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Dominion Tire staff.

Photograph of two unidentified adults standing on the factory floor and looking at camera with faces partially obscured by sun. Person at right may be R.Y. Copland.

Dominion Rubber Company

Kabel, E.C. and Irene Bain.

Two copies of a photograph of the Dominion Tire factory office with E.C. Kabel and Irene Bain seated at desks and looking off camera. Kabel's desk has a variety of rubber tread samples on top.

Dominion Rubber Company

Dominion Tire staff.

Two copies of a photograph of Dominion Tire employees standing outdoors in a row and looking at camera. The group is seen dressed in coveralls. Includes identifications (left to right): Norm Peacey, Harold W. Knechtel, Byers, and Harry Coakley.

Dominion Rubber Company

Dominion Tire staff.

Two copies of a photograph of two unidentified Dominion Tire employees standing next to and leaning on a [box?] outdoors. Construction material and residential homes are visible in the background.

Dominion Rubber Company

Class Senior, Margaret Ave School.

Photograph of a school group of 42 children and an adult by the entrance of Margaret Avenue School.

According to annotations, one of the persons in photograph is Frieda Caroline Harris, and the class was Class Senior 3D with teacher Teacher J.F. Carmichael.

Breithaupt Hewetson Clark family

Facilities : Plant 2 : Victoria Street, Kitchener.

File consists of eight photographs of the Electrohome plant at 480 Victoria Street North in Kitchener (Plant 2). Includes aerial photographs, and a photograph of the construction of an addition to the plant.

Electrohome

Dominion Tire.

File consists of photographs of the exterior of the Dominion Tire building on Strange Street in Kitchener, and the surrounding area. Surrounding area photographs seem to be taken from the top of the factory.

Dominion Rubber Company

Dominion Tire staff.

Two copies of a photograph of Dominion Tire staff posed for the camera while standing on factory floor. Everyone in the group is seen wearing a hat and dressed in a full suits, some without jackets. Includes identifications (left to right): unidentified, unidentified, unidentified, W. A. Gruenawald, E.C. Kabel, George Seikliering [?], unidentified and R.Y. Copland.

Dominion Rubber Company

Poole, Henry S.

Two copies of a photograph of electrical engineer Henry S. Poole seated at a desk with legs crossed.

Dominion Rubber Company

Kabel, E.C. and J.I. Frank Anthes.

Two copies of a photograph of E.C. Kable and J.I. Frank Anthes standing on the front steps of the Dominion Tired factory building. Left corner of frame obscured by unknown source.

Dominion Rubber Company

Harding, F.W.

Two copies of a photograph of F. W. Harding seen looking at camera while seated and leaning back in a chair with right arm on desk.

Dominion Rubber Company

Kabel, E.C. and Irene Bain.

Photograph of the Dominion Tire factory office with E.C. Kabel and Irene Bain seated at desks. Kabel is seen looking off camera and his desk has a variety of rubber tread samples on top. Bain is seen looking toward camera from a desk behind and to the right of Kabel.

Dominion Rubber Company

Tremble, Fred.

Two copies of a photograph of Fred Tremble seated in factory office and looking off camera.

Dominion Rubber Company

Tremble, Fred.

Two copies of a photograph of Fred Tremble outdoors with a cigar in mouth. Tremble is seen looking off camera, posed with one arm on hip and the other propped on a wall.

Dominion Rubber Company

Picnic at Waterloo Park.

This photograph shows a group of Waterloo merchants/businessmen picnicking at Lexington Flats. Wooden table and benches can be seen and dishes and bottles on the table.
Left to right; (?), Albert Hergott, (?), (?), (?), (?), David Kuntz, (?), (?), (?), John Koehler, Edward F. Seagram, Daniel "Biddle" Bohlender.

Company of Neighbours

Berlin Rescue and Hose Co.: Horse-drawn in front of Frederick St. Firehall.

Copy negative of a torn and taped photograph of members of the Rescue and Hose Co. on, and in front of, a horse drawn wagon. Corresponding caption from caption list in file 9 reads: "2) Berlin Rescue & Hose Co horse drawn in front of Fred St. firehall." Annotations on one of the reference prints in file read: "Scharlach, Charles [Loelu?], [Uhrig?], Timms, Dan Boettger, John Rhodes, Frank Seebert."

Kitchener-Waterloo Record

Funeral of Charles Rosekat.

A press clipping titled "Drowned Man Laid to Rest" regarding the funeral of Charles Rosekat's from the Bechler family photo album. Announcement notes Rosekat drowned August 4th at Grimsby Beach and was a Kaufman Rubber Co. employee.

Bechler family

Motz, William John : house.

File consists of two reprint photographs showing William John Motz's home in Kitchener. One image shows the entire front of the home with the family standing out front, the other shows a closeup of the lower front facade with a woman seated on the porch. The house still stands at the corner of Weber and Young St. in Kitchener.

Motz Family

Kolb children.

Studio portrait of Grace Evelyn Kolb, aged 8 years, 8 days, seated, holding Raymond Oliver Kolb, aged 1 year on lap. Evelyn is seen with has large ribbons in her hair and Raymond is holding a sprig of greenery.

Schantz Russell Family

Merner, Elizabeth and family.

File consists of a photograph of the home of Elizabeth Merner (nee Young) on Main Street in New Hamburg, Ontario. Her family (children and grandchildren) are gathered in the front yard and on the front porch.

Rieder and Anthes family

J.M. Schneider original plant at 63 Courtland Ave. E.

One modern print of a photograph taken by Norman Schneider in 1912. The photograph shows the exterior of the original Schneider plant on Courtland Ave. It includes 11 adults posed standing and two seated at various point along the front of the building. A child is visible at right looking on. John Metz Schneider is standing fourth from left, in partial profile, wearing a hat.

Schneider family

Dominion Tire Kitchener factory construction.

File consists of photographs of construction of the Dominion Tire factory on Strange Street in Kitchener. Includes photographs of the land being cleared, as well as exterior and interior shots. Duplicates present.

Dominion Rubber Company

Dominion Tire blueprints.

File consists of one blueprint for the Dominion Tire factory on Strange Street in Kitchener. Blueprint shows the front and side elevations. Design by Albert Kahn, architects.

Dominion Rubber Company

Dominion Tire powerhouse blueprints.

File consists of one blueprint for the powerhouse for the Dominion Tire factory on Strange Street in Kitchener. Blueprint shows the front elevation and floor plan. Design by Albert Kahn, architects.

Dominion Rubber Company

Busy Berlin map poster.

File consists of one reprint of the Busy Berlin map of 1912. The map was reprinted in 1989 at 69% of the original size by the Kitchener Public Library.

Kaufman Family

Shoemaker Avenue pumping station and reservoir construction.

File consists of three mounted copies of a photograph of the construction of an in-ground concrete reservoir at the Shoemaker Avenue pump house. Photograph shows 12 men (probably including the water commissioners) in the distance standing beind the excavated construction site.

Pequegnat, Marcel

Merner, Elizabeth and family.

Group portrait of Elizabeth Merner (nee Young) with her family, including children and grandchildren, taken outdoors at her home on Main Street in New Hamburg, Ontario. Included in the photograph are Peter Rieder and Emeline Rieder (nee Merner), as well as some of their children. The people in the photograph are numbered and pasted to the bottom of the mount is a piece of paper identifying the people by number.

Back row (left to right):

  • 1. Aunt Alma Flett
  • 2. Chester Merner
  • 3. Winnifred M. Brittin
  • 4. Aunt Adele "Della" Rieder
  • 5. Bert Merner
  • 6. Aunt Esther Shave
  • 7. Don Merner
  • 8. May Gauerke

Second row from back:

  • 9. Ernest Wood
  • 10. Aunt Em Merner
  • 11. Grandpa Peter Rieder
  • 12. Marianne Merner
  • 13. Aunt Margaret Merner
  • 14. Aunt Effie Merner

Third row from back:

  • 15. Uncle Henry Merner
  • 16. Uncle Ed Merner
  • 17. Grandma Emeline Rieder
  • 18. Grt. Grandma Merner
  • 19. Uncle Emanuel Merner
  • 20. Uncle George Merner
  • 21. Uncle Will Merner

Fourth row from back:

  • 22. Aunt Maude [Wood?]
  • 23. Aunt Sarah Zinn
  • 24. Thelma Merner (Goldsword)
  • 25. Aunt [Linn?] Zurbrigg
  • 26. Aunt Tillie
  • 27. Aunt Eva Rieder
  • 28. Emily Merner

Front row:

  • 29. Mildred Wood (Sweet)
  • 30. Charles Wood
  • 31. Clinton Zurbrigg
  • 32. Martha Merner McCorkle
  • 33. Miriam Merner

Rieder and Anthes family

Dominion Tire Company factory album.

Album containing photographs of the construction of the Dominion Tire Company manufacturing plant in what was then Berlin, Ontario. Includes photographs of the construction process, the surrounding land, the interior and exterior of the building during construction, equipment used the tire manufacturing process and employees on the factory floor, etc. Although the majority of the people are unidentified the following people appear in the album: Talmon Henry Rieder (page 1), [Ed Cable?] and Irene Bain (page 3), Dr. Wood (page 6), and J.I. Franklin Anthes (page 9 and 53).

Rieder and Anthes family

Dominion Tire machinery.

File consists of photographs of machinery in the Dominion Tire factory on Strange Street in Kitchener. Some photographs include captions describing the machinery and its purpose.

Dominion Rubber Company

Dominion Tire.

File consists of photographs of exterior and in situ shots of the Dominion Tire factory on Strange Street in Kitchener.

Dominion Rubber Company

Edward Street water tower.

File consists of a mounted photograph of the water tower on Edward Street (now Duke Street) in Berlin (now Kitchener).

Pequegnat, Marcel

Dominion Tire machinery.

File consists of photographs of machinery in the Dominion Tire factory on Strange Street in Kitchener. The photographs are glued to photo album pages and some feature detailed captions describing the machinery and its purpose.

Dominion Rubber Company

Dominion tire management staff.

File consists of one photograph of the management staff of the Dominion Tire factory. Photograph was taken October 1913 at Essex Studio in Preston, Ontario.

Includes:

  • Anthes, John Isaac Franklin
  • Kabel, E.C.
  • Wellein, H.E.
  • Gerbig, Julius
  • Copland, R.Y.
  • Voelker, Ed
  • Wood, Dr
  • Gruenawald, William A.

Dominion Rubber Company

C.H. Doerr and Company : shipping room.

Print copy photograph of three employees in the C.H. Doerr and Company shipping room. Two are seen standing behind a long counter and another is standing beside piles of boxes.

Dare Foods Limited

Westmount prospectus.

File consists of material relating to the Westmount development in Waterloo. Includes a prospectus (Realty Pointers: Westmount, "The Development Beautiful") prepared by Beck & Eisenbach (Berlin, ON) containing a plan of Westmount; and a photograph of a topographical landscape painting showing Berlin, Waterloo, and Westmount, prepared by Gibson Catlett, Real Estate Landscape Paintings (Calgary, AB). The plan in the prospectus contains manuscript annotations.

Rieder and Anthes family

Unidentified young adult on empty plinth.

Photograph of an unidentified young adult standing on top of the empty Kaiser Wilhelm I plinth in Victoria Park imitating a statue with one arm outstretched and the other at placed on hip.

Schneider family

Dominion Tire factory and workers

File consists of one photograph of employees of Dominion Tire going home from work with a few houses and the Dominion Tire factory visible in the background. File includes a typed caption, likely used as part of a display, that reads: "Going home from work (field in foreground is now parking lot)."

Dominion Rubber Systems

Dominion Tire factory

File consists of one photograph of the front elevation Dominion Tire factory. The factory appears to have been recently built as in the foreground piles of dirt and construction materials can be seen.

Dominion Rubber Systems

Duke of Connaught reading reply to Mayor William Daum Euler's address.

One photograph printed on a postcard of the Duke of Connaught reading a reply to Mayor William Daum Euler's address during his visit to Berlin, Ontario on May 9, 1914. This photograph was found with Hervey Bowman's belongings. The photograph was originally housed in an envelope, which is included in the file.

Schantz Russell Family

Lapsley, Ethel.

Supplement to The Agent's Bulletin (November 1914) showing a group portrait of the Managing Director and Head Office Staff of Mutual Life Insurance taken outside the Waterloo office. Ethel Lapsley appears in the front row, second from the right, wearing a white blouse and dark skirt.

Caption at bottom of portrait reads: In the centre, first row, from left to right, are Mr. Wegenast, Mr. Winkler and Mr. Gleiser. In the second row between the Manager and Mr. Winkler is the Secretary, Mr. Ruby, and at his left the Treasurer, Mr. Roos and Mr. Hallman the Actuary.

Schneider family

Dominion Tire factory

File consists of one photograph showing the front elevation of the Dominion Tire factory. The factory appears to have just been finished being built and in the foreground mounds of dirt and building materials can be seen.

Dominion Rubber Systems

RMS history photos.

File consists of photographs of the products, facilities, and people of RMS from 1918 until the late 1960's or early 1970's. Includes photographs of the products manufactured at RMS; photographs of the RMS facilities, including interior and exterior shots, as well as some photographs taken at other Uniroyal facilities (e.g. St. Jerome, Elmira); and photographs (including group portraits) of employees in various departments, such as office staff, engineering & drafting, tool makers, and the operating council, and employees at work.

Some photographs were taken for use in company publications and sales and marketing material. File also includes some contact prints and one page of ms. notes. Some photographs include ms. annotations on verso. Some duplicate photographs are present.

Rubber Machinery Shops

Clement, William Pope.

File consists of four photographs showing the home of William Pope Clement and wife Muriel Alberta Kerr Clement at 71 Heins Ave., Kitchener, Ont. The home was built for them by Mr. Frank.

Clement Bowlby Family

Victoria School, Kitchener, Ont. : Class of 1915-1916.

One group portrait of the Victoria School class of 1915-1916, of which Dorothy White [front row, third from right?] was a student. The group, taught by Mrs. Suter, is seen posed in four rows, grouped by gender, on the front steps of the school.

Schantz Russell Family

Clement, Janie Elizabeth Bowlby.

File consists of two identical informal portraits of Janie Elizabeth Bowlby Clement at the wedding of her son William Pope Clement to Muriel Alberta Kerr, June 23, 1915 at Courtland Ave. E. Kitchener, Ont.

Clement Bowlby Family

118th Battalion trooping the colours.

One postcard identified by Norman C. Schneider as the 118th Battalion in Victoria Park, Kitchener, Ont., 1916. Also in this image is a photographer with camera and tripod, preparing to take a picture. This postcard was sent to Floss Ahrens in Kansas City by E. Maude Garner and is stamped and postmarked Kitchener, Oct. 16, 1916.

Schneider, Norman Christoph

Schneider, Norman C. snapshots.

128 snapshots, some with identifications. Contains Norman C. Schneider's photos of 1916 "118th Battalion" such as interior photos of barracks at Berlin (Kitchener), Ottawa, tents at Camp Borden; the Schneider family home "Buena Vista" with John Metz out front in two of the photos; picnics with friends, Gatineau River, plane crashes, A nice catch of fish.

Schneider, Norman Christoph

White, Dorothy with Anna Moyer and unidentified woman.

One snapshot photograph of an unidentified woman with Dorothy White and Anna Moyer at Victoria Park, Kitchener. The women are shown standing in front of the water and the photograph is in a large paper frame with a pipe cleaner for hanging. The frame reads "With best wishes: Days of the year" in an Eastern style font. Location identified from verso.

Schantz Russell Family

Russell, Dorothy Etta.

Full body studio portrait of Dorothy Etta Russell (nee White) as a teenager seen seated in a chair and looking off camera.

Schantz Russell Family

118th Parade at King and Queen from old film, turning onto King.

Copy negative of clip from film of the 118th Battalion marching band traveling down a city street while playing instruments. Hanging signs for Staebler Insurance, Lockhart's Garage and Dominion Cafe are visible in the background. Caption accompanying negative reads: "6) 118th parade at King and Queen from old film turning onto King."

Kitchener-Waterloo Record

Clement, David Ward.

File consists of three photographs (one duplicate) showing David Ward Clement and friends Carl Spahr Berlet and Alf Stewart in their First World War uniforms the year he went overseas.

Clement Bowlby Family

Dominion Tire staff.

File consists of one photograph of Dominion Tire staff, seen wearing hats and coats, standing on the front steps of the factory.

Dominion Rubber Company

Ahrens, Charles August and Emma.

Postcard photograph of Emma and Charles August Ahrens standing outdoors on September 21, 1917, their 35th wedding anniversary. Both are seen looking off camera in opposite directions and are dressed in wedding attire. Emma is holding a bouquet of flowers.

Schneider family

Employees.

File consists of a 1939 group photograph of Greb Shoe Company employees, a photograph of an employees sports team (baseball?), and two snapshots of employees in a cafeteria and playing horseshoes outside a Greb plant. File also includes a modern reproduction of a group photograph of Greb Shoe Company employees, [ca. 1917?] standing outside of the Queen Street South location; reproduction is printed on cardstock and taped to a mat.

Greb Industries Limited

Schantz family.

Photograph of the Schantz family taken in front of the Schantz home at 43 Schneider Avenue in Kitchener, Ontario. Left to right: Walter Spelman (holding Dorothy Spelman), Ruth Schantz (with Walter Bishop Spelman and Margery Ruth Spelman), Orpheus Moyer Schantz, Carrie Flagler Schantz, Sophie Schantz, Florence Schantz, Mary Moyer Schantz, Dorothy White, Worth Schantz.

Schantz Russell Family

Augustine, Edna Louise and Albert William Augustine wedding.

Group portrait of Edna Louise Augustine (nee Kaufman) and Albert William Augustine along with their wedding party on their wedding day on August 22, 1918. They were married at Zion Evangelical Church in Kitchener, Ontario. The group is seen in formal dress wearing boutonnieres and holding bouquets of flowers.

Left to right: Louis O. Breithaupt (1st cousin), Walter T. Barrie (friend), Edward J. Breithaupt (1st cousin), Albert William Augustine, Helen Kaufman (flower girl, daughter of Jean and Alvin R. Kaufman), Edna Louise Kaufman, Laurine C. Augustine (sister of Albert William Augustine), unidentified bridesmaid (likely Eloise Noecker).

Augustine, Ham, Kaufman family

Kitchener Natatorium.

File consists of three photographs of the Kitchener Natatorium and its locker rooms. Talmon Henry Rieder played a role in the construction of the natatorium, which opened July 21, 1917 at at 121 King Street West in the Rieder Block.

Rieder and Anthes family

Augustine, Edna Louise and Albert William Augustine wedding.

Group portrait of Edna Louise Augustine (nee Kaufman) and Albert William Augustine along with their wedding party on their wedding day on August 22, 1918. They were married at Zion Evangelical Church in Kitchener, Ontario. The group is seen in formal dress wearing boutonnieres and holding bouquets of flowers.

Left to right: Louis O. Breithaupt (1st cousin), Walter T. Barrie (friend), Edward J. Breithaupt (1st cousin), Albert William Augustine, Helen Kaufman (flower girl, daughter of Jean and Alvin R. Kaufman), Edna Louise Kaufman, Laurine C. Augustine (sister of Albert William Augustine), unidentified bridesmaid (likely Eloise Noecker).

Augustine, Ham, Kaufman family

School group photograph.

Photograph of a school group of 37 children by a building entrance, possibly Margaret Avenue School.

According to annotations, one of the persons in photograph is possibly Helena Esther Duffield.

Breithaupt Hewetson Clark family

Production : mounted photographs.

File consists of mounted photographs of the interior of the Greb Shoes factory, showing employees at work on footwear production lines. File also includes a photograph of Erwin Greb in the Greb Shoes office, adjoining the factory on Queen Street in Kitchener.

Greb Industries Limited

Strange Street well.

File consists of a mounted photograph of an artesian well at Strange Street in Kitchener. Three men, one of which is J.C. Breithaupt, are standing behind the well.

Pequegnat, Marcel

Local history.

Series consists of material relating to the history of Kitchener and the Region of Waterloo. Includes clippings, photographs, publications and special issues of newspapers. Some of these contain references to the Schneider family and company.

Schneider family

Schneider family : group at Freeport.

One informal group portrait of fifteen people, posed outdoors at Emmie Anthes' property at Freeport.

Standing (left to right): [Helena Schneider?]; unidentified woman; Walter V. Siegner, Irmengarde Hagen, Ethel Lapsley Schneider, Ohnerene Hagen, Brodie Koenig; Edith Ahrens MacDonald, Norman C. Schneider.

Seated (left to right): Emmie Anthes, Emma Schneider Siegner, Ella Daniels Schneider, Mabel Ahrens Picard, unidentified girl, unidentified man.

Schneider family

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