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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

Written Standard Practice drawings : P-2-25-a to P-2-25-P11 : automatic mould aligner.

SCA173-GA148-10-177
File
1960

Part of Kaufman Family collection.

Contains parts lists and blueprints of drawings of machinery and parts lists for the automatic mould aligner.

Kaufman Footwear

Compounds : 500-1000.

SCA173-GA148-12-190
File
1943-1960

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

Super quality waterproof footwear, Foamtread house shoes, 1960-1961.

SCA173-GA148-14-395
File
1960

Part of Kaufman Family collection.

Kaufman Footwear

Qualite superieure : chaussures impermeables, Foamtread souliers de maison, 1960-1961.

SCA173-GA148-14-396
File
1960

Part of Kaufman Family collection.

Kaufman Footwear

Meisel, Pearl : retirement from Accounts Receivable, 1960.

SCA173-GA148-19.3-637
File
1960

Part of Kaufman Family collection.

Photograph of Pearl Meisel at a desk, next to a flower arrangement, on her retirement from Accounts Receivable.

Kaufman Footwear

K-R Ro-Search : written standard practice no. P-5 : Snowbelle shell production and preparation.

SCA173-GA148-10-157
File
1960

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

Photographs taken for written standard practice reports : extra Showertog pictures not used, August 1960.

SCA173-GA148-19.8-724
File
1960

Part of Kaufman Family collection.

Contains photographs depicting the Showertog making process and machinery. Includes several unidentified females. Includes identification of process steps and machinery on envelope: a) large pump, b) squeeze bottle use, c) reinforcing high heel, d) turntable, head of #3, e) unit #3 drain, f) squeeze bottle use, g) large [illedgible], h) stripping Snowbelle, i) draining Snowbelle and first fill.

Kaufman Footwear

Strike, 1960 : correspondence with Union and to employees.

SCA173-GA148-3-56
File
1959-1960

Part of Kaufman Family collection.

Contains material relating to the 1960 strike : A.R. Kaufman's file. Includes correspondece with the Union, the Department of Labour, and to employees. Includes copies of the Labour Relations Act prosecution against Kaufman Rubber Co. Limited, and Supreme Court records.

Kaufman Footwear

Strike, 1960 : local 88 injunction evidence.

SCA173-GA148-3-57
File
1960

Part of Kaufman Family collection.

Contains material relating to the 1960 strike injunction evidence. Includes supreme court records, copies of the injunction, and affidavits. A.R. Kaufman's file.

Kaufman Footwear

Pleating of pockets into vinyl shoes by means of heat.

SCA173-GA148-10-173
File
1959-1960

Part of Kaufman Family collection.

Contains instructions for pleating of pockets into vinyl shoes with illustrations.

Kaufman Footwear

Photographs taken for written standard practice reports : prints and negatives regarding plating.

SCA173-GA148-19.8-725
File
1960

Part of Kaufman Family collection.

Contains one negative and photograph of what is identified on the envelope as a rectifier, rheostat and tank and are associated with report P-3.

Kaufman Footwear

Photographs taken for written standard practice reports : Snowbelle production, production of shells and preparation.

SCA173-GA148-19.8-726
File
1960

Part of Kaufman Family collection.

Contains fourteen negative and one photograph of the production of Snowbelle boots. Includes machinery and women at work on various stages of the boot. Identified on an accompanying card as related to report number P-5.

Kaufman Footwear

Picnics : Kaufman Rubber Co. company picnic.

SCA173-GA148-19.4-667
File
[195-?]

Part of Kaufman Family collection.

Contains two snapshots of people eating and drinking at a company picnic. Eight unidentified males in one snapshot, and two unidentified males in the other.

Kaufman Footwear

Kaufman Footwear : King. St. plant : interior, 1950's.

SCA173-GA148-19.7-693
File
[195-?]

Part of Kaufman Family collection.

Contains one photograph of the interior of the Kaufman Rubber Co., Limited factory with a view of various types of machinery.

Kaufman Footwear

Photographs taken for written standard practice reports : C.D. Quinn photographs.

SCA173-GA148-19.8-709
File
[195-?]

Part of Kaufman Family collection.

Contains photographs and negatives of processes, machinery, and equipment. Includes identification of a "thermal insulation test photo" and "extra pictures taken but not used in Showertog report". Also includes several unidentified employees at work.

Kaufman Footwear

Photographs taken for written standard practice reports : photographer possibly C.D. Quinn.

SCA173-GA148-19.8-712
File
[195-?]

Part of Kaufman Family collection.

Contains photographs and negatives of machinery and processes in the Kaufman Rubber Co. factory. Includes identification of some photographs as "flexing pictures", "plasticity pictures", and "abrasion pictures". Includes unidentified employees at work.

Kaufman Footwear

Super quality vulcanized rubber and neoprene clothing, rubber footwear, canvas footwear, plastic coated gloves : price list, May 1st, 1959.

SCA173-GA148-14-388
File
1959

Part of Kaufman Family collection.

Kaufman Footwear

K-R Ro-Search : written standard practice no. M-6 : electric circulating air oven.

SCA173-GA148-10-150
File
1959

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. V-1.

SCA173-GA148-10-164
File
[195-?]

Part of Kaufman Family collection.

Written standard practice for vinyl compounding materials.

Kaufman Footwear

Photographs taken for written standard practice reports.

SCA173-GA148-19.8-708
File
[195-?]

Part of Kaufman Family collection.

Contains two photographs of unidentified equipment, perhaps holding tanks.

Kaufman Footwear

Photographs taken for written standard practice reports : not yet used in a report (double slush system).

SCA173-GA148-19.8-711
File
[195-?]

Part of Kaufman Family collection.

Contains five negatives on (as stated on the envelope) flocking arrangements, air cylinder puller [?], slush lining turntable, and chromalox final set unit.

Kaufman Footwear

Advertisements : paste-ups.

SCA173-GA148-13-210
File
1959

Part of Kaufman Family collection.

Contains 1 paste-up advertisement for the High Overall boot.

Kaufman Footwear

Super quality vulcanized rubber clothing, industrial waterproof footwear.

SCA173-GA148-14-394
File
[195-?]

Part of Kaufman Family collection.

Kaufman Footwear

Super quality vulcanized rubber and neoprene clothing, rubber footwear, canvas footwear, plastic coated gloves : price list, August 1st, 1959.

SCA173-GA148-14-389
File
1959

Part of Kaufman Family collection.

Kaufman Footwear

Qualité supérieure : chaussures imperméables et "Foamtread" souliers de maison, 1959-1960.

SCA173-GA148-14-391
File
1959

Part of Kaufman Family collection.

Kaufman Footwear

Foamtread casuals.

SCA173-GA148-14-392
File
[195-?]

Part of Kaufman Family collection.

Kaufman Footwear

Stationery.

SCA173-GA148-18-610
File
[195-?]

Part of Kaufman Family collection.

3 envelopes with advertisements on them.

Kaufman Footwear

Photographs taken for written standard practice reports : negatives of pictures sent to Marathon.

SCA173-GA148-19.8-710
File
[195-?]

Part of Kaufman Family collection.

Contains five negatives of photographs of factory machinery and processes. Negatives are identified on the envelope as photographs of the process of double slushing, the final set, the lining set, and the flocking unit.

Kaufman Footwear

Correspondence.

SCA173-GA148-7-82
File
1952-1959

Part of Kaufman Family collection.

Contains correspondence to J.S.C. Moffitt from Kaufman Rubber Co. regarding sales. Also includes correspondence to Kaufman Rubber Co. regarding machinery. Includes 6 photographs of Guix machinery.

Kaufman Footwear

Photo handbook.

SCA173-GA148-19.8-707
File
[195-]

Part of Kaufman Family collection.

Contains 206 photographs of various footwear making processes, corresponding to written standard practice numbers. Some photographs are missing, and some were never pasted into the binder.

Kaufman Footwear

Aqualite : Announcing Aqualite waterproof clothing by Kaufman.

SCA173-GA148-13-215
File
[195-?]

Part of Kaufman Family collection.

Kaufman Footwear

Super quality waterproof footwear and Foamtread house shoes, 1959-1960.

SCA173-GA148-14-390
File
1959

Part of Kaufman Family collection.

Kaufman Footwear

Kaufman Foamtreads : in-stock lines.

SCA173-GA148-14-393
File
[195-?]

Part of Kaufman Family collection.

Kaufman Footwear

Super quality waterproof footwear and Foamtread house shoes, 1958-1959.

SCA173-GA148-14-387
File
1958

Part of Kaufman Family collection.

Kaufman Footwear

K.R. Ro-Search report #47 (revised) : neoprene footwear.

SCA173-GA148-10-144
File
1958

Part of Kaufman Family collection.

Contains revised report on neoprene footwear. Includes instructions for building men's black neoprene fraser short, and compound sheets.

Kaufman Footwear

K.R. Ro-Search report #49 : equipment requirements for production of 250 pair boots per 9 hour day based on average men's boot (Humber type).

SCA173-GA148-10-145
File
1958

Part of Kaufman Family collection.

Kaufman Footwear

Super quality vulcanized rubber and neoprene clothing, rubber footwear, plastic coated gloves : price list, May 1st, 1958.

SCA173-GA148-14-386
File
1958

Part of Kaufman Family collection.

Kaufman Footwear

Testing and analysis of rubber procedures.

SCA173-GA148-10-176
File
1953-1958

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

Compounds 200-220 : I.K. Weber.

SCA173-GA148-10-135
File
1928-1958

Part of Kaufman Family collection.

Contains compound sheets with a list on each sheet of the materials used for the compound and the total cost of the compound. Originally in a binder belonging to I.K. Weber. Each page is initialled by J.C. Howard.

Kaufman Footwear

Anniversaries : 50th.

SCA173-GA148-8-96
File
1957

Part of Kaufman Family collection.

Contains a newspaper clipping of an article about the 50th anniversary of the Kaufman Rubber Co., Limited and an anniversary crest.

Kaufman Footwear

Smith Transport Ltd. : system map.

SCA173-GA148-1-9
File
[1957?]

Part of Kaufman Family collection.

Kaufman Footwear

Super quality vulcanized rubber and neoprene clothing, rubber footwear, plastic coated gloves : price list, March 4th, 1957.

SCA173-GA148-14-383
File
1957

Part of Kaufman Family collection.

Kaufman Footwear

Super quality waterproof footwear and "Foamtread" house shoes, 1957-1958.

SCA173-GA148-14-384
File
1957

Part of Kaufman Family collection.

Kaufman Footwear

Qualité supérieure : chaussures imperméables et "Foamtread" souliers de maison, 1957-1958.

SCA173-GA148-14-385
File
1957

Part of Kaufman Family collection.

Kaufman Footwear

K.R. Ro-Search report #46 : procedure for obtaining installation costs for production of plastic shoes.

SCA173-GA148-10-143
File
1956

Part of Kaufman Family collection.

Note on folder "Procedure for obtaining installation costs for production of plastic shoes and minimum and maximum costs for plastic shoemaking installation."

Kaufman Footwear

K-R Ro-Search : written standard practice no. R-5 : handling, spreading and calender coating of nets.

SCA173-GA148-10-163
File
1956

Part of Kaufman Family collection.

Contains instructions for handling, spreading and calendar coating of nets or knitted fabrics, by W.H. Bechtel.

Kaufman Footwear

Kaufman Footwear : machine shop : Mike Mueller making plastic moulds.

SCA173-GA148-19.5-674
File
1956

Part of Kaufman Family collection.

Contains two modern print copy negatives and one modern reproduction photograph of Mike Mueller at work in the Kaufman Rubber Co., Limited factory.

Kaufman Footwear

Super quality vulcanized rubber clothing, rubber footwear, plastic coated gloves : price list, January 1, 1956.

SCA173-GA148-14-378
File
1956

Part of Kaufman Family collection.

Kaufman Footwear

Kaufman Foamtreads : Canada's finest house shoes.

SCA173-GA148-14-382
File
[1956]

Part of Kaufman Family collection.

Kaufman Footwear

Photographs taken for written standard practice reports : Showertog making conveyor.

SCA173-GA148-19.8-719
File
1956

Part of Kaufman Family collection.

Contains eight photographs and negatives of what is identified on the envelope as the "Showertog making conveyor (automatic dumping)". Also identified are a flame thrower activator and another piece of equipment that is identified as "large" but the rest of the description is not ledgible.

Kaufman Footwear

Kaufman Rubber Co. Ltd, Kitchener, Ont. : plot plan / Barnett & Rieder, Architects.

SCA173-GA148-23-784
File
1956

Part of Kaufman Family collection.

Contents:
Sheet 1: Plot plan, Nov. 1956, scale 1" to 40' (7 copies).

Kaufman Footwear

K.R. Ro-Search report #45 : equipment requirements : 1,000,000 pairs of footwear/year.

SCA173-GA148-10-142
File
1956

Part of Kaufman Family collection.

Note on folder: "Equipment requirements for 400,000 pairs of Buskins a year; 200,000 child's Welland per year; 250,000 of men's Humber per year; and 150,000 women's plastic Showertogs per year."

Kaufman Footwear

Super quality industrial rubber clothing, footwear and gloves : price list : June 1, 1956.

SCA173-GA148-14-379
File
1956

Part of Kaufman Family collection.

Kaufman Footwear

Super quality waterproof footwear and Foamtread house shoes, 1956-1957.

SCA173-GA148-14-380
File
1956

Part of Kaufman Family collection.

Kaufman Footwear

Chaussures imperméables et Foamtread souliers de maison, 1956-1957.

SCA173-GA148-14-381
File
1956

Part of Kaufman Family collection.

Kaufman Footwear

Year production reports.

SCA173-GA148-1-33
File
1954-1955

Part of Kaufman Family collection.

Contains a production report for the calendar year. Includes a list of product lines, with the number of products sold in the domestic market and as exports.

Kaufman Footwear

K.R. Ro-Search report #37 : transparent upper for boots.

SCA173-GA148-10-140
File
1955

Part of Kaufman Family collection.

Contains general compounding conclusions and remarks from development work on transparent gum upper for Bergougnan.

Kaufman Footwear

Written standard practice no. M-1 : apron mill : general description and construction of apron mill attachment.

SCA173-GA148-10-178
File
1955

Part of Kaufman Family collection.

Contains 12 drawings of the Adamson mixing mill describing construction.

Kaufman Footwear

K.R. Ro-Search report #35 : estimated machinery costs for 500 pair of men's and women's rubber Oxford per ten hours.

SCA173-GA148-10-139
File
1955

Part of Kaufman Family collection.

Kaufman Footwear

K.R. Ro-Search : written standard practice no. P-2.

SCA173-GA148-10-153
File
1955

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 : electroforming of copper moulds.

SCA173-GA148-10-155
File
1955

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. VA-1 : footwear varnish.

SCA173-GA148-10-166
File
1955

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

Photographs taken for written standard practice reports : glove plastisol mixing process.

SCA173-GA148-19.8-718
File
1955

Part of Kaufman Family collection.

Contains seven negatives depicting the glove plastisol mixing process. Includes an unidentified male.

Kaufman Footwear

Super quality industrial rubber clothing, footwear and gloves : price list : April 1, 1955.

SCA173-GA148-14-375
File
1955

Part of Kaufman Family collection.

Kaufman Footwear

Super quality industrial rubber clothing, footwear and gloves : price list : November 1, 1955.

SCA173-GA148-14-377
File
1955

Part of Kaufman Family collection.

Kaufman Footwear

K-R Ro-Search report #34 : material and times : women's Welland.

SCA173-GA148-10-138
File
1955

Part of Kaufman Family collection.

Note on folder: "material consumption and working times for women's welland boot size 6."

Kaufman Footwear

K.R. Ro-Search : written standard practice no. M-2 : footwear outsole press.

SCA173-GA148-10-147
File
1955

Part of Kaufman Family collection.

Note on folder "General description of outsole presses and use for footwear," by W.H. Bechtel. Includes 30 photographs.

Kaufman Footwear

K.R. Ro-Search : written standard practice no. P-3.

SCA173-GA148-10-154
File
1955

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 report #39 : examination of hamgaper compounds.

SCA173-GA148-10-141
File
1955

Part of Kaufman Family collection.

Contains examination of hamgaper compounds : black upper gum, black soling, and yellow soling. Includes tensile, aging, and abrasion tests, and a compound sheet.

Kaufman Footwear

K.R. Ro-Search : written standard practice no. M-4 : footwear vulcanizers etc.

SCA173-GA148-10-148
File
1955

Part of Kaufman Family collection.

Note on folder "Information about footwear vulcanizers, control instruments, air circulation, vent or vacuum cures, vulcanizer cars, etc., as applied to footwear curing, also curing cycles," by William H. Bechtel. Includes 18 photographs, and some blueprint drawings of machinery.

Kaufman Footwear

K-R Ro-Search : written standard practice no. M-5 : boot conveyors.

SCA173-GA148-10-149
File
1955

Part of Kaufman Family collection.

Contains written standard practice for the "Construction and operation of boot conveyors," by William H. Bechtel. Includes 6 photographs and some blueprint drawings of machinery.

Kaufman Footwear

K.R. Ro-Search : written standard practice no. P-1.

SCA173-GA148-10-151
File
1954-1955

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.

SCA173-GA148-10-152
File
1954-1955

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. R-2 : William's plasticity.

SCA173-GA148-10-160
File
1955

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.

SCA173-GA148-10-161
File
1955

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.

SCA173-GA148-10-162
File
1955

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

Super quality rubber footwear, 1955-1956.

SCA173-GA148-14-376
File
1955

Part of Kaufman Family collection.

Kaufman Footwear

Chaussures en caoutchouc de qualité supérieure, 1954-1955.

SCA173-GA148-14-371
File
1954

Part of Kaufman Family collection.

Kaufman Footwear

Super quality rubber footwear, 1954-1955.

SCA173-GA148-14-372
File
1954

Part of Kaufman Family collection.

Kaufman Footwear

Super quality industrial rubber clothing footwear and gloves : price list, December 1, 1954.

SCA173-GA148-14-373
File
1954

Part of Kaufman Family collection.

Kaufman Footwear

Kaufman Showertogs.

SCA173-GA148-14-374
File
[1954?]

Part of Kaufman Family collection.

Direct mail advertisements for Showertogs.

Kaufman Footwear

Year production reports.

SCA173-GA148-1-32
File
1953-1954

Part of Kaufman Family collection.

Contains a production report for the calendar year. Includes a list of product lines, with the number of products sold in the domestic market and as exports.

Kaufman Footwear

Photographs taken for written standard practice : new Showertog oven construction.

SCA173-GA148-19.8-713
File
1954

Part of Kaufman Family collection.

Contains three negatives of the construction of the Showertog oven. Includes two unidentified males.

Kaufman Footwear

Photographs taken for written standard practice reports : glove making negatives.

SCA173-GA148-19.8-714
File
1954

Part of Kaufman Family collection.

Contains nine negatives depicting the process of glove making. Includes one unidentified male.

Kaufman Footwear

Photographs taken for written standard practice reports : rubber clothing department.

SCA173-GA148-19.8-715
File
1954

Part of Kaufman Family collection.

Contains four negatives depicting the rubber clothing department with unidentified women at work.

Kaufman Footwear

Photographs taken for written standard practice reports : Showertog making negatives and photographs.

SCA173-GA148-19.8-716
File
1954

Part of Kaufman Family collection.

Contains three negatives and nineteen photographs of the Showertog making process. Includes unidentified employees performing these tasks. Also includes captions on each photograph describing the step in the process.

Kaufman Footwear

Photographs taken for written standard practice reports : Showertog unit operating equipment and accessories.

SCA173-GA148-19.8-717
File
1954

Part of Kaufman Family collection.

Contains photographs regarding written standard practice numbers P-2-34 to P-2-39 and M-6-4 to M-6-6. Showertog operating equipment and accessories represented in the photographs include mold carts, oven carts, a cooling fan, flame reinforcing units, a heel seat unit, oven control panel, fan mount and drive, and a frame hood.

Kaufman Footwear

Super quality industrial rubber clothing footwear and gloves : price list, March 1, 1954.

SCA173-GA148-14-370
File
1954

Part of Kaufman Family collection.

Kaufman Footwear

Factory memo binder (file 2 of 2).

SCA173-GA148-12-192b
File
1914-1953

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

Master batch compounds : I.E. Weber.

SCA173-GA148-12-197
File
1947-1953

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

Super quality industrial rubber clothing and footwear : price list, July 2, 1953.