Globe Furniture Company 1965 Letter to Employees
Description
- Creators
- R.M. Fry, Correspondent
- Herz, Reinhold, Recipient
- Media Type
- Text
- Item Type
- Correspondence
- Description
- This is a two-page letter from 1965 that informs workers about a catalog publication and encourages workers to come up with efficiency improvements in order to compete with other furniture makers.
At the end of the letter it reads:
"Copy to:- Local 2-490 International Woodworkers of America" which would have been the union that the Globe Furniture Company employees were part of.
The Globe Furniture Company was moved to Waterloo in 1910 after 21 years of successful business in Walkerville, Ontario. Edward F. Seagram, Aloyes Bauer and John Letter found a location on the west side of Shantz Street (later Canbar Avenue, no longer exists) suitable for the expanding business. The company manufactured church and school furniture, including school desks and complete science equipment. It was particularly famous for its artistic wood carvings which were exported all over the world. The company declared bankruptcy in 1968 and the buildings were eventually torn down in the 1990s. - Notes
- There is a watermark on both pages that reads "Weldonmere Bond". The watermarks aren't visible on the scanned copies.
- Publisher
- Globe Furniture Company Limited
- Place of Publication
- Waterloo, Ontario
- Date of Original
- March 31, 1965
- Subject(s)
- Personal Name(s)
- Fry, R.M. ; Hubbs, Don
- Corporate Name(s)
- Globe Furniture Company Limited
- Local identifier
- GFC Box #1 Correspondence 109
- Language of Item
- English
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 43.4668 Longitude: -80.51639
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- Copyright Statement
- Copyright status unknown. Responsibility for determining the copyright status and any use rests exclusively with the user.
- Contact
- Waterloo Public LibraryEmail:askus@wpl.ca
Website:
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