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Kaufman Family collection.
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Kaufman Family collection.

  • SCA173
  • Collection

Consists of fonds related to the personal and professional lives of A.R. Kaufman and W.H. Kaufman, and the family-run business Kaufman Footwear.

Kaufman Family

Milestone Night, 1992.

Contains formal portraits of people honoured on Milestone Night. Identified are:
Back row, left to right: Don Mayburry, Waldemar Betker, Larry Tierney, John Juhasz, Gerry MacKenzie, Art Loverock, Warren Roeder, Jurgen Walther.
Front row, left to right: George Klooster, Lepa Sop, Linda Deluso, Maria Andrei, Mat Filevski, Jean Kilbasco, Dorothy Schlosser.

Kaufman Footwear

Baseball, 1920's : Twin City soft ball champions, 1921.

Contains one posed portrait of the Twin City soft ball champions from 1921, their shirts say KR Co. Identified are:
Back row, left to right: H. Young, O. Burghardt, O. Toletski, J. Frank, C. Erdman, I. Weber.
Front row, left to right: W. Roehr, O. Hamel, E. Weber, G. Musselman, A. Levine, G. Hainsworth.

Kaufman Footwear

Hockey, 1930's : Kaufman Rubber Co. Industrial "Y" Senior Champions, 1935-1936.

Three copies of a group portrait of the Kaufman Rubber Co. hockey team, seen in uniform.

Back row, left to right: M. Wanamaker (defence), C. Schlote (wing), J. Loth (coach & manager), W. Plomske (wing), M. Kowalski (wing).

Middle row, left to right: W. Goetz (wing), J. Vrooman (centre), S. Snyder (trainer), E. Wildfong (goal), C. Schmidt (defence), H. Current (defence), C. Steppler (centre).

Front row, left to right: J. Connor (mascot), I. Weber (mascot).

Kaufman Footwear

Social event.

Contains one snapshot of several unidentified individuals at a social event.

Kaufman Footwear

Kaufman Footwear : employees at work : production.

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.

Kaufman Footwear

Photographs taken for written standard practice reports.

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.

Kaufman Footwear

Kaufman Rubber Co. Ltd, Kitchener, Ont. : addition to present factory [set 2] / Albert Kahn, Architect, Walkerville, Ont.

Job No. 964, May 3, 1920. Scale differs.
Sheet 1: Heating riser diagram, plot plan, foundation plan, basement plan.
Sheet 2: Interior elevations of entrance lobby, Mr. Kaufman's office, ceiling plans for entrance lobby, Mr. Kaufman's office, two first floor plans, detail of wicket, detail of shelf and counter in general office.
Sheet 3: Flag pole, roof, second floor, third and fourth floor plans.
Sheet 4: South elevation, corner elevation, East elevation, North elevation, Northwest corner elevation, section on line AA.
Sheet 5: Scale details of main entrance elevation.
Sheet 6: Details: windows, wall sections, toilets, "elevations of Mr. Newton's room".
Sheet 7: Elevations showing windows and doors.
Sheet 8: Elevations: South, corner, East, North, Northwest corner [re windows?].
Sheet 1-S: Columns, dated Apr. 10, 1920.

Kaufman Footwear

Biographical : Awards

Series consists of material relating to awards received by William H. Kaufman from the Kitchener-Waterloo Hospital, the Canadian Footwear Council and National Health and Welfare. Includes clippings, correspondence, ephemera, speech notes, etc.

Kaufman, William Hutton

Canadian Footwear Council.

Material relating to the award given to W.H. Kaufman by the Footwear Council of Canada, naming him "Shoe Person of the Year." Includes correspondence, speech original, handwritten notes, ephemera and clippings.

Kaufman, William Hutton

Kitchener-Waterloo Hospital

Series consists of W.H. Kaufman's files relating to his volunteer committee work with the Kitchener-Waterloo Hospital. Includes correspondence, minutes, notes, proposals, reports, etc.

Kaufman, William Hutton

Kitchener-Waterloo Hospital, 1996.

W.H. Kaufman's file relating to his work as Honorary Campaign Chair of Campaign K-W, a capital fundraising campaign to redevelop the K-W Health Centre. Includes correspondence, proposal, clipping, memoranda, etc.

Kaufman, William Hutton

Waterloo County Health Council

Series consists of William H. Kaufman's files relating to his work with the Waterloo County Health Council, later the Waterloo Region District Health Council. Includes correspondence, handwritten notes, agendas, minutes and reports. Arranged alphabetically.

Kaufman, William Hutton

Waterloo Region Steering Committee, 1976-1977.

W.H. Kaufman's file relating to his work as a member of the Health and Social Planning Steering Committee of the Regional Municipality of Waterloo, 1976-1977. Includes committee correspondence, memoranda, minutes and a report. Includes information about the selection of members for the newly formed District Health Council and Social Resources Council.

Kaufman, William Hutton

Waterloo Region Steering Committee : Planning Conference.

W.H. Kaufman's file relating to his work as a member of the Health and Social Planning Steering Committee of the Regional Municipality of Waterloo. Includes correspondence and minutes, ephemera, a speech transcription and several government acts and regulations relating to health. Includes Articles of the Waterloo County Health Council dated June 29, 1973, proceedings of the Regional Conference on Health and Social Planning held at Wilfrid Laurier Univesity, Oct. 26-27, 1973.

Kaufman, William Hutton

YMCA of Kitchener-Waterloo : Environmental Learning Centre.

Material relating to W.H. Kaufman's work as a member of the K-W YMCA Environmental Learning Centre Steering Committee in 1993. Includes a meeting agenda and supporting documents: project specifications, maps, draft campaign literature and a portfolio containing proposals and background material.

Kaufman, William Hutton

William H. Kaufman Charitable Foundation.

One portfolio of loose papers relating to the re-activation, organization and operation of the Foundation. Includes correspondence, documents relating to the Directors' and Officers' liability and corporation reimbursement insurance policy, handwritten notes, financial statements 1997, Revenue Canada documents, agreements, minutes, reports, and planning documents.

Kaufman, William Hutton

Kaufman, A.R. : autobiographical pieces.

Contains autobiographical sketches written by A.R. Kaufman. Includes one ms. (4 l., originals) and two tss., one dated May 1953 (ts. carbon) and one dated Nov. 1969 (1 leaf, original and carbon). Some of the "scrap" paper used for composition is correspondence carbons.

Kaufman, A. R. (Alvin Ratz)

Kaufman, A.R. : Kitchener-Waterloo YMCA.

Photocopy of "Report of the President, May 12th, 1921." In this report A.R. Kaufman, outgoing president of the provisional Board of directors, summarizes two years of activity re-organizing the YMCA .

Kaufman, A. R. (Alvin Ratz)

The Kaufman Building.

One photograph of a group of six women in uniform on the steps of a building, possibly a hospital in China, with a plaque: "The Kaufman Building." Note on verso: "For Mr. Kaufman." Identifications on the verso: "One of the nurses of [Chinese characters] in P.I., the doctor who is helping us in P.I. Dr. Hau".

Kaufman, A. R. (Alvin Ratz)

Scrapbook: "Canada" and "Trial".

One scrapbook belonging to A.R. Kaufman, containing clippings relating to birth control, primarily from Canadian newspapers. Includes cartoons, clippings from area newspapers, clippings relating to the establishment of a birth control clinic in Windsor, clippings relating to religious groups, birth control and eugenics. One section of the scrapbook contains clippings relating to the Eatview Case and the trial of Dorothea Palmer.

Kaufman, A. R. (Alvin Ratz)

Kaufman, A.R. : trip to England and France, 1929.

One typescript (original) by A.R. Kaufman (3 l., original) with title: "Plymouth to London, London to Paris, May 1929." Also contains untitled, undated 19 l. typescript (original) with observations about England and Scotland.

Kaufman, A. R. (Alvin Ratz)

Kaufman, A.R. : trip to Russia and Europe, July 9 to Aug. 14, 1963.

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)

Kaufman, A.R. : trip to Russia and Europe, July 9 to Aug. 14, 1963 : interviews.

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)

Kaufman, Jacob : biographical.

Includes biographical material written about Jacob Kaufman. One is a transcript of a "Biographical sketch" written at the time of his death in 1920 (2. l., typescript); the other is "History of Jacob Kaufman, Dec. 1, 1936" (4 l., typescript carbon), and the published version from the Waterloo Chronicle : "History of Mr. Jacob Kaufman" Also includes a letter from A.R. Kaufman to John Kaufman dated March 8, 1938.

Kaufman, A. R. (Alvin Ratz)

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

Kaufman Rubber Company

Series consists of materials created by Kaufman Rubber and Kaufman Footwear. Includes primarily sales catalogues for Kaufman Footwear as well as ephemera, a history of the rubber business and a poster for Kaufman Lofts, which are in the old Kaufman Rubber building.

Kaufman Family

Kaufman Footwear mural.

File consists of one photograph showing the Kaufman Footwear mural that was painted by Monte Wright and a brochure on the history of the mural, which identifies Mexican muralists such as Diego River and Orozco, as a source of inspiration in Wright's work.

Kaufman Family

Barwell extruder.

File consists of materials relating to the Barwell extruder. Includes a user manual, a write up on how to fix a problem, and information on an upgrade that was done to the machine.

Kaufman Footwear

Correspondence.

File consists of correspondence between Gary Peysar and other employees and departments at Kaufman Footwear

Kaufman Footwear

Mary Kaufman honorary president certificate.

One certificate of appreciation from the YWCA Kitchener-Waterloo appointing Mary Kaufman as honorary president of the organization. The certificate is signed by past-presidents including Bertha Lang, Sarah Lang, Martha Rieder, Lottie Pequegnat, Caroline Augustine, Rosie Pollock, Sara Breithaupt and others.

Young Women's Christian Association of Kitchener-Waterloo

Scrapbook.

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)

Family photographs.

Family photographs of the Kaufman family with envelope and notes. Includes photographs of A. R. and Jean Kaufman and their children in different attitudes (with animals, cars, and posing in front of different buildings) and locations (including Port Elgin, Algonquin Park, Highland Inn - Moonlights, Rochester House and gardens, Grand River, and Cressman Woods). Also contains a poem written by Sally Jean Kaufman at the age of 9 (1926).

Kaufman, A. R. (Alvin Ratz)

Masonic medal.

Medal from the Royal City Lodge of Perfection with an enamel motive of A. & A. S. R. Canada (referring to the 50 years sterling membership in freemasonry) awarded to A. R. Kaufman on October 20, 1920.

Kaufman, A. R. (Alvin Ratz)

Photograph of A. R. Kaufman.

Two copies of a photograph and a printing plate of A. R. Kaufman possibly taken by Morral Photography and credited to the International Press Service. One photograph is pasted on a cardboard, the other one is printed on cardboard.

Kaufman, A. R. (Alvin Ratz)

Springfield College.

Materials related to Springfield College. Includes a program for the Springfield College 68th Commencement Dinner Dance (June 12, 1954) with annotations in pencil and pen about the attendance, a certificate for A. R. Kaufman reception of the degree of Doctor of Humanics, and photographs of A. R. Kaufman receiving the certificate on June 13, 1954.

Kaufman, A. R. (Alvin Ratz)

Anniversary reception.

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)

Retirement files.

News related to A. R. Kaufman's retirement. Includes newspaper clippings and photocopies of clippings.

Kaufman, A. R. (Alvin Ratz)

Silver Jubilee medal.

Materials related to the medal commemorating the Silver Jubilee of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth II. Includes medal, with the case, information about the medal, and certificate awarding the medal to A. R. Kaufman.

Kaufman, A. R. (Alvin Ratz)

YMCA.

Materials related to A. R. Kaufman's participation in the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) of Canada. Includes a certificate acknowledging Kaufman's participation in the organization as director; correspondence, photograph, and newspaper clipping related to Kaufman's reception of plaque and life membership; a certificate of recognition of Kaufman’s voluntary service to the YMCA; and two photographs of the Kitchener-Waterloo YMCA building in the 1950s.

Kaufman, A. R. (Alvin Ratz)

Charts.

IBM measurement charts, diagramming templates, reference cards, card punches-verifiers, and flowcharting templates.

Kaufman, A. R. (Alvin Ratz)

Administration

Series consists of material relating to the administration of various aspects of Kaufman Rubber operations from 1927 to 1986. There are many gaps and the files are from several departments. Includes annual production reports from 1933 to 1955, sales reports from 1932-1964, records of special orders, government contracts, memoranda, and cost accounting information.

Kaufman Footwear

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