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Outings : Kaufman Rubber Co. employee winter outing.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Informal group portrait of Kaufman Rubber Co. Limited employees. Identification on back of photo.
Front row, left to right: Gordon Good, Jake Howard [?], Bob Kee, and Harold Current.
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Parades : Kaufman Rubber Co.: Dominion Day parade float.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains one modern print copy negative of an old photograph of the Kaufman Rubber Co. Limited parade float for July 1, 1918. Identification included.
Back row, left to right: Ernie Dunbrook, Leo Cody, George Hainsworth (goaltender for the Montreal Canadians), Bernie Zuber, Ernie Ziegler, unidentified, unidentified, unidentified.
Middle row, left to right: unidentified, I.K. Weber.
Front row, left to right: unidentified, Oliver Schlegel [?], unidentified.
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Picnics : Kaufman Rubber Co. company picnic.
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.
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Picnics : Kaufman Rubber Co. company picnic, July 10, 1945.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains seven snapshots of the Kaufman Rubber Co., Limited company picnic. Includes snapshots of people playing games and eating. Identified on some photographs are Harold Current and Gordon Musselman.
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Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains one snapshot of several unidentified individuals at a social event.
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Varsity Grads : one of greatest teams of all.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains two modern print copy negatives and one photograph of a newspaper article about the Varsity Grads, Canada's Olympic team from 1928. Caption includes the identification of the players.
Left to right: Charlie Delahey, Rogers Plaxton, Frank Fisher, Ross Taylor, Hugh Plaxton, John (Red) Porter, Dr. Joe Sullivan, Dr. Lou Hudson, Bert Plaxton, and Stuffy Mueller. Also mentioned, but not in the photograph, are Dave Trottier, Frank Sullivan and Grant Gordon.
It is unknown what connection this photograph has to Kaufman Rubber Co., Limited.
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Photographs : Employees Working
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Series consists of photographs of employees at work in the Kaufman factory.
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Kaufman Footwear : employees at work in office and factory facilities.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains negatives depicting unidentified people at work in the Kaufman factory, in offices and in the cutting room. Also includes one photograph of an unidentified male working in possibly the pattern room? Includes several lasts in the background of the photograph.
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Kaufman Footwear : employees at work : production.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains photographs of employees at work on various stages of the production process. Includes identification of some of the employees: Eileen Buchner, Don Kraft, Bill Ariss, Helen Wroble, Bob Kerlit, William Kopes, Art Stager, Doug Hackbart, and John Stebli.
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Kaufman Footwear : John Stebli operating machinery.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains two photographs of John Stebli with two other men, one of whom is identified incorrectly on the verso of the photograph as John Lang, MP, but is actually Peter Lang, MP and is first on the left of the photograph. Also includes one photograph of John Stebli with three unidentified men, and one Polaroid of John Stebli operating machinery.
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Kaufman Footwear : machine shop : Mike Mueller making plastic moulds.
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.
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Kaufman Footwear : women at work in the factory.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains four photographs and five negatives of women working on the production line in the factory. Includes photocopy of the photographs with identification of Maria Joergenson, Kathy Horvath, and "Lisa".
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Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Series consists of photographs taken as publicity to document significant Kaufman Footwear events.
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Canadian Institute of Management and the Chamber of Commerce of Kitchener & Waterloo awards.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains seven photographs of an awards ceremony with several unidentified individuals, and one individual identified as Kimberly A. Schnarr. Includes a close up of an environmental achievement award that Kaufman Footwear won for employee involvement and product design.
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Jobs Ontario training fund announcement.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Photographs and contact sheets of pictures taken for the announcement of the Jobs Ontario training fund for Kaufman Footwear. Includes correspondence to Phil Henly from Nancy Bennet.
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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".
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Kitchener's business heritage celebration : Kaufman Footwear, 85 years of warm, dry comfort.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains eleven photographs of the events at the Kitchener business heritage celebration, where Kaufman Footwear was honoured.
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Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains three photographs of two different Kaufman murals in the progress of being painted.
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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.
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Kaufman Footwear : distribution center.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains 13 snapshots with negatives of the Kaufman Footwear Limited distribution center on Glasgow street.
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Kaufman Footwear : King. St. plant : aerial views.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains aerial photographs and negatives of the Kaufman buildings on King St. as well as facilities at Glasgow Street, Wellington Street and River Road.
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Kaufman Footwear : King. St. plant : aerial views.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains slides of aerial views of two of Kaufman Footwear's buildings. Includes factory on King Street and an unidentified warehouse.
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Kaufman Footwear : King. St. plant : aerial views, 1997.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains thirteen aerial photographs of the Kaufman factory on King Street in Kitchener and another warehouse.
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Kaufman Footwear : King. St. plant : construction.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
One polaroid snapshot of the Kaufman Footwear factory yard, with a dump truck in the foreground working on grading the yard.
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Kaufman Footwear : King. St. plant : construction and demolition.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains photographs of the demolition of part of a building at the Kaufman Footwear factory on King Street in Kitchener, and the use of a crane to either deliver or take away a large object.
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Kaufman Footwear : King. St. plant : exterior, 1907.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains one photograph of the exterior of the Kaufman Rubber Co. building with a frame house in the foreground.
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Kaufman Footwear : King. St. plant : exterior, 1937.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains six photographs of the Kaufman building, two of which are identified on verso as decorated for Coronation, May 12, 1937.
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Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains one photograph of the Kaufman building decorated for what is identified on the verso of the photograph as "King George VI and Queen Elizabeth's visit to Kitchener June 6, 1939 : Groups of 5 flags also on King St. and Francis St.".
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Kaufman Footwear : King. St. plant : exterior, 1970's.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains three photographs of the Kaufman factory building on King Street in Kitchener.
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Kaufman Footwear : King. St. plant : exterior, 1990's.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains eight black and white photographs and two colour photographs of the Kaufman Footwear Limited factory, with views of the birdhouses on the property.
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Kaufman Footwear : King. St. plant : exterior and interior, 1994.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains eight photographs of the Kaufman Footwear Limited Factory with interior and exterior views.
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Kaufman Footwear : King. St. plant : interior, 1950's.
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.
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Kaufman Footwear : King. St. plant : interior, 1980's.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains one photograph of the interior of a Kaufman Footwear factory.
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Kaufman Footwear : warehouse on River Road, Kitchener, November, 1979.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains 2 photographs of the River road warehouse front exterior and rear extension in progress.
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Kaufman Footwear : King. St. plant : interior, 1980's : fourth floor construction.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains photographs of the fourth floor construction of the Kaufman Footwear building.
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Kaufman Footwear : King. St. plant : interior, 1980's : office space and showroom under renovation.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains twelve polaroid snapshots of the renovations of the office space and showroom at the Kaufman Footwear Limited factory.
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Kaufman Footwear : King. St. plant : interior, 1980's : renovation.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains five polaroid photographs of the interior of a building under renovation.
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Kaufman Footwear : King. St. plant : machinery : cracker mill installed March 1974.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains one photograph of the Kaufman Footwear cracker mill installed by Canada Machinery Corporation Ltd. with an unidentified male standing beside the machine.
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Kaufman Footwear : King. St. plant : machinery : R.M.S. 450 ton rubber fender press, installed 1979.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains a photograph of a rubber fender press installed for Kaufman footwear.
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Kaufman Footwear : King. St. plant : machinery : R.M.S. twin 60" mill unit, installed 1979.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains a photograph of a piece of Kaufman Footwear machinery.
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Kaufman Footwear : plant in Batavia, New York.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains two photographs of the Kaufman plant in Batavia New York under the name Kaufman Footwear Corporation.
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Kaufman Footwear : unidentified facility : construction of a shed.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains three polaroid photographs of a shed in the process of being built.
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Kaufman Footwear : warehouse in Hamilton.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains fourteen photographs of the interior and exterior of the Kaufman Footwear Limited Hamilton warehouse at 605 Rennie Street, including racks of rubber boots and other production areas.
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Kaufman Footwear : warehouse interiors, vehicles.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains two colour photographs and six black and white photographs of Kaufman Footwear Limited trucks and the interior of a warehouse. Identified on the back of some of the photographs are Trudy Loeppky and Don Mayburry.
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Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains six photographs of an unidentified facility.
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Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Series consists of photographs documenting manufacturing operations at Kaufman Footwear, taken for use in the "Written Standard Practice" manuals.
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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.
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Photographs taken for written standard practice reports.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains two photographs of unidentified equipment, perhaps holding tanks.
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Photographs taken for written standard practice reports : C.D. Quinn photographs.
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.
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Photographs taken for written standard practice reports : negatives of pictures sent to Marathon.
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.
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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.
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Photographs taken for written standard practice reports : photographer possibly C.D. Quinn.
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.
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Photographs taken for written standard practice : new Showertog oven construction.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains three negatives of the construction of the Showertog oven. Includes two unidentified males.
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Photographs taken for written standard practice reports : glove making negatives.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains nine negatives depicting the process of glove making. Includes one unidentified male.
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Photographs taken for written standard practice reports : rubber clothing department.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains four negatives depicting the rubber clothing department with unidentified women at work.
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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.
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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.
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Photographs taken for written standard practice reports : glove plastisol mixing process.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains seven negatives depicting the glove plastisol mixing process. Includes an unidentified male.
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Photographs taken for written standard practice reports : Showertog making conveyor.
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.
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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.
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Photographs taken for written standard practice reports.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains ten photographs of equipment and machinery which are all labeled 136D.
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Photographs taken for written standard practice reports.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains five photographs of an unidentified process and machinery. Includes unidentified employees.
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Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains negatives and photographs of taken for written standard practice reports.
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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.
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Photographs taken for written standard practice reports : prints and negatives regarding plating.
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.
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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.
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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".
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Photographs taken for written standard practice reports.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains original negatives and a number of cut up photographs taped together to make a panorama of a machine or production line.
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Photographs taken for written standard practice reports.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains fourteen negatives and ten photographs of an unidentified process and the materials used in that process, most likely taken for a written standard practice report.
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Photographs taken for written standard practice reports.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains six negatives of photographs most likely taken for a written standard practice report. Includes photographs of assembly line and machinery. A note on the original envelope connects these negatives to reports M-5-1-2-3-4 and -6 and M-5-5.
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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.
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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.
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A photographic history of the woman's Gabor model production, by Ken Holst.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains the production process of women's boots and instructions for the slush moulding technique. Includes 60 photographs.
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Photographs taken for written standard practice reports.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains twenty negatives and eleven photographs of the rubber boot making process, machinery and facilities.
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Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Series consists of photographs featuring Kaufman products, taken for publicity purposes.
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Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains one photograph of a display booth at a trade fair.
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Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains two colour snapshots of a display booth at a trade fair?
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Historical display : footwear.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains one photograph of an historical display of Kaufman footwear through the years.
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Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains one photograph of an historical display taken for the centenary file.
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Kaufman Footwear president John Loucks helps fit Floyd Laughren with budget footwear.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains one posed photograph of Floyd Laughren (Provincial Finance Minister) trying on shoes with Kaufman Footwear president John Loucks kneeling beside him.
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Plaisted Expedition photographs.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains photographs of the Plaisted Expedition, including a portrait of Ralph Plaisted.
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Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains four snapshots of a rabbit in a Sorel boot.
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Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains one photograph of an unidentified person wearing Sorel boots.
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Waterproof clothing : Oily yellow neoprene cape before dry cleaning.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains one negative of an unidentified male wearing a neoprene cape.
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Administration : Advertising and Sales
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Series consists of material relating to advertising and marketing Kaufman products, particularly as directed to the retailer. Includes advertising portfolios, presentation materials, memoranda, catalogues containing advertising information for retailers. This series is not comprehensive.
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Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains spiral bound publicity package containing sample advertisements for 1975.
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How to make an effective sales presentation.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
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Kaufman Footwear : advertising program.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains advertisements, and information regarding the placement, of advertisements.
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Kaufman Footwear co-operative advertising kit.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Advertising kit with sample advertisements.
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Kaufman Footwear Inc. 1976 advertising programme.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains advertisements and catalogues as well as an outline of the fall advertising programme.
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Kaufman Footwear Inc. : advertising programme.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains information on the publication, area, date of issue, and circulation for each advertisement.
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Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains an advertising portfolio in French for Kingtread boots. Includes advertisement copies and a letter to the retailer.
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Kaufman Footwear Limited : advertising campaigns.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains advertising campaigns for Oomphies, Foamtreads, Snowbelles, and the Export.
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Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains memoranda and summaries for marketing management meetings. Includes labels.
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Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains materials regarding the Kaufman Footwear national sales meeting. Includes agenda, presentation materials, 1993 catalogues, and product information.
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Point-of-purchase displays : Kaufman Jiffy display photograph.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains 2 slipper display photographs for the Kaufman Jiffy slipper.
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Retailer support program, 1992 : Sorel Kaufman Canada.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Catalogue contains advertising information for retailers.
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Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains memorandum and substitution analysis for Sorels.
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Part of Kaufman Family collection.
1988 Sorel sales meeting, sales presentation regarding Sorels.
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Say hello to your Sorel advertising program.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
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