- SCA173-GA148-8-103
- File
- 1971-1979
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains biographical and historical newspaper clippings (some photocopies).
Kaufman Footwear
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Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains biographical and historical newspaper clippings (some photocopies).
Kaufman Footwear
Interviews : Kaufman, William H and Irvin E. Weber.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains material relating to interviews done by Frances Hoffman with W. Kaufman and Irvin E. Weber, separately and together. Includes correspondence with Frances Hoffman, drafts, notes, transcripts and a release form signed by Weber.
Kaufman Footwear
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains material relating to interviews done by Frances Hoffman with Stu Snider. Includes questions, transcript.
Kaufman Footwear
Compound sheets, #200-1 to #240-6 (file 1 of 2).
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains compound sheets for various materials. Each sheet explains the amount of each ingredient that goes into the compound and how much the compound costs.
Kaufman Footwear
K-R Ro-Search report #34 : material and times : women's Welland.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Note on folder: "material consumption and working times for women's welland boot size 6."
Kaufman Footwear
K.R. Ro-Search report #45 : equipment requirements : 1,000,000 pairs of footwear/year.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Note on folder: "Equipment requirements for 400,000 pairs of Buskins a year; 200,000 child's Welland per year; 250,000 of men's Humber per year; and 150,000 women's plastic Showertogs per year."
Kaufman Footwear
K.R. Ro-Search : written standard practice no. M-2 : footwear outsole press.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Note on folder "General description of outsole presses and use for footwear," by W.H. Bechtel. Includes 30 photographs.
Kaufman Footwear
K.R. Ro-Search : written standard practice no. P-3.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Written standard practice for electroforming of copper moulds for use in vinyl footwear production. Includes 11 photographs.
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
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
Pleating of pockets into vinyl shoes by means of heat.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains instructions for pleating of pockets into vinyl shoes with illustrations.
Kaufman Footwear
Testing and analysis of rubber procedures.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains procedures for abrasion testing of raincoat materials using the Taber Abraser; chemical analysis of rubber products and interpretation of analysis; process for adhesion tests; tests for cements and fabrics; various cleaning and testing processes for glass and copper; instructions for mixing emulsion, testing cork, vulcanized rubber, and gasoline as well as preparing sulfur and silk screen inks. Also includes colour bleeding tests for leather, and instructions for mixing plastisol.
Kaufman Footwear
Business articles and magazines (file 4 of 6).
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Kaufman Footwear
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Fonds consists of material relating to the history, operation and products of the Kaufman Rubber Company, later Kaufman Footwear. Includes catalogues of products, documentation of formulae, compounds, in-house "written standard practice" manuals illustrating industrial processes. Includes corespondence, clippings, ephemera, memoranda, photographs, publications, reports, and sound recordings.
Kaufman Footwear
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains the tennis production report and the rubber production report. Includes lines of shoes or boots with the number of pairs sold and what countries they were sold in.
Kaufman Footwear
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains the tennis production report and the rubber production report. Includes lines of shoes or boots with the number of pairs sold and what countries they were sold in.
Kaufman Footwear
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains a production report for the calendar year. Includes a list of product lines, with the number of products sold in the domestic market and as exports.
Kaufman Footwear
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains a production report for the calendar year. Includes a list of product lines, with the number of products sold in the domestic market and as exports.
Kaufman Footwear
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains spiral bound publicity package containing sample advertisements for 1975.
Kaufman Footwear
Kaufman Footwear co-operative advertising kit.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Advertising kit with sample advertisements.
Kaufman Footwear
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains an advertising portfolio in French for Kingtread boots. Includes advertisement copies and a letter to the retailer.
Kaufman Footwear
Kaufman Footwear Limited : advertising campaigns.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains advertising campaigns for Oomphies, Foamtreads, Snowbelles, and the Export.
Kaufman Footwear
Strike, 1960 : University of Western Ontario case study.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains material relating to the 1960 strike as prepared for a University of Western Ontario business case study. Includes background on the Kaufman strike, copies of correspondence and memoranda relating to the strike, and photocopied newspaper clippings.
Kaufman Footwear
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Series consists of material relating to the administration of personnel, primarily salary information. Contains paybooks from 1909 to 1912, cheque information, unclaimed wage information and pay worksheets.
Kaufman Footwear
The Kaufman Rubber Co. Ltd, Berlin, Ontario : pay book.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains employees names, hours worked, rate of pay and addresses.
Kaufman Footwear
The Kaufman Rubber Co. Ltd., Berlin, Ontario : pay book.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains employees names, rate of pay, hours worked and amount paid.
Kaufman Footwear
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains information regarding employees salaries. Includes a list of employee earnings at rates in excess of $2,500 per year.
Kaufman Footwear
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains three Truckfest programmes for 1992, 1993, and 1994.
Kaufman Footwear
Dushore plant, Dushore Pennsylvania (file 1 of 2).
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains material relating to the Kaufman Dushore plant, in Dushore Pennsylvania. Includes press releases regarding closure of the plant, newspaper articles and clippings, meeting agendas, business cards, printed emails and facsimiles, memoranda, correspondence, employee information including wage and salary information, cost analysis, building lease information, invoices, and bills.
Kaufman Footwear
Dushore plant, Dushore Pennsylvania (file 2 of 2).
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains material relating to the Kaufman Dushore plant in Dushore Pennsylvania. Includes phone numbers, wage information, employee policies, memoranda, maps of Pennsylvania, bills and invoices, correspondence, job descriptions, insurance policy paperwork, building lease information, and copies of facsimiles.
Kaufman Footwear
Sherbrooke, Québec plant : Oomphies shoes.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains material relating to the Sherbrooke, Québec plant. Includes correspondence, advertisements, memoranda, and product review.
Kaufman Footwear
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains the Kaufman Rubber (Ontario) Limited Group Hospital and Surgical Insurance Plan.
Kaufman Footwear
Waterloo County Grand River Park Ltd : certificate for 50 shares, signed by Homer Watson.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains a certificate for 50 shares of the Waterloo County Grand River Park Ltd company signed by Homer Watson. Includes a note from 1979 that states that the shares have no value because the Waterloo County Grand River Park Ltd company does not exist anymore.
Kaufman Footwear
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains a memo. Notice about the 1984 Kaufman Christmas party.
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
Employees : photographs received.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains 4 photographs, two of an employee recognition event, one of a truck, and one of a social event. Includes identification of one photo as belonging to Harry Johnston.
Kaufman Footwear
Historical information : flow sheet.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains a flow chart for rubber goods manufacturing preparation.
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 information received from S. Bellingham.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains three articles on A.R. Kaufman's role regarding birth control sent by Susan Bellingham to Mr. Wilfrid X. Toole.
Kaufman Footwear
Kaufman Footwear Building : history and heritage designation.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains material relating to the history of the Kaufman building on King Street. Includes newspaper clippings about the building, and about its designation under the Ontario Heritage Act. Includes invitations to a ceremony in honour of this designation, and a magazine article about the architect, Albert Khan. Includes 1 photograph of a painting of the Kaufman building.
Kaufman Footwear
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
One copy of a descriptive booklet "The Kaufman Rubber Company", containing photographs of the factory and descriptions of work carried out. Also contains a publication about the history of the Kaufman Footwear company titled "William H. Kaufman Inc".
Kaufman Footwear
Rubber conference, Berlin, Ont., 1916.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains The Shoe and Leather Journal for 1916, with a photocopy of the article on a conference held in Berlin and hosted by Kaufman Rubber Co.
Kaufman Footwear
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains material relating to the Centenary Committee's research on archives and conservation. Includes correspondence to and from committee members, memoranda, newsletters, conservation publications, and newspaper clippings.
Kaufman Footwear
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains material relating to the Centenary Committee's research on creating Kaufman Footwear archives. Includes newsletters, flyers, newspaper clippings, correspondence to and from committee members, memoranda, notes, and articles. Includes 1 photograph.
Kaufman Footwear
Compound sheets, #200-1 to #240-6 (file 2 of 2).
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains compound sheets for various materials. Each sheet explains the amount of each ingredient that goes into the compound and how much the compound costs.
Kaufman Footwear
Compounds 200-220 : I.K. Weber.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains compound sheets with a list on each sheet of the materials used for the compound and the total cost of the compound. Originally in a binder belonging to I.K. Weber. Each page is initialled by J.C. Howard.
Kaufman Footwear
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains compound sheets for the Foamtread lab with a list of the materials used for the compound and the total cost of the compound. Also includes mixing instructions. Binder sheets initialled by W.H.B. (William H. Bechtel) and/or C.S.F.
Kaufman Footwear
K.R. Ro-Search report #39 : examination of hamgaper compounds.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains examination of hamgaper compounds : black upper gum, black soling, and yellow soling. Includes tensile, aging, and abrasion tests, and a compound sheet.
Kaufman Footwear
K.R. Ro-Search : written standard practice no. M-4 : footwear vulcanizers etc.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Note on folder "Information about footwear vulcanizers, control instruments, air circulation, vent or vacuum cures, vulcanizer cars, etc., as applied to footwear curing, also curing cycles," by William H. Bechtel. Includes 18 photographs, and some blueprint drawings of machinery.
Kaufman Footwear
K-R Ro-Search : written standard practice no. M-5 : boot conveyors.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains written standard practice for the "Construction and operation of boot conveyors," by William H. Bechtel. Includes 6 photographs and some blueprint drawings of machinery.
Kaufman Footwear
K.R. Ro-Search : written standard practice no. P-1.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Written standard practice for plastisol-coated cotton glove production. Includes equipment and material requirements, costs, methods, lay-out, and production results. Includes 22 photographs.
Kaufman Footwear
K-R Ro-Search : written standard practice no. P-1 : plastic coated fabric gloves.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains written standard practice for "Plastic coated fabric glove production equipment and material requirements, costs, methods, lay-out, and production results," by R.V. Klassen and W.H. Bechtel. Includes plastisol formula sheets, and 19 photographs.
Kaufman Footwear
K-R Ro-Search : written standard practice no. R-2 : William's plasticity.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains written standard practice for "Plasticity and recovery of rubber and rubber-like materials by the Williams Parallel Plate Plastometer at K. R. Co.," by G.H. Thompson and W.H. Bechtel. Includes 12 photographs and some 4 graphs.
Kaufman Footwear
K-R Ro-Search : written standard practice no. R-3 : N.B.S. abrasion.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains written standard practice for a "Standard method of test for abrasion resistance of rubber compounds at K.R. Co.," by G.H. Thompson and William H. Bechtel. Includes 5 photographs.
Kaufman Footwear
K-R Ro-Search : written standard practice no. R-4 : the use of GR-S in rubber footwear.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains written standard practice for the use of GR-S in rubber footwear with general information and compounding information, by William H. Bechtel.
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
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
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, signed J.C. Howard.
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, signed J.C. Howard.
Kaufman Footwear
Plastisol formula specification sheets.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains plastisol formula specifications and compound sheets for various forms of plastisol. R.V. Klassen's factory binder.
Kaufman Footwear
Ro-Search confidential rubber compounds.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains compound sheets for confidential technical data with a list of the materials used for the compound. By Ro-Search Inc., Waynesville, North Carolina.
Kaufman Footwear
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
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
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
File belonging to Brent I. Weber. Contains clippings and photocopies of business related articles to be read by Kaufman staff.
Kaufman Footwear
Business articles and magazines (file 2 of 6).
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Kaufman Footwear
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Informal group portrait of 10 men with fish and fishing gear. A.R. Kaufman standing at far right.
Kaufman Footwear
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.
Kaufman Footwear
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.
Kaufman Footwear
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.
Kaufman Footwear
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Series consists of photographs taken as publicity to document significant Kaufman Footwear events.
Kaufman Footwear
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.
Kaufman Footwear
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.
Kaufman Footwear
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.
Kaufman Footwear
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.
Kaufman Footwear
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.
Kaufman Footwear
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.
Kaufman Footwear
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.
Kaufman Footwear
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains six photographs of an unidentified facility.
Kaufman Footwear
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.
Kaufman Footwear
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.
Kaufman Footwear
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.
Kaufman Footwear
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.
Kaufman Footwear
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.
Kaufman Footwear
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.
Kaufman Footwear
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.
Kaufman Footwear
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.
Kaufman Footwear
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.
Kaufman Footwear
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
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.
Kaufman Footwear
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains one photograph of a display booth at a trade fair.
Kaufman Footwear
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains two colour snapshots of a display booth at a trade fair?
Kaufman Footwear
Historical display : footwear.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains one photograph of an historical display of Kaufman footwear through the years.
Kaufman Footwear
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains one photograph of an historical display taken for the centenary file.
Kaufman Footwear
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.
Oral history interviews recorded for the Centenary Committee.
Kaufman Footwear
Employee interviews, tape 5 : Walter Cook, John Beder.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Oral history interviews recorded for the Centenary Committee.
Kaufman Footwear
Employee interviews, tape 7 : Pearl Uttley, Lloyd Koehler, Alex Erdman, Evelyn Habel.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Oral history interviews recorded for the Centenary Committee.
Kaufman Footwear
Employee interviews, tape 12 : Dorothy Henrich, Bill Plompski, Carl Schlote, Dorothy Ludolph.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Oral history interviews recorded for the Centenary Committee.
Kaufman Footwear
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Oral history interviews recorded for the Centenary Committee.
Kaufman Footwear
Employee interviews, tape 18 : Joe Bodi, Gordie Good, Joe Dymtryshn.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Oral history interviews recorded for the Centenary Committee.
Kaufman Footwear