Archive Record
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Metadata
Collection |
Waterloo Region Museum |
Object ID |
2013.045.002.009 |
Object Name |
Drawing, Technical |
Title |
[Drawing - lion's foot] |
Description |
Pencil drawing on a heavy beige paper. Drawing is of a lion's foot with a square top. It is labelled "No. 8" in red pencil on the right side. In the bottom right hand corner of the paper is written "Gordon F. Becker, 340 Wellington St., Kitchener, ONT, CAN, "Varieties of Claw Feet, March 12, 1930". "100/AK" is written in pink pencil along the lower edge. The reverse is blank. |
Date |
1930 |
History |
Gordon Frederick Becker (1898-1975) was the son of Frederick Becker (1861-1931) and Wilhelmine Luedke (1860-1930) of Bentinck Township, Grey County. He married Flossie Elizabeth Schmitt (1899-1950) in 1921. Flossie was the daughter of Valentine Schmitt (1871-1937) and Margaret Pflug (1874-1953) of Waterloo County. Many of the family members are buried in Kitchener's Mount Hope Cemetery. Gordon was a wood carver who worked at several local furniture factories beginning in the 1920s. Presumably he moved to Kitchener to find employment. In the mid-1930s, he began working at Dominion Electrohome, and he worked there until he retired. Drawings appear to be from a correspondence course at the Grand Rapids School of Designing that Gordon took in the early 1930s. |
People |
Becker, Gordon |