File consists of two identical photographs of factory employees of Dare Co. Ltd. from 1951. The photograph was taken on the grounds outside of the factory and the employees are mostly women and are dressed in white baking outfits. Employees are identified on a separate piece of paper.

Included in the photo:

Atkinson, [?]
Beirs, Amanda
Burkhardt, Emmerson
Clendenrusig, Bill
Crooks, [?]
Crooks, Phoebe
Dare, Carl
Dargell, Carl
Dawe, Marg
de Uries, [?]
Dodge, George
Erb, Erma
Erb, Wilma
Fehreubach, [?]
Fischer, [?]
Forler, Inez
Gellner, Susan
Grishow, Doug
Hopp, Oscar
Headley, Lila
Heintz, Mary
Homuth, Howard
Hopf, Bill
Huntz, Martha
Jantzi, John
Kaufman, Lorraine
Kinzie, Orpha
Kwiakoski, Bill
Lotzke, Lorne
Lwandowski, Rose
Meinzinger, Dolores
Menyes, Maria
Mezer, Kay
Montag, Mari
Norton, Edith
Reist, Orval
Rouse, Vi
Ruhl, Joan
Russell, Jack
Schmidt, Reggie
Schmitt, Cully
Schuster, [?]
Shantz, [?]
Shantz, Abe
Shantz, Eileen
Shoemaker, Marybelle
Sider, Johnny
Stelmach, Joan
Street, Dorothy
Stuckerat, Helen
Trompke, Emdie
Wagner, Russell
Weber, Jeanette
Weiler, Alma
White, Jenny
Windsor, Marion
Wittie, Harold
Wright, Ruby
[?], Ann
[?], Anna
[?], Barb
[?], Bill
[?], Connie
[?], Evelyn
[?], George
[?], George
[?], Gladys
[?], Gwen
[?], Joan
[?], Johnny
[?], Margaret
[?], Margaret
[?], Olga
[?], Olga
[?], Rose
[?], Sally
[?], Steve
[?], Tom
[?], Winnie

File consists of two identical photographs of unidentified employees of Dare Co. Ltd. at Carl Dargell's 50th anniversary at the Blue Moon Hotel in Petersburg, October 3, 1958.

File consists of one snapshot of C.M. Dare and an unidentified man. Verso reads "Howe Candy Christmas party Roberts Marine Room, Hamilton. Dec. 17/52. C.M. Dare (right)."

File consists of three photographs of the Dare Biscuit display at the Kitchener Exhibition of Progress, held in October 1948.

File consists of one real photograph postcard showing the C.H. Doerr Christmas samples. A description on an accompanying paper reads "Jo. Kerr in Elmira Oct. 16, 1907 xmas samples R.B. Doerr."

File consists of five photographs of employees at work in the Dare Company Limited biscuit plant in Sunnyside, Kitchener. Duplicates are present. Some photographs contain captions on verso: moving trays of cookies into/out of the reel oven; dough forming, near the entrance to the reel oven; filling tins of soda crackers; 1944 - production for Defense Dept.; behind the reel oven.

File consists of seven photographs taken at the Dare factory on the corner of Weber and Breithaupt Streets in Kitchener showing damage after a fire in February, 1943.

Contains one binder labelled "Photos." The binder contains a black and white newspaper advertisement "Our first customer" [ca. 1967]; a Union Carbide plastic products advertisement featuring Dare biscuits; black and white photographs of products; portraits of staff; the interior and exterior of the plant in Surrey, B.C.; new wage agreement at the Surrey plant; an advertisement for a contest; and store displays. The majority of the photographs are labelled.

• Bill Mitchell, 2 photographs : b&w ; 13 x 17 cm
• J.D. Burke, 2 photographs : b&w ; 13 x 17 cm
• John McKay, 2 photographs : b&w ; 12 x 17 cm
• John McKay, Doug Soanes, Ken O’Hara, Jack Graham, and C.M. Dare at the plant in Surrey, B.C. January, 1962, 2 photographs : b&w ; 17 x 13 cm
• Dare Coconut creams, 2 photographs : b&w ; 13 x 18 cm
• Dare Whole Wheat Digestive biscuits, 2 photographs : b&w ; 18 x 13 cm
• Dare Potato Chips, 2 photographs : b&w ; 13 x 18 cm
• Dare Candy Chest of Fruit Jellies, 2 photographs : b&w ; 18 x 13 cm
• Bert Luckhurst, Peterboro, 1 photograph : b&w; on mount 22 x 27 cm
• Dare Foods personnel, Mr. J. M. Lumby (left), members of the Employees’ Committee, and Mr. K. K. O’Hara (left centre) are shown with Mr. William White of Local 457 of the Bakery and Confectionery Workers Union, after satisfactory negotiation of a new wage agreement at the Surrey plant, 1 photograph : b&w ; 21 x 26 cm
• Mr. K. K. O’Hara (left) of Dare Foods shown here with Mr. William White of Local 475 of the Bakery and Confectionery Workers Union after satisfactory negotiation of a new wage agreement., 1 photograph : b&w ; 26 x 21 cm
• Bill Gill, 1 photograph : b&w ; 13 x 17 cm
• Tom Warren, 1 photograph : b&w ; 12 x 18 cm
• John Bull, 1 photograph : b&w ; 12 x 17 cm
• B. Sanders, 1 photograph : b&w ; 12 x 18 cm
• D. Grischow, 1photograph : b&w ; 13 x 17 cm
• C.A. Preistman, 1 photograph : b&w ; 13 x 17 cm
• J.M. Langley, 1 photograph : b&w ; 13 x 17 cm
• Deal B, 1 photograph : b&w ; 17 x 26 cm
• Deal A, 1 photograph : b&w ; 18 x 26 cm
• Dare biscuit display, 1 photograph : colour ; 13 x 18 cm
• Dare's potato chip display, 1 photograph : colour ; 13 x 18 cm
• Dare Lemon Cremes, 1 photograph : b&w ; 13 x 18 cm
• Product display, 1 photograph : b&w ; 16 x 26 cm
• Dare's and Dare potato chips, 1 photograph : b&w ; 16 x 26 cm
• Dare Chocolate Chip cookies, 1 photograph : b&w ; 13 x 17 cm
• Saratoga by Dare's potato chips, 1 photograph : b&w ; 13 x 17 cm
• Dare products and space exploration buttons, 1 photograph : b&w ; 13 x 17 cm
• Devonsheer Melba Toast by Dare's, 1 photograph : b&w ; 12 x 10 cm
• Dare Romper Room and Peanut Crunch biscuits, 1 photograph : b&w ; 13 x 17 cm
• Step Right Up Folks promotion, 1 photograph : b&w ; 23 x 17 cm
• Dare Delicious! display, 1 photograph : b&w ; 15 x 26 cm
• John McKay standing beside machinery at the Surrey plant, 1 photograph : b&w ; 13 x 17 cm ; 21 x 26 cm
• Machinery at the Surrey plant, 2 photographs : b&w ; 17 x 13 cm ; 21 x 26 cm
• Interior of Surrey plant, 1 photograph : b&w ; 13 x 17 cm
• Display, 1 photograph : b&w ; 9 x 15 cm
• Exterior of Surrey plant, 1 photograph : b&w ; 17 x 11 cm

Photograph of employees posed for the camera with sweet cream sodas boxes and biscuits inside the C.H. Doerr & Company building.

Photograph of employees women standing beside machinery in the interior of the C.H. Doerr & Company building, likely the candy manufacturing section of the plant.

Photograph of men and women employees, some seen wearing white aprons, standing beside machinery inside the C.H. Doerr & Company building, likely the the biscuit manufacturing section of the plant.

Photograph of John Doerr sitting in the driver's seat of the Doerr's Candies delivery car in front of The Gettas Restaurant on May 1, 1916.

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.

Photograph of the exterior of the C.H. Doerr & Co. Confectionery Works building. A man in a suit and hat is standing in the front doorway and a driver is visible standing on a horse drawn cart piled with boxes at the side of the building.

Photograph of employees and a horse drawn delivery sleigh, stacked with boxes, outside of the C.H. Doerr & Co. Biscuit & Confectionery Works buildings.

Photograph of employees standing outside of C.H. Doerr & Co. Biscuit & Confectionery Works looking at camera. They are seen standing on the front steps of the building and next to horse-drawn delivery buggies parked along the side.

Contains snapshots of the construction of what appears to be part of Waterloo City Hall.

Contains a portrait of members of the K-W Civitan Club for the Kitchener and Waterloo Community Foundation 1996 annual report. Includes identifications on verso:
Left to right: John Askin (President) and Murray Grose (Treasurer).

Contains snapshots, portraits, and formal group portraits of people associated with the Kitchener and Waterloo Community Foundation and of grant recipients and structures built with grant money. Includes some identifications:

Portraits: William Moeser, E.B. Sims, Ron Sills, Merv Lahn, John S. Acheson, Cecil Cornwell.
Formal group portrait, left to right: Audre Moser, Gerry Moser.

Contains a portrait and slides of the K-W Health Centre. Includes identifications on the portrait: Left to right: Cynthia Nash, Heather [an infant].

Contains a posed photograph with identification on verso of Diane Schmidt.

Contains two photographs with identifications on the verso: left to right: Beike Cammaert (child care worker), Karen Hutchison (President), Manuela Almeida (Executive Director).

Photograph of an unidentified child standing in front of a Boer War monument.

Snapshot of an unidentified man standing next to a Boer War monument with his hat perched on the statue.

Snapshot of an unidentified woman standing next to a car.

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.

File consists of one photograph of the exterior of the Kaufman Rubber Co. building taken in winter. Identification from verso.

File consists of one photograph of the exterior of the Kaufman Rubber Co. building taken from slightly down the street.

File consists of one aerial photograph of Central Aircraft Manufacturing Co. Ltd. in London Ontario. The buildings in the photograph are numbered and identified.

File consists of one poster advertising the Kaufman Lofts. The poster is double sided with two different advertisements.

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.

File consists of ten architectural drawings (bound together) showing proposed additions to the A.R. Kaufman Family YMCA. Plans are marked set no. 10.

Material relating to Kaufman Furniture Ltd. in Collingwood, Ont. and International Woodworkers of America. Includes correspondence, agreements, handwritten notes and drafts, reports, memoranda to employees and clippings.

Contains a newspaper clipping of a picture of the Kaufman Footwear hockey team for 1935 under the headline "Kaufman's Team Reaches Playoffs". Caption below photo reads: "Reaching the play-offs in the Kitchener Industrial Hockey League, Kaufman's team are show above. Back row - Alf Schaefer, coach; M. Kowalski, H. Schaefer, M. Wannamaker, C. Schlote, W. Plomski, E. Wannamaker, J. Frank, C. Steppler and J. Loth, manager. Front row - E. Good, A. Bernhardt and H. Current; I. Weber, mascot. - (Photo by Denton, Kitchener.)

Contains photographs of Geraldine Knarr and several unidentified women in what is identified as the sewing room on Siebert St. in 1982.

Contains twenty negatives and eleven photographs of the rubber boot making process, machinery and facilities.

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.

Contains photographs of the fourth floor construction of the Kaufman Footwear building.

Contains 2 photographs of the River road warehouse front exterior and rear extension in progress.

Contains one photograph of the interior of the Kaufman Rubber Co., Limited factory with a view of various types of machinery.

Contains eight photographs of the Kaufman Footwear Limited Factory with interior and exterior views.

Contains three photographs of the Kaufman factory building on King Street in Kitchener.

Contains six photographs of the Kaufman building, two of which are identified on verso as decorated for Coronation, May 12, 1937.

Contains one photograph of the exterior of the Kaufman Rubber Co. building with a frame house in the foreground.

Contains 13 snapshots with negatives of the Kaufman Footwear Limited distribution center on Glasgow street.

Contains three photographs of two different Kaufman murals in the progress of being painted.

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".

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.

Contains two modern print copy negatives and one modern reproduction photograph of Mike Mueller at work in the Kaufman Rubber Co., Limited factory.

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.

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.

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.

Informal group portrait of 10 men with fish and fishing gear. A.R. Kaufman standing at far right.

Contains two modern print copy negatives and two formal group portraits of the Kaufman Rubber Co., Limited hockey team. Includes eleven unidentified males.

Back row: ?, ?, W. Plomske, ?, M. Kowalski, ?

Front row: [J. Vrooman?], ?, ?, C. Steppler, C. Schmidt

One formal group portrait of the Kaufman Rubber Co. hockey club.

Back row, left to right: C. Guenthen (right defence), C. Schlote (left wing), W. Plomske (right wing), J. Hummel (right defence), M. Kowalski (right wing), E. Rockel (left wing).

Front row, left to right: E. Wildfong (goal), J. Vrooman (centre), J. Loth (manager & coach), C. Schmidt (left defence), H. Voll (goal).

Three copies of a group portraits of the Kaufman hockey team, seen in uniform.

Back row, left to right: A. Shaefer, M. Kowalski, H. Schaefer, M. Wannamaker, C. Schlote, W. Plomski, E. Wannamaker, J. Frank, C. Steppler, J. Loth.

Middle row, left to right: E. Good, A. Bernhardt, H. Current.

Front row, left to right: I. Weber.

Group portrait of the Kaufman Rubber Co., Limited hockey team, seen in uniform.

Back row: ?, ?, ?, ?, W. Plomske, ?, ?

Front row: M. Kowalski, ?, ?, [W. Wildfong], Harold Current, ?, C. Steppler

Group portrait of the Kaufman Rubber Co., Limited girl's softball team, seen in uniform, along with bat boy at front.

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).

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.

Contains two original photographs and two reproduction photographs of two different informal group portraits of eight unidentified women. Caption on envelope states that these are "pictures of a trip Mr. Kaufman and others went on when trouble with the car, Irvin was along".

Informal snapshot of A.R. Kaufman and an unidentified man standing in a field.

Snapshot of A.R. Kaufman on his horse prince.

Photograph of the general office area with employees, men and women, at their desks.

Photograph of A.R. Kaufman posed for the camera while seated at a large wooden desk in his office.

Contains material relating to a temporary women's museum project for International Women's Day. Includes notes, 13 photographs of the exhibit with unidentified individuals in them, a list of events, drafts of short biographies of famous women scientists, drafts of display material for the exhibit, magazine clippings, and a photocopied newspaper article.

Photograph of 5 unidentified employees, four women and one man, standing around a machine used for colouring leather.

Photograph of an unidentified employee feeding leather into a buffing machine.

Photograph of two unidentified employees standing on either side of a suspended platform toggle drying a hide.

Photograph of an unidentified employee staking shoe upper leather to soften.

Photograph of an unidentified employee, standing with back to camera at a piece of equipment, shaving shoe upper leather for the Air Force shoe. Leather shavings are visible on the bottom of the equipment and on the floor next to it.

Photograph of an unidentified employee spray finishing leather.

Photograph of two unidentified employees, a woman and a man standing on either side of a large piece of equipment, embossing case leather.

Photograph of three unidentified employees gauging and splitting leather for belts on either side of a piece of equipment.

Photograph of two unidentified women workers, standing side by side along a work table, finishing strap leather backs. Both are wearing rubber gloves and using brushes on the leather.

Photograph of an unidentified employee rolling strap leather.

Photograph of two unidentified employees brushing and selecting leather.

Photograph of an unidentified employee, seen standing with back to camera, setting out harness leather on equipment.

Photograph of two unidentified employees working with waterproofing equipment.

Photograph of an unidentified employee, seated on a stool with back to camera, inspecting and sorting cut soles.

Photograph of two unidentified employees, a woman and a man, cutting and lining up soles.

Contains a photograph of four unidentified employees standing around a wooden work bench grading sole leather.

Contains a photograph of two unidentified employees, one with back to camera, preparing sole leather for finishing.

Photograph of an unidentified employee setting out sole leather.

Photograph of an unidentified employee handling sole leather from oil drums next to equipment with leather hanging from racks.

Photograph of an unidentified employee in the Lang Tanning Company Limited tan yard moving a pack of leather.

Photograph of the Lang Tanning Company Limited "Beam house".

Photograph of the refrigerated hide storage area at Lang Tanning Company Limited with two unidentified men stacking hides.

Photograph of the chemical laboratory at the Lang Tanning Company Limited with employees, four women and one man, working along tables covered in glass jars and equipment.

Photograph of a drawing of the Lang Tanning Company Limited building on King St. West in Kitchener as it was in 1850.

Series consists of a collection of photographs originally contained in a photograph album created to showcase the activities of The Lang Tanning Company Limited. It tells the story of a three generation manufacturing company and depicts several steps in the leather tanning process. Each photo includes a typed caption indicating what is captured in the corresponding image. Employees, predominantly white men, appear throughout though a small number or photos include white women at work on various stages of leather processing. No employee identifications are included.

One undated photograph showing a Breithaupt Leather Co. truck in front of the Shipping Dept. at the tannery, which was located in Kitchener, Ont.

A photograph of Edna Louise Augustine and Mary Ham in front of the fireplace. The photograph was taken in the living room of the house at 22 Margaret Avenue, Kitchener.

A photograph of Mary Ham on the front steps of the house at 22 Margaret Avenue, Kitchener.

A photograph of Caroline Margaret Barbara Augustine and Mary Ham standing outside of the house at 25 Margaret Avenue in Kitchener. File also includes a paper with information identifying people in the photograph.

A photograph of John Ross Augustine and Mary Ham standing outside of the house at 22 Margaret Avenue, Kitchener in the snow.

A photograph of a child in front of the house at 22 Margaret Avenue, Kitchener standing in the snow.

Image of (left to right) Martha Rieder, Elspeth Breithaupt, Emma Ratz Kaufman, Edna Louise Augustine, Mary Ham, unidentified adult, Ruth Mary Hagmeier. The group is seen smiling at the camera, standing on a beach and dressed for warm, sunny weather.

Image of (left to right) Elspeth Breithaupt, unidentified adult, Mary Ham, Emma Ratz Kaufman, Martha Rieder, and Edna Louise Augustine. The group is seen smiling at the camera, dressed for warm, sunny weather.

Photograph of Edna Louise Kaufman in a Lexington yard, in front of blooming hollyhocks, with her children (left to right) John Ross, Mary Caroline and Albert Jacob Augustine. John Ross is seated on a tricycle, turned away from the camera, and Albert Jacob is looking at the camera with his own in hand. Edna Louise is seen in partial profile holding an infant Mary Caroline.