Archive Record
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Metadata
Collection |
Waterloo Region Museum |
Object ID |
2013.045.002.003 |
Object Name |
Drawing, Technical |
Title |
[Drawing - Apples and Grapes] |
Description |
Two pencil drawings on a single sheet of paper. One drawing is of apples on a branch, and the other of apples and grapes. "100 AK" is written in red pencil in the lower right corner. Also in the lower right corner, written in pencil is "Gordon F. Becker, 340 Wellington St., Kitchener Ont Can, Advanced Ornament, Plate No. 5, Jan 3 1930". 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 |