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    Black and white photograph of the Dominion Tire plant, located on Strange Street in Kitchener, Ontario. The plant consists of one very large five storey building in front of which is a smaller three storey building. The photo shows the front of the plant with the Canadian National Railway (CNR) ...

    [Front]: Sunday afternoon at Martin's Meeting Place, St. Jacobs Highway. Prize winning photo by Sid McLennan, 44 Caroline St., Kitchener. [Reverse]: 1940

    A handwritten note on the back of the photograph: "Doon looking west from old school onto Schneider house farm."

    Handwritten on the photo itself: Boys of "Bonnie Doon" Handwritten on the back of the photo: Boys of Bonnie Doon (Willow Lake) Negative from G. Ayres.

    Handwritten on the back of the photo: Negative from G. Ayres, Doon School 1907

    Sepia image shows a large wood-frame building said to be a mill in the village of Bridgeport, Ontario, which since 1973 has been part of the City of Kitchener. The mill appears to be five storeys in height at one end and four at the other. There is a one-storey ...

    Undated sepia image shows the village of Bridgeport. Included in the view is a large grist mill and several neighbouring homes and smaller industrial buildings. Some streams and ponds are evident in the image. There may be a man standing beside a fence above a pond in the bottom left ...

    The back of the image includes two hand written notes: Kitchener, King Street, 1954 and Cober, Centennial booklet

    Black and white image shows four men standing in front of a storefront. Above the door and windows, possibly on an awning, are the words: Wm, Knell, & Co. That name also appears on the glass surface of windows on either side of the entrance. On one side is the ...

    The word Doon has been inserted near the bottom of the image as part of the printed calendar. The back of the image has hand-written words: Waterloo Trust Scenic Calendar 1952.

    Black and white grainy photograph shows the Church of the New Jerusalem building at the northeast corner of King Street West and Water Street North in Berlin (later known as Kitchener), Ontario. A woman in a long dark dress appears in front of one of the two large doors facing ...

    A. Tyson's Grocery (store sign) W. Niehaus (store sign)

    Front: City Hall and Cenotaph, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada - 19 Reverse:[middle, vertical] Photogelatine Engraving Co. Ltd., Ottawa, PECO Ottawa

    Front: No. 116 - Post Office, Berlin Ont., Canada Reverse:[left, vertical] Published by Stedman Bros., Brantford, Canada. Made in Germany Reverse [top] Private Post Card Addressee: Mr. Henry Mahnke, Fordwich, Ont. Correspondence: "Kurtzville, Sep. the 7th 1908. Dear Friend Henry, Ha Ha I [indecipherable] it will be to [sic] late ...

    Reverse: Please credit Kitchener Waterloo Record Photo Collection, The Library, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

    Front[bottom]: Pinnis Strobus or White Pine. Diameter 4ft 8in. 164 ft by measurement. Reverse [top]: Negative taken in May 1893 by W.Sher[indecipherable] on farm of Enoch Erb, 2 1/2 miles west of Waterloo. 5ft at base. Estimated height of tree 150 ft.

    [Reverse]: Mrs. Wm Fischer with Gertie & Ruby in Horse & Buggy, 1897. Mr. Aitcheson - Teacher at Nine Pines; Angus Wolf; Wm. Fischer; Simon Reid - Teacher; Mr. Gingrich in buggy.

    Reverse [bottom]: Woodside, home of King family. Centennial book 1954

    The phrase "Season's Greetings" in a Christmas light decoration, is barely visible across the front of the building.

    Black and white photograph of Kitchener's former city hall, decorated for Christmas with lights and ornaments. The photograph shows a night view of the building.