Photo Record
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Metadata
Collection |
Waterloo Region Museum |
Object ID |
2012.031.001.131 |
Object Name |
Print, Photographic |
Title |
[Archie Kinsie weighing bats of insulation] |
Description |
Black and white print with a white border. A male employee is standing in the centre of the photograph, looking to the right. He is wearing a plaid work shirt with the sleeves rolled up and dark work pants. There are bats of what appears to be insulation on the floor behind him. There is one bat on a platform scale that is being weighed on the right. The scale has "Toledo/No Springs" printed on the face and "Toledo" embossed on the base. There is a set of stairs in the background on the left. Handwritten in pencil on the reverse of the photograph is "Dom. Mag./Dec. 1954 p.13/--------/Operator - Archie/Kinsie". There are also crop marks and numbers in pencil. Stamped in purple ink is "Roy Purkis/Ref. No./169 Cedar South Kitchener/Phone 2-5554". There is a stylized image of a photographer on the left side of the stamp. Remnants of an orange piece of paper is also adhered to the reverse. |
Date |
1954 |
Photographer |
Purkis, Roy |
Copyright |
University of Waterloo Library, Special Collections and Archives, Roy Purkis fonds |
History |
The Merchant's Rubber Company was formed in 1903 by Talmon Henry Rieder and Jacob Kaufman. Both men had been shareholders in the Berlin Rubber Manufacturing Company and formed their own company after a disagreement with the other shareholders. In 1907, both the Merchant's Rubber Company and the Berlin Rubber Manufacturing Company were acquired by Canadian Consolidated Rubber of Montreal. T.H. Rieder became a Director of Consolidated Rubber and General Manger of all its Canadian footwear factories. This company was later referred to as Dominion Rubber Systems but the factory at 51 Breithaupt Street was still known as the Merchants Rubber Factory. In 1966, Dominion Rubber changed its name to Uniroyal. Uniroyal and BF Goodrich merged in 1986, and the Merchant's factory was then owned by a succession of companies that manufactured automotive parts and accessories. As of 2013, the building is part of a redevelopment known as the Breithaupt Block. |
Search Terms |
Dominion Rubber Company Limited |
People |
Kinsie, Archie Purkis, Roy |