrasion testing of raincoat materials using the Taber Abraser; chemical analysis of rubber products and interpretation of analysis; process for adhesion tests; tests for cements and fabrics; various cleaning and testing processes for glass and copper; instructions for mixing emulsion, testing cork, vulcanized rubber, and gasoline as well as preparing sulfur and silk screen inks. Also includes colour bleeding tests for leather, and instructions for mixing plastisol.
Kaufman Footwear
Written Standard Practice drawings : P-2-25-a to P-2-25-P11 : automatic mould aligner.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains parts lists and blueprints of drawings of machinery and parts lists for the automatic mould aligner.
Kaufman Footwear
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains 12 drawings of the Adamson mixing mill describing construction.
Kaufman Footwear
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Kaufman Footwear
Kaufman, A.R. : Kitchener-Waterloo YMCA.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Photocopy of "Report of the President, May 12th, 1921." In this report A.R. Kaufman, outgoing president of the provisional Board of directors, summarizes two years of activity re-organizing the YMCA .
Kaufman, A. R. (Alvin Ratz)
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
File consists of rejected and accepted proposals submitted to the William H. Kaufman Charitable Foundation.
Kaufman Family
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains the tennis production report and the rubber production report. Includes lines of shoes or boots with the number of pairs sold and what countries they were sold in.
Kaufman Footwear
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Kaufman, William Hutton
Maintenance report : Glasgow boilers.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
File consists of a maintenance report on heating boilers at the Glasgow
Kaufman Footwear
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Materials related to A. R. Kaufman’s passing. Includes newspaper clippings with obituaries and articles about him, and a funeral guest book. The guest book lists the pallbearers as: Wilfred X. Toole, Irvin E. Weber, Gerald Marr, Carl Schlote, C. D. Pequegnat and Harold Current.
Kaufman, A. R. (Alvin Ratz)
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Series consists of printed ephemera including stationery.
Kaufman Footwear
Written standard practice no. P-6 : Showertog production.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains written standard practice for "Showertog production and sequence of operations on K.R. unit #3. This pertains to shoes of the basic type known as Sprite flat," by W.H. Bechtel.
Kaufman Footwear
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
File belonging to Brent I. Weber. Contains clippings and photocopies of business related articles to be read by Kaufman staff.
Kaufman Footwear
Business articles and periodicals (file 1 of 6).
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains a) business articles, b) footwear articles, c) issues of footwear periodicals. Also includes some production tools such as tax guides and metric conversion tools.
Kaufman Footwear
Business articles and magazines (file 2 of 6).
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Kaufman Footwear
Business articles and magazines (file 3 of 6).
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Kaufman Footwear
Business articles and magazines (file 4 of 6).
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Kaufman Footwear
Business articles and magazines (file 5 of 6).
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Kaufman Footwear
Business articles and magazines (file 6 of 6).
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Kaufman Footwear
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Brent I. Weber's file.
Kaufman Footwear
Production control, Brent Weber.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains the master production plan for 1993. Includes production forecasts for Foamtread Casuals; Desmas; loose felt pacs; waterproof footwear; waterproof industrial footwear; Mudwalkers; Sorels; Batavia Sorels; TPR Sorels; Autoclave Sorels; UTI/TR Sorels; PVC Sorels; Jiffys; waterproof clothing; Kingtreads; Foamtread slippers; Sorel cement sport boots; Sorel Ultra injection boots; loose insoles; Defroster cements; Black Diamond steel toed boots; Sorel Laurentians; and the shipping program.
Kaufman Footwear
Bottom : TPR : vinaflex : Galaxy.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains material relating to the bottom of the men's TPR, and Galaxy shoes. Includes correspondence to and from I.E. Weber, memoranda regarding the Galaxy and TPR bottoms, production and manufacturing details, sizing information, invoices, notes, drawings of moulds, advertisement clippings, Maple Leaf Shoe catalogue, and 3 photographs.
Kaufman Footwear
Compound sheets and notes from J.C.H.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains compound sheets with a list of the materials used for the compound and the total cost of the compound. Includes notes by J.C. Howard. Originally in a binder labelled "I. Weber".
Kaufman Footwear
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains compound sheets with a list of the materials used for the compound and the total cost of the compound. Originally in a binder belonging to I. Weber. Pages not initialled.
Kaufman Footwear
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Binder belonging to I.E. Weber, Vice-President, Manufacturing. Contains compound sheets with a list of the materials used for the compound and the total cost of the compound. These are all initialled "W.H.B." (W.H. Bechtel, Laboratory).
Kaufman Footwear
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Binder belonging to I.E. Weber, Vice-President, Manufacturing. Contains compound sheets with a list of the materials used for the compound and the total cost of the compound. These are all initialled "W.H.B." (W.H. Bechtel, Laboratory).
Kaufman Footwear
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Kaufman, A. R. (Alvin Ratz)
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains the tennis production report and the rubber production report. Includes lines of shoes or boots with the number of pairs sold and what countries they were sold in.
Kaufman Footwear
Postcards of the Great Pyramid of Giza.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Seven postcards of the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt with annotations about the trip and an envelope.
Kaufman, A. R. (Alvin Ratz)
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Kaufman, William Hutton
IODE baby think it over project.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
File consists of materials relating to the IODE "Baby Think it Over" project. This project involves giving "real doll" babies to high school students to help them learn parenting skills. The program was partially funded by the William H. Kaufman Charitable Foundation.
Kaufman Family
Memorandum regarding working conditions for Christmas shutdown.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
File consists of a memorandum prepared by Gary Peysar regarding the maintenance working conditions during the Christmas shutdown.
Kaufman Footwear
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Series consists of photographs originally contained in a photograph album created to demonstrate the activities of the Kaufman Rubber Co. Limited. It includes photographs of the general offices and production departments.
Kaufman Footwear
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Series consists of photographs including or taken by A.R. Kaufman between 1915 and 1930. Also includes a formal portrait of A.R. taken in the 1960's.
Kaufman Footwear
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Series consists of formal group portraits of employees taken beteen 1912 and 1928, as well as photographs and slides at staff recognition events such as milestone nights, and retirements from the 1960's to the 1990's.
Kaufman Footwear
Photographs : Employees : Social and Sports
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Series consists of group portraits of Kaufaman Baseball and hockey teams from the 1920's to the 1990's, as well as candid shots of sports and social events such as picnics.
Kaufman Footwear
Photographs : Employees Working
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Series consists of photographs of employees at work in the Kaufman factory.
Kaufman Footwear
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Series consists of photographs taken as publicity to document significant Kaufman Footwear events.
Kaufman Footwear
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Series consists of photographs of the Kaufman Footwear plant on King St. in Kitchener, Ontario as well as other plants and facilities owned by Kaufman. Includes exterior and interior views.
Kaufman Footwear
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Series consists of photographs documenting manufacturing operations at Kaufman Footwear, taken for use in the "Written Standard Practice" manuals.
Kaufman Footwear
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Series consists of photographs featuring Kaufman products, taken for publicity purposes.
Kaufman Footwear
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Binder belonging to I.E. Weber, Vice-President, Manufacturing. Contains compound sheets with a list of the materials used for the compound and the total cost of the compound. These are all initialled "W.H.B." (W.H. Bechtel, Laboratory).
Kaufman Footwear
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains material relating to the Desma 721-12 station rotary automatic bottoming machine for the direct injection of one-colour soles from thermoplastic materials to shoe uppers. Includes ordering information, payments, shipping, discussions about use of machinery, memoranda regarding production and machinery, newspaper clipping on machine, and correspondence to I.E. Weber.
Kaufman Footwear
Factory memo binder (file 1 of 2).
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Binder labelled "I. Weber". Contains Kaufman footwear office memos relating to various factory and office issues including information on floor plans, parts, machinery, materials and other issues, arranged alphabetically by topic.
Kaufman Footwear
Factory memo binder (file 2 of 2).
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Binder labelled "I. Weber". Contains Kaufman footwear office memos relating to various factory and office issues including information on floor plans, parts, machinery, materials and other issues, arranged alphabetically by topic.
Kaufman Footwear
Foamtread and process-82 compounds : I.E. Weber (file 1 of 2).
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains compound sheets with a list of the materials used for the compound and the total cost of the compound. Originally in a binder belonging to I.E. Weber, Vice-President Manufacturing. Each page is initialled "W.H.B." (William H. Bechtel).
Kaufman Footwear
Foamtread and process-82 compounds : I.E. Weber (file 2 of 2).
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains compound sheets with a list of the materials used for the compound and the total cost of the compound. Originally in a binder belonging to I.E. Weber, Vice-President Manufacturing. Each page is initialled "W.H.B." (William H. Bechtel).
Kaufman Footwear
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains material relating to the Men's I-45 loafer. Includes information on the factory outlet manager's wages, a development schedule for various styles of shoes, sales distribution statistics for men's leather casuals, memoranda regarding cost, production and manufacturing of the I-45 moulds, and injection footwear.
Kaufman Footwear
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains material relating to manufacturing and production of boots. Includes memoranda regarding the production, dimensions and moulds of injection Arctic Pacs and Otters. Includes rubber samples, correspondence to and from I.E. Weber, marketing goals for injection Arctic Pacs, and newspaper advertisement clippings.
Kaufman Footwear
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains 102 rubber labels, organized alphabetically. Originally in a binder belonging to I.E. Weber, Vice-President Manufacturing.
Kaufman Footwear
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains 102 rubber labels, organized alphabetically. Originally in a binder belonging to I.E. Weber, Vice-President Manufacturing.
Kaufman Footwear
Master batch compounds : I.E. Weber.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains master batch compound sheets with a list of the materials used for the compound and the total cost of the compound. Originally in a binder belonging to I.E. Weber, Vice-President Manufacturing. Each page is initialled "W.H.B." (William H. Bechtel).
Kaufman Footwear
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains material relating to marketing and management leadership strategies. Includes workshop and conference information, photocopies of business related articles, newspaper clippings, a memorandum outlining the marketing strategies for Oomphie shoes, statistics and surveys relating to the footwear business.
Kaufman Footwear