Photo Record
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Metadata
Collection |
Waterloo Region Museum |
Object ID |
2013.044.001.006 |
Object Name |
Print, Photographic |
Title |
[Marie Lehman and women's bowling team] |
Description |
Black and white photograph with a white border. The border has a scalloped edge. In the centre of the photograph is a woman holding a bowling ball, wearing a plaid skirt, white shirt, and bowling shoes. She has been identified as Marie Lehman. There is a group of unidentified women seated behind her on a wooden bench. There are all wearing skirts, blouses, and bowling shoes. Two of the women on the right are wearing pearl necklaces. There are several pairs of high heeled shoes lined up under the bench. There is a scoreboard platform with two white towels hanging from it in front of the women. In the background, there is a young man with a rack of bowling shoes. There is a bowling ball holder on the right side. "Coca-Cola" signs are reflected in the windows in the background. Stamped on the reverse is the number "828" and a repeating pattern of "Kodak/Velox/Paper". No photographer's mark. |
Date |
1955 |
Date |
1957 |
Copyright |
Waterloo Region Museum |
History |
Thomas Kempel (1937-2013) worked at Dominion Rubber/Merchants for 47 years. He started work in 1953 when he was 16 years old, and retired around 2002. He continued to work for the company when its name was changed to Uniroyal, and then as the companies in the building at 51 Breithaupt Street changed from Uniroyal to Beckers Lay-Tech to Perstorp Components to Collins & Aikman. 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 Manager of all its Canadian footwear factories. This company was later referred to as Dominion Rubber Systems, however the building at 51 Breithaupt Street continued to be 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 Merchants Rubber Factory |
People |
Lehman, Marie |