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Schneider, Frederick H.

Two copies of a studio portrait of Frederick H. Schneider with different mounts. Schneider is seen looking off camera, dressed in collared shirt and tie.

Schneider family

Georgian Bay.

File consists of three photographs showing life at Portage Point, Georgian Bay. Two identical photographs show the "Portage Point Farewell", a snapshot of extended Clement family members holding hands and jumping in the air. The third photograph is on the verso side of a page to which one farewell photograph is glued. This shows a sailboat on Georgian Bay. Family members shown in the image include: A.Y. Jackson, David Ward Clement, Florence Grace Clement, Ed Whyte, Esther Williams, Elinor Williams, Marial Birnie.

Clement Bowlby Family

Jackson, Geneva.

Snapshot portrait of Geneva Jackson shown holding a spray of leaves, with right hand at head, standing at the edge of a body of water, possibly Georgian Bay.

Clement Bowlby Family

Bricker, Marjorie.

Full body studio portrait of Marjorie Bricker seen kneeling on a wicker arm chair with a doll and looking off camera.

Schantz Russell 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

Sedgewick, Alberta streetscape.

Photograph of a streetscape of Sedgewick, Alberta showing a Meat Martket, Clemens Bros. store and Sedgewick Realty Co. A group of unidentified men and a child are standing outside of storefronts and a horse is visible hitched to a post.

Schantz Russell Family

Ahrens cousins swimming.

Snapshots of Ahrens cousins and friends in the water and on the beach, in bathing costumes, likely at the Ahrens cottage at Grand Bend.

Schneider, Norman Christoph

Photographs

File consists of seven snapshots of Martha's life in the Yukon. Included are three images of a fishing trip with George, one of a flower panel, one of a mail truck and car, one of Yukon grown vegetables and one of Martha and George in the garden. All but one include handwritten annotations from Martha on the verso.

Black, Martha Louise

Ahrens and Schneider families at Lake Huron.

Two copies of an informal group portrait taken at Grand Bend or Southampton, with cottage visible in background.
Back row, left to right: Lotte (Ahrens) Shupe, Emma (Hirshey) Ahrens, J.M. Schneider, Charles A. Ahrens, Norman C. Schneider.
front row, left to right: Stella Daniels, Emma Schneider, Ella Daniels, Floss Ahrens.

Schneider family

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

Postcard to Leo Anthes.

File consists of a postcard containing a photograph of a tree-lined river bank containing the caption "7 Arundel Que." The postcard is addressed to Leo Anthes [possibly Leonard Anthes, son of J.I. Frank and Cyrena Anthes] from Ida W.

Rieder and Anthes family

Correspondence : 1911-1922.

File consists of 34 letters, telegrams, and postcards received by Talmon Henry Rieder from family members, friends and others, including 17 letters from Martha Rieder and several from his children. Also present is a postcard received by Talmon Henry Rieder from [?] containing a photograph of the destruction caused by a tornado that hit Regina, Saskatchewan, on June 30, 1912, and an empty envelope with stamp.

Rieder and Anthes 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

Property : 610 Belmont Avenue, Montreal.

File consists of material relating to the purchase of the property and construction of the house at 610 Belmont Avenue in Montreal (City of Westmount), as well as the related mortgage and insurance. Includes correspondence, specifications for the house, receipts, manuscript notes, a deed of mortgage (copy), an agreement regarding a loan and repayment (copy), and by-law no. 229 regarding construction in the City of Westmount (copy).

Rieder and Anthes 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

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

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

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

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

Dunnville Flood, 1912.

Copy negatives and prints of the Dunnville flood, April 1912. Envelopes containing negatives and reference prints include location annotations:

  • Lower River (pp 18)
  • East of Dunnville Dam Looking Downstream
  • Dunvnille Dam (pp 18)
  • Bridge at Byng
  • Slingsby Mill - on Site of Present Arena
  • Intersection of Queen & Chestnut Streets (pp 19)
  • Queen St. - Queen's Hotel on Left
  • Looking West on Broad St. From Corner of Chestnut 1930 (pp 20)
  • Mill St. - Old Kohler Mil: Dunnville Dam in Background (pg 17)

Grand River Conservation Authority

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

Mackay, Isabel Ecclestone.

File consists of one snapshot of Isabel Mackay with two of her daughters, Phyllis and Margaret. The three are standing outside in a wood in Stanley Park. Verso reads "Taken in Stanley Park about 1912 with Margaret on left, Phyllis on right."

Mackay, Isabel Ecclestone

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

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. 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

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

Clement, David Ward.

File consists of one full length studio portrait of David Ward Clement dressed in his Cadet Corps uniform taken during his time at St. Andrew's College.

Clement Bowlby Family

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

Correspondence, 1913-1919.

  • Date and Place from 1915 April 5 Whitby, Ont. To Pincock, Jenny From Hare, J.J. Attachments Letter of reference. Notes ALs
  • Date and Place from 1913 December 31 Toronto, Ont. To Pincock, Jenny From Harrison, J.W.F. Attachments One leaf excerpts from newspaper reviews, of Jenny O'Hara's piano recital. Envelope, stamp removed. Notes ALs. Letter of reference from her piano teacher.

Maines Pincock Family

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

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

Clement family.

Two copies of a photograph of the members of the extended Clement family celebrating on the day of the declaration of Britain joining World War I (August 4, 1914). The photographs show Harry (Hal) Scruton, David Ward Clement, Jim McIntosh, Paul Hayward, and John Birnie. The men are shown grouped around a cannon and holding an unidentifiable flag.

Clement Bowlby Family

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

Grand Bend, Ont. : group at a dance.

Postcard photograph of an informal group portrait of a number of young people, posed indoors at a dance hall in Grand Bend, Ont. This was sent as a postcard from Norman Schneider to Emma Schneider, postmarked Aug. 10, 1914: "Dear Emma, Don't know whether you have seen this. Had a grand dance Sat. eve. and the floor was crowded. Lots of pretty girls up here so of course I am having a good time. Norm."

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

Schantz photographs : album page.

One loose album page that has been removed from an unidentified photograph album. Recto shows three photographs: Christian Schantz in front of his home in Wetaskiwin, Alta; his dog Tye; and cats playing in front of a home. The verso shows two photographs: Myford, Hamilton and Walter Kitney in 1915; and Walter Charles and Ada Kitney.

Schantz Russell Family

Clement, Muriel Alberta Kerr.

File consists of one full body studio portrait of Muriel Alberta Kerr Clement. Muriel is shown sitting on a bench with her legs crossed, wearing a hat, dress, and heels.

Clement Bowlby Family

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

Old Georgian Bay.

Photographs related to the Breithaupt family. Also contains two developing envelopes that contained the negatives when they arrived in archives and included annotations indicating the photographs were taken in Old Georgian Bay and the Muskoka area.

Breithaupt Hewetson Clark 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

Diary of Frederick Arthur Edmonds.

Contains one black leather bound notebook used by Frederick Arthur Edmonds as a diary. The notebook is ruled, contains some numbered pages, and opens lengthwise. Entries are dated and sporadic, are written in pencil, and include a chart of the names of soldiers from the 16th Platoon, with their identification number, rank, age, marital status, date of arrival in France, religion, next of kin, trade, and courses. Includes a loose leaf of paper in the front pocket of the notebook, and several blank pages. The diary entries are titled "My diary since leaving the 'Ypres Salient'", and detail the movement of troops, destinations, times leaving and arriving places, encampments, training progress, weather, distances from place to place in kilometres, locations of battles, places billeted, conditions in the trenches, descriptions of battles, objectives, conditions, attacks, general notes about casualties, tanks, mines, and descriptions of Edmonds' stay in the Paris Plaz hospital and Le Havre hospital. The diary goes up until just before Vimy Ridge, when Edmonds is invalided home.

Edmonds, Frederick Arthur

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

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

Clement, David Ward.

Head and shoulders studio portrait of David Ward Clement seen looking at camera, dressed in military uniform.

Clement Bowlby 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

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