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Globe Furniture Company Limited, Employees, Waterloo, Ontario

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Creator

Lincoln Brand, Photographer

Media Type

Image

Item Type

Photographs

Description

Group photograph of the employees of Globe Furniture Company, Limited, posing outside the company building on the west side of Shantz Street (later Canbar Avenue).
Since Ernst Peper is not in the photo, it was likely taken before 1928 when he began working as a carver.

Notes

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.

A partial list of those identified is attached.

Date of Original

[ca. 192-]

Date Of Event

[ca. 192-]

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