Kaufman, Jacob : biographical : clippings.
- SCA173-GA173-6-39
- File
- 1929, 1950-1962
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains clippings relating to Jacob Kaufman and the history of the rubber industry in Kitchener.
Kaufman, A. R. (Alvin Ratz)
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Kaufman, Jacob : biographical : clippings.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains clippings relating to Jacob Kaufman and the history of the rubber industry in Kitchener.
Kaufman, A. R. (Alvin Ratz)
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Kaufman Footwear
Qualité superieure : chaussures imperméables, 1962-1963.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Kaufman Footwear
Step up to Kingtreads crafted by Kaufman of Kitchener.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Advertising portfolio directed at retailers.
Kaufman Footwear
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains compound sheets with a list of the materials used for the compound and the total weight of the compound. All sheets initialled by W.H.B. (William H. Bechtel).
Kaufman Footwear
Kaufman Kingtreads : in-stock lines.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Advertising directed at retailers.
Kaufman Footwear
Strike, 1960 : A.R. Kaufman's file.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains material relating to the 1960 strike. Includes correspondence to A.R. Kaufman and from the union to employees. Includes discussion of the strike by a management training class, memoranda, observations and statements written by A.R. Kaufman, a CKCO TV transcript regarding the strike, and a union negotiation timeline.
Kaufman Footwear
Strike, 1960 : A.R. Kaufman's file.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains material relating to the 1960 strike. Includes correspondence to and from A.R. Kaufman, newspaper clippings, memoranda, and a telegraph.
Kaufman Footwear
Strike, 1960 : transcript, Mary Hertel vs Kaufman Rubber.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains material relating to the 1960 strike. Includes court transcript of Mary Hertel vs Kaufman Rubber (Ontario) Limited. Includes correspondence from A.R. Kaufman to P.D. Isbister.
Kaufman Footwear
Kaufman Footwear : Packard division : Fall-Winter, 1961.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
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
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Materials related to the 50th wedding anniversary of A. R. and Jean Kaufman celebrated on August 12, 1961. Includes photographs of the couple printed on paper and a photograph of the couple with their three children, a printing plate for the invitations with a printed envelope, and a wedding anniversary guest book used to record guests and printed by Hutchings & Patrick Limited (Ottawa, Canada). On the second page of the guest book, there is a metal medal pasted that reads “50th / Kaufman’s ‘61’.”
Kaufman, A. R. (Alvin Ratz)
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Kaufman Footwear
Super quality waterproof footwear and Foamtread house shoes, 1961-1962.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Kaufman Footwear
Kaufman : industrial vulcanized waterproof clothing and footwear.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Kaufman Footwear
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
File consists of one price list for Kaufman Footwear.
Kaufman Family
Cost accounting manager : G.R. Good : correspondence.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains correspondence to and from G.R. Good.
Kaufman Footwear
Vehicles : car maintenance schedule.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains a car maintenance schedule for a 1950 Desoto blue sedan that was sold by Kaufman Rubber Co. to Stan Graber and was guaranteed for two years.
Kaufman Footwear
K.R. Ro-Search : written standard practice no. P-5.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Written standard practice for snowbells shell production and preparation. Includes written standard practice for insertion of sock on "women's iceland", "women's alaska", and "women's suburban". Includes 13 photographs.
Kaufman Footwear
Written Standard Practice drawings : P-2-25-a to P-2-25-P11 : automatic mould aligner.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains parts lists and blueprints of drawings of machinery and parts lists for the automatic mould aligner.
Kaufman Footwear
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Binder belonging to I.E. Weber, Vice-President, Manufacturing. Contains compound sheets with a list of the materials used for the compound and the total cost of the compound. These are all initialled "W.H.B." (W.H. Bechtel, Laboratory).
Kaufman Footwear
Super quality waterproof footwear, Foamtread house shoes, 1960-1961.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Kaufman Footwear
Qualite superieure : chaussures impermeables, Foamtread souliers de maison, 1960-1961.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Kaufman Footwear
Meisel, Pearl : retirement from Accounts Receivable, 1960.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Photograph of Pearl Meisel at a desk, next to a flower arrangement, on her retirement from Accounts Receivable.
Kaufman Footwear
K-R Ro-Search : written standard practice no. P-5 : Snowbelle shell production and preparation.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains written standard practice for "Snowbelle shell production and preparation," by R.V. Klassen. Includes 13 photographs and some blueprint drawings of machinery.
Kaufman Footwear
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.
Kaufman Footwear
Kaufman Furniture Ltd. : union.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
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.
Kaufman, William Hutton
Strike, 1960 : correspondence with Union and to employees.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains material relating to the 1960 strike : A.R. Kaufman's file. Includes correspondece with the Union, the Department of Labour, and to employees. Includes copies of the Labour Relations Act prosecution against Kaufman Rubber Co. Limited, and Supreme Court records.
Kaufman Footwear
Strike, 1960 : local 88 injunction evidence.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains material relating to the 1960 strike injunction evidence. Includes supreme court records, copies of the injunction, and affidavits. A.R. Kaufman's file.
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
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
Professional life photographs.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Photographs of A. R. and Jean Kaufman's professional life, including Kaufman Rubber Company and other professional affiliations. Photographs are identified or identifiable as:
Kaufman, A. R. (Alvin Ratz)
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.
Kaufman Footwear
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.
Kaufman Footwear
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.
Kaufman Footwear
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.
Kaufman Footwear
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
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)
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Kaufman Footwear
K-R Ro-Search : written standard practice no. M-6 : electric circulating air oven.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains written standard practice for the electric circulating air oven. Includes blueprint drawings of the oven and its dimensions.
Kaufman Footwear
K.R. Ro-Search : written standard practice no. V-1.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Written standard practice for vinyl compounding materials.
Kaufman Footwear
Photographs taken for written standard practice reports.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains two photographs of unidentified equipment, perhaps holding tanks.
Kaufman Footwear
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.
Kaufman Footwear
Kaufman, A.R. : trip around the world, 1958-1959.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Material relating to a trip by A.R. Kaufman around the world in 1958 and 1959. Consists of trip accounts, some written in the form of letters to family and friends (photocopies and carbons), manuscript and typescript notes (original and carbon) as well as a list of names and addresses.
Kaufman, A. R. (Alvin Ratz)
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains 1 paste-up advertisement for the High Overall boot.
Kaufman Footwear
Super quality vulcanized rubber clothing, industrial waterproof footwear.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Kaufman Footwear
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Kaufman Footwear
Qualité supérieure : chaussures imperméables et "Foamtread" souliers de maison, 1959-1960.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Kaufman Footwear
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Kaufman Footwear
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
3 envelopes with advertisements on them.
Kaufman Footwear
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.
Kaufman Footwear
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Six postcards of the Delfos and Athens in Greece with annotations about the trip and an envelope.
Kaufman, A. R. (Alvin Ratz)
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains correspondence to J.S.C. Moffitt from Kaufman Rubber Co. regarding sales. Also includes correspondence to Kaufman Rubber Co. regarding machinery. Includes 6 photographs of Guix machinery.
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
Aqualite : Announcing Aqualite waterproof clothing by Kaufman.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Kaufman Footwear
Super quality waterproof footwear and Foamtread house shoes, 1959-1960.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Kaufman Footwear
Kaufman Foamtreads : in-stock lines.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Kaufman Footwear
Super quality waterproof footwear and Foamtread house shoes, 1958-1959.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Kaufman Footwear
K.R. Ro-Search report #47 (revised) : neoprene footwear.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains revised report on neoprene footwear. Includes instructions for building men's black neoprene fraser short, and compound sheets.
Kaufman Footwear
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Kaufman Footwear
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Kaufman Footwear
Kaufman, A.R. : correspondence.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Correspondence to and from A.R. Kaufman: one letter to him from F.W. Nicks, Bank of Nova Scotia (typescript original), and one carbon typescript from him to B.D. Sandwell regarding school swings.
Kaufman, A. R. (Alvin Ratz)
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
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.
File consists of one price list for Kaufman Footwear.
Kaufman Family
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains a newspaper clipping of an article about the 50th anniversary of the Kaufman Rubber Co., Limited and an anniversary crest.
Kaufman Footwear
Smith Transport Ltd. : system map.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Kaufman Footwear
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Kaufman Footwear
Super quality waterproof footwear and "Foamtread" house shoes, 1957-1958.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Kaufman Footwear
Qualité supérieure : chaussures imperméables et "Foamtread" souliers de maison, 1957-1958.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Kaufman Footwear
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Note on folder "Procedure for obtaining installation costs for production of plastic shoes and minimum and maximum costs for plastic shoemaking installation."
Kaufman Footwear
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains instructions for handling, spreading and calendar coating of nets or knitted fabrics, by W.H. Bechtel.
Kaufman Footwear
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.
Kaufman Footwear
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Kaufman Footwear
Kaufman Foamtreads : Canada's finest house shoes.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Kaufman Footwear
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.
Kaufman Footwear
Kaufman Rubber Co. Ltd, Kitchener, Ont. : plot plan / Barnett & Rieder, Architects.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contents:
Sheet 1: Plot plan, Nov. 1956, scale 1" to 40' (7 copies).
Kaufman Footwear
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
File consists of one price list for Kaufman Footwear.
Kaufman Family
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
Super quality industrial rubber clothing, footwear and gloves : price list : June 1, 1956.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Kaufman Footwear
Super quality waterproof footwear and Foamtread house shoes, 1956-1957.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Kaufman Footwear
Chaussures imperméables et Foamtread souliers de maison, 1956-1957.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
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
K.R. Ro-Search report #37 : transparent upper for boots.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains general compounding conclusions and remarks from development work on transparent gum upper for Bergougnan.
Kaufman Footwear
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains 12 drawings of the Adamson mixing mill describing construction.
Kaufman Footwear
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Kaufman Footwear
K.R. Ro-Search : written standard practice no. P-2.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Written standard practice for vinyl footwear production (showertog) by a slush moulding process using vinyl plastisols. Includes equipment and material requirements, costs, methods, lay-out, and production results for showertog type footwear. Includes 54 photographs.
Kaufman Footwear
K-R Ro-Search : written standard practice no. P-3 : electroforming of copper moulds.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains written standard practice for "Electroforming of copper moulds for use in vinyl footwear production," by R.V. Klassen and W.H. Bechtel.
Kaufman Footwear
K-R Ro-Search : written standard practice no. VA-1 : footwear varnish.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains written standard practice: "The manufacture of black rubber footwear varnish," by W.H. Bechtel. Includes 66 photographs.
Kaufman Footwear
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.
Kaufman Footwear
Super quality industrial rubber clothing, footwear and gloves : price list : April 1, 1955.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Kaufman Footwear
Super quality industrial rubber clothing, footwear and gloves : price list : November 1, 1955.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
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 : 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 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