- SCA173-GA148-14-428
- File
- 1969
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Kaufman Footwear
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Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Kaufman Footwear
A.R. Kaufman, unidentified man standing in a field.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Informal snapshot of A.R. Kaufman and an unidentified man standing in a field.
Kaufman Footwear
Documents received from G. R. Good.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains material relating to Kaufman Footwear's pricing, costs, and competition. Includes memoranda, notes, correspondence, training material, government specifications, price lists, and a production schedule.
Kaufman Footwear
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains compound sheets with a list of the materials used for the compound and the total weight of the compound. Also includes mixing instructions.Sheets initialled by W.H.B. (William H. Bechtel).
Kaufman Footwear
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Kaufman, A. R. (Alvin Ratz)
Piece work rates (file 2 of 2).
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains piece work prices for: cutting leather; gloves; lay and cement; stripping; general shoes; shoe room; boot room; foamtread; sewing room; and the quarter room. Originally in a binder belonging to I.E. Weber, Vice-President Manufacturing.
Kaufman Footwear
Famous Canadian sub-zero pac : premium Sorel.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
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
Kaufman Rubber Co., Limited : group portrait.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Group portrait of nine unidentified men in suits.
Kaufman Footwear
Photographs taken for written standard practice reports.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains eleven photographs of processes and machinery most likely taken for a written standard practice report. Includes several unidentified employees at work.
Kaufman Footwear
Photographs taken for written standard practice reports.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains ten photographs of equipment and machinery which are all labeled 136D.
Kaufman Footwear
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains negatives and photographs of taken for written standard practice reports.
Kaufman Footwear
Kaufman, A.R. : awards : Kiwanis Club honourary membership.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Correspondence and clippings relating to an honourary membership in the Twin Cities Kiwanis Club awarded to A.R. Kaufman in July 15, 1969. Includes information about his efforts to secure land eventually used for "Kiwanis Park".
Kaufman, A. R. (Alvin Ratz)
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Series consists of photographs, including two studio portraits of A.R. Kaufman and one of a building named in his honour.
Kaufman, A. R. (Alvin Ratz)
Cost accounting manager : G.R. Good.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains material relating to the cost accounting manager, G.R. Good. Includes memoranda, design sheets, mill room day staff allowance, line balance procedure, production calculations, and shoe room rates.
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
Historical information : standard scale of last measurements.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains a one-sheet description of the standard scale of the last measurements.
Kaufman Footwear
Kaufman, A.R. : biographical : Canadian Who's Who.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Consists of the Canadian Who's Who entries for A.R. Kaufman, and includes the text of one entry accompanied by a portrait by Ashley & Crippen.
Kaufman, A. R. (Alvin Ratz)
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Two copies of the same portrait, each accompanied by a letter.
Kaufman, A. R. (Alvin Ratz)
Piece work rates (file 1 of 2).
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains piece work prices for: cutting leather; gloves; lay and cement; stripping; general shoes; shoe room; boot room; foamtread; sewing room; and the quarter room. Originally in a binder belonging to I.E. Weber, Vice-President Manufacturing.
Kaufman Footwear
Acton Rubber Footwear, 1969-1970.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Kaufman Footwear
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains four formal portraits of A.R. Kaufman, two different poses, one of one pose and three of another.
Kaufman Footwear
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
1 vendor's permit, framed, for Kaufman Footwear Industries.
Kaufman Footwear
Kaufman, A.R. : correspondence.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains correspondence to and from A.R. Kaufman, notes, memoranda and a 1908 price list. Some of the correspondence references the strike during the summer of 1960.
Kaufman Footwear
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains memoranda, mainly from I.K. Weber, regarding sales, and pricing of Kaufman products.
Kaufman Footwear
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Kaufman Footwear
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Kaufman Footwear
Acton Rubber Footwear, 1968-1969.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Kaufman Footwear
Kitchener Young Men's Club plaque.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Plaque commemorating the Kitchener Young Men's Club (KYMC), Kitchener's first service club dedicated to the stimulation and maintenance of all matters of civic welfare. Plaque includes an inscription and a Canadian coin for 50 cents from 1968.
Kaufman, A. R. (Alvin Ratz)
Plaisted Expedition photographs.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains photographs of the Plaisted Expedition, including a portrait of Ralph Plaisted.
Kaufman Footwear
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
File consists of one catalogue for Kaufman footwear.
Kaufman Family
Kaufman, A.R. : trip to Russia and Europe, July 9 to Aug. 14, 1963.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Material relating to a seminar to Russia in 1963 conducted by Dr. Jerome Davis, "Promoting Enduring Peace." Contains an itinerary and a photograph of participants. Includes a list of individuals to whom A.R. Kaufman distributed his impressions of the trip, the replies he received as well as the impresions of others sent to him in return. Includes clippings and news stories about Russia collected by A.R. Kaufman up to 1967.
Kaufman, A. R. (Alvin Ratz)
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Kaufman Footwear
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Kaufman Footwear
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains 11 advertisement paste-ups of rubber shoes and boots.
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.
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
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Kaufman Footwear
1967 Spring Kaufman canvas footwear net price list, effective July 29th, 1966.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Kaufman Footwear
Kaufman, A.R. : interview for broadcast on CKCO TV, Jan. 18, 1965.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Typescript transcript (carbon) of an interview broadcast on CKCO TV, Jan. 18, 1965 regarding Kaufman being named citizen of the year.
Kaufman, A. R. (Alvin Ratz)
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 one catalogue for Kaufman footwear.
Kaufman Family
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Kaufman Footwear
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
List of names of people invited related to A. R. Kaufman's 80th birthday anniversary reception with handwritten annotations. Includes addresses of attendees.
Kaufman, A. R. (Alvin Ratz)
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Kaufman Footwear
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
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
Kaufman, A.R. : awards : Twin City Citizen of the Year 1964.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Correspondence and clippings relating to the K-W Junior Chamber of Commerce award for Citizen of the Year, awarded to A.R. Kaufman January 1965.
Kaufman, A. R. (Alvin Ratz)
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
Tour of Breithaupt tannery, Hastings, Ont.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains one informal portrait of a group standing outside of a building, in front of Breithaupt Leather trucks, on a tour of the Breithaupt tannery in Hastings, Ontario.
Left to right: unidentified Breithaupt employee, unidentified Breithaupt employee, George Banton, Don Comfort, Raymond Boucher, unidentified, Jim Jolly, unidentified, Marc Seguin, Don Keast, Frank Packard, Leo McNamee, Don Mugford, Mr. Breithaupt (President of Breithaupt Leather), I.E. Weber (Vice President, Manufacturing of Kaufman Footwear Limited).
Kaufman Footwear
Kaufman, A.R. : trip to Russia and Europe, July 9 to Aug. 14, 1963 : interviews.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains one typescript transcript of an interview for broadcast on CKCO TV (8 l., originals and carbons). Also contains a list of questions from University of Waterloo students with note by A.R.K.: "I answered at meeting in Arts Theatre Mar. 16/64." This is accompanied by a 4 l. transcript (typescript, original) of questions and Kaufman's answers, as well as one leaf of manuscript notes.
Kaufman, A. R. (Alvin Ratz)
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains sales lists of various lines of shoes with totals. Binder belonging to C.D.P.
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.
Contains material relating to unclaimed wages. Includes recipts, lists of unclaimed wages returned to the accounting department, memoranda, and employees' statements of earings and deductions.
Kaufman Footwear
K.R. Ro-Search written standard practice.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Written standard practice no. P-3, "Electroforming of copper moulds for use in vinyl footwear production"; Written standard practice no. P-7, "Methods of model making for moulds for use in slush moulding of vinyl footwear"; Written standard practice no. P-6, "Showertog production and sequence of operations on K.R. Unit #3 pertaining to shoes of the basic type known as Sprite flat and Snowbelle." Includes 10 vinyl samples, and 61 photographs.
Kaufman Footwear
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Kaufman Footwear
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Kaufman Footwear
Photographs taken for written standard practice reports.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains six negatives and seven photographs of an unidentifed process, materials, and equipment, most likely taken for a written standard practice report.
Kaufman Footwear
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains newspaper clippings (some photocopies) re 50th anniversary or the company, Kaufman history, also appointments of Kaufman employees.
Kaufman Footwear
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
File consists of one catalogue for Kaufman Footwear. Note that some entries have been annotated and some have been removed.
Kaufman Family
Kaufman, A.R. and William H. Kaufman.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Kaufman, William Hutton
Photographs taken for written standard practice reports.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains three negatives of machinery and processes, most likely for a written standard practice report. Includes one unidentified man at work.
Kaufman Footwear
Kaufman, A.R. : trip to Russia and Europe, July 9 to Aug. 14, 1963.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Account of a trip by A.R. Kaufman to Russia and Europe in 1963: one typescript (20 l., photocopy) as well as a supplementary account (3 l., photocopy) with title "A.R. Kaufman's impressions, and information on Russian Tour, July 15-Aug. 10, 1963".
Kaufman, A. R. (Alvin Ratz)
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Leather-bound scrapbook with mementos of the Kaufman family history. Scrapbook is organized into two sections. First section is titled “Grandmother Kaufman’s favourite poems from Helen, Bill, and Jean Xmas 1935” and includes poems either received by Mary Eidt Kaufman or copied by her grandchildren Helen Mary, William Hutton, and Sally Jean in her honour (some poems are written in German). Second section is titled “Clippings & poems Jean and Alvin” and includes correspondence, ephemera, postcards, poems, newspaper clippings, and an invitation to A. R. and Jean Kaufman wedding.
Kaufman, A. R. (Alvin Ratz)
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
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
How to make an effective sales presentation.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Kaufman Footwear
A.R. Kaufman Family YMCA addition plans.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
File consists of ten architectural drawings (bound together) showing proposed additions to the A.R. Kaufman Family YMCA. Plans are marked set no. 10.
Kaufman Family
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
File consists of one price list for Kaufman Footwear.
Kaufman Family
Miscellaneous compounds : I.E. Weber (file 1 of 2).
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains mechanical compound and mixing 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 14 advertisement paste-ups of rubber shoes and boots.
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
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 15 advertisement paste-ups of rubber shoes and boots.
Kaufman Footwear
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Kaufman Footwear
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Series consists of autobiographical accounts by A.R. Kaufman of trips taken to England and France in 1929, around the world in 1958, and to Russia in 1963. A.R.K.'s trip accounts contain many personal observations on the economy, architecture, living conditions and way of life in the countries visited.
Kaufman, A. R. (Alvin Ratz)
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
File consists of one price list for Kaufman Footwear (French edition).
Kaufman Family
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
File consists of documentation prepared for the Department of Co-ordination and Placement at the University of Waterloo by Jack Frost on calender roll grinding.
Kaufman Footwear
Miscellaneous compounds : I.E. Weber (file 2 of 2).
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains mechanical compound and mixing 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.
File consists of one catalogue for Kaufman Footwear.
Kaufman Family
Qualité superieure : chaussures impermeables et Foamtread souliers de maison, 1961-1962.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Kaufman Footwear
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Kaufman Footwear
Kaufman canvas footwear 1962-63 : new price list, effective Sept. 24, 1962.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Kaufman Footwear
Super quality waterproof footwear, 1962-1963.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Kaufman Footwear
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains computer cards, parcel notes, merchandise tags, cardboard notices and letterhead.
Kaufman Footwear
Strike, 1960 : Union's proposed agreement and Labour Relations Act.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains files relating to the 1960 strike : A.R. Kaufman's files. Includes a copy of the Labour Relations Act, a Canadian Rubber Footwear brochure, the final draft of Kaufman's proposed union agreement, correspondence, a CBC broadcast transcript of an interview with A.R. Kaufman, and 2 "Outlook" newsletters.
Kaufman Footwear
Kaufman Rubber Co. : introduction to EDP.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains one informal photograph of Kaufman Rubber Co. Limited's introduction to electronic data processing. Identification on back of photograph. Left to right: IBM representative, Bernard Currie, C.E. Schlote. Includes note on verso of photograph : "IBM DP Publication library copy".
Kaufman Footwear
Photographs taken for written standard practice reports.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains two photographs of what is identified on verso as "cracker mill base showing fabricated up".
Kaufman Footwear
Plans for Dominion Rubber Company.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Plans for Dominion Rubber Company plots and tire stores. Includes the plot plan for Windsor (Ontario) from February 1962, and the preliminary sketch plan no. 1 ground floor plan of Dominion Tire Store for Vancouver (British Columbia) from May 1959.
Kaufman, A. R. (Alvin Ratz)
Kaufman Kingtreads : in-stock lines.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Advertising directed at retailers.
Kaufman Footwear
Kaufman presents Packard shoes, slippers, Foamtread slippers, Kingtread work boots for 1962.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Kaufman Footwear
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Kaufman Footwear
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
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
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
Kaufman, A.R. : biographical : articles.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
One article: "The eccentric world of Alvin Ratz Kaufman" by Herc Munro from Executive (April 1962): 32-35. Includes overview of anti-union actions and Kaufman's contributions to the birth control movement.
Kaufman, A. R. (Alvin Ratz)