- SCA173-GA300-15
- File
- 1961-1987
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
File consists of diagrams for various machinery at Kaufman Footwear.
Kaufman Footwear
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Part of Kaufman Family collection.
File consists of diagrams for various machinery at Kaufman Footwear.
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. 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-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.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Written standard practice no. P-3, "Electroforming of copper moulds for use in vinyl footwear production"; Written standard practice no. P-7, "Methods of model making for moulds for use in slush moulding of vinyl footwear"; Written standard practice no. P-6, "Showertog production and sequence of operations on K.R. Unit #3 pertaining to shoes of the basic type known as Sprite flat and Snowbelle." Includes 10 vinyl samples, and 61 photographs.
Kaufman Footwear
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.
Note on folder "Procedure for obtaining installation costs for production of plastic shoes and minimum and maximum costs for plastic shoemaking installation."
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 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 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 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.
File consists of one account by Gary Peysar of a layoffs incident in the shop.
Kaufman Footwear
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Series consists of catalogues and price lists for Kaufman clothing and footwear products printed between 1909 and 2000.
Kaufman Footwear
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
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
Duplicate compounds : open heat, steam (file 2 of 2).
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, all signed J.C. Howard.
Kaufman Footwear
Duplicate compounds : open heat, steam (file 1 of 2).
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, all signed J.C. Howard.
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
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
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
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. Also includes mixing instructions.Sheets initialled by W.H.B. (William H. Bechtel).
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
Air pres[sure cures], 116-[180] (file 1 of 2).
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.
Kaufman Footwear
Air pres[sure cures], 116-[180] (file 1 of 2).
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.
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
Kaufman stories by Gary Peysar.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
File consists of brief stories (typed, 17 pp.) as written by Gary Peysar detailing his time working at Kaufman Footwear
Kaufman Footwear
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Series consists of discrete advertisements for Kaufman products, usually only a single page for insertion in catalogues, magazines, or counter displays. Includes artwork, proofs, mounted point-of-purchase advertisements.
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 material relating to the framing of sales posters. Includes receipts, invoices, and memoranda.
Kaufman Footwear
Kaufman Footwear Mural : Kitchener Downtown Mural Programme.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains material relating to Kaufman Footwear's involvement in the Kitchener Downtown Mural Programme. Includes the artist Monte Wright's description of the Kaufman Footwear mural, memoranda, correspondence, newspaper clippings, newsletters, and potential mural artist Nicholas Rees' curriculum vitae. Includes three photographs in colour of the mural, taken by K-W Record.
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 a short history of the rubber footwear industry by Kaufman Footwear.
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 photocopies of advertisements for Life Buoy shoes in the Montreal Gazette and the Montreal Star from 1924.
Kaufman Footwear
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains a news release regarding Plaisted's claim that his 1968 expedition was the first to reach the North Pole, and calling Peary's 1909 Polar conquest a myth.
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
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
Kaufman Footwear building : evaluation.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains an evaluation of the Kaufman properties at 410 King Street in Kitchener by Jeffery Stinson.
Kaufman Footwear
Kaufman Footwear mill rescue and testing of safeties.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
File consists of one camcorder videocassette.
Kaufman Footwear
Operations : Vice-President Manufacturing : Irvin E. Weber
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Material relating to the factory and its manufacturing operations, belonging to Irvin E. Weber. According to secondary sources, Irvin E. Weber joined Kaufman in 1945. His father, Irvin K. Weber, had worked at Kaufman for 52 years, starting in 1909. Some of the material in this series belonged to Irvin K. Weber and subsequently to his son Irvin E. Weber. Includes much material, such as the compound sheets, that would have originated in the Laboratory, but concerned with ingredients and costs rather than formulae and mixing. Includes correspondence, ephemera, invoices, notes, memoranda, and clippings.
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
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
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains material relating to a speech by W.K. Toole, "A.R. Kaufman - The Man Behind the Name". Includes notes and a Kaufman Footwear 70th Anniversary booklet.
Kaufman Footwear
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains biographical information about A.R. Kaufman. Includes newspaper clippings about A.R. Kaufman, obituaries, and a programme for an honourary luncheon.
Kaufman Footwear
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains material relating to interviews done by Frances Hoffman with Stu Snider. Includes questions, transcript.
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
Interviews : Lingwood, C. Harry .
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains a two page set of interview questions with answers written in by C. Harry Lingwood. Includes correspondence to Harry Lingwood from Eileen Buchner at Kaufman Footwear and from Harry Lingwood to Eileen Buchner.
Kaufman Footwear
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains a transcript of an interview with Eileen Buchner conducted by Frances Hoffman in 1997. Includes signed release form.
Kaufman Footwear
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
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.)
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
Historical information : flow sheet.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains a flow chart for rubber goods manufacturing preparation.
Kaufman Footwear
Job fact sheet : plant maintenance supervisor.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
File consists of two job fact sheets filled out by Gary Peysar relating to his job as plant maintenance supervisor at Kaufman Footwear
Kaufman Footwear
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
1 vendor's permit, framed, for Kaufman Footwear Industries.
Kaufman Footwear
Operations : Vice-President, Manufacturing : Brent I. Weber
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Series consists of material from the office of Brent I. Weber, Vice-President Manufacturing. Consists primarily of topical materials on business, and one file of production forecasts for 1993.
Kaufman Footwear
Historical information : events.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains one ms. list of events in the history of Kaufman Footwear, including the 1953 flood, the 1960 strike, and the 1967 Indianapolis race.
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
Employee photographs : Geraldine Knarr.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains photographs of Geraldine Knarr and several unidentified women in what is identified as the sewing room on Siebert St. in 1982.
Kaufman Footwear
Employee photographs : Clarissa Jarmolchuc [Jarmolchuk].
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains an envelope with Clarissa Jarmolchuc's [i.e., Jarmolchuk] name on it containing with three snapshots of unidentified Kaufman Footwear employees.
Kaufman Footwear
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains biographical and historical newspaper clippings (some photocopies). Includes articles regarding Kaufman employee appointments and business news. Includes an article featuring the Ontario Finance Minister trying on Kaufman shoes.
Kaufman Footwear
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains biographical and historical newspaper clippings (some photocopies).
Kaufman Footwear
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains biographical and historical newspaper clippings (some photocopies).
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
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains a memo. Notice about the 1984 Kaufman Christmas party.
Kaufman Footwear
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains a one page description of an annual picnic with photographs.
Kaufman Footwear
Operations : Factory, Laboratory
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Series consists of material relating to rubber compounding and manufacturing processes and procedures at Kaufman Rubber Co. Includes binders of formulae and instructions owned and/or written by W.H. Bechtel, J. C. Howard Irvin K. Weber, as well as research reports on production requirements, "Written standard practice" reports illustrating production and processes. These include photographs.
Kaufman Footwear
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
File consists of job evaluation schedules for various positions at Kaufman Footwear
Kaufman Footwear
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
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
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
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
Cost accounting manager : G.R. Good.
Part of Kaufman Family collection.
Contains material relating to the cost accounting manager, G.R. Good. Includes memoranda, design sheets, mill room day staff allowance, line balance procedure, production calculations, and shoe room rates.
Kaufman Footwear