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      The I.E. Bowman Tannery was founded in 1855. By 1861 it employed five people; two employees were engaged in tanning, while the other three made shoes. Photograph is mounted on matte board. This photograph appears on page 51 of "The Early History of Jakobstettel" by Virgil Martin. The I.E. Bowman …

      The church was built in 1914 and is located at 1376 King Street North, St. Jacobs, Ontario. Photograph has small pin holes on top and bottom and a small tear out at center bottom.

      Black and white photographic reproduction of a photograph of an unidentified, two-story house with a side addition, in what is believed to be St. Jacobs, Ontario. A fence is in the foreground and people are standing on both porches.

      Photograph appears on page 47 of the 1968 Waterloo Historical Society annual volume with the following caption: About 1890 York Scheifele operated a shoe repair shop at the 1968 home of S.F. Martin. Below the window hung bags of wooden pegs which were used to make and repair shoes. In …

      Photograph appears on page 68 of the book "The Early History of Jakobstettel." Elias Weber Bingeman Snider purchased the mill on 31 December 1870. Under Snider's ownership, the mill was the first in Canada to introduce the roller milling system, which replaced millstones with steel rollers.

      According to the 1964 Waterloo Historical Society annual volume, the St. Jacobs School was built in 1867 on Albert Street.

      This photograph appears on page 34 of the 1968 Waterloo Historical Society annual volume under the caption "St. Jacobs looking North. Left is the mill then owned by E.W.B. Snider. Next across the river is the tannery owned by Solomon Bowman. The white house was occupied by Paul Moser. The …

      Elias Weber Bingeman Snider purchased the mill on 31 December 1870. Under Snider's ownership, the mill was the first in Canada to introduce the roller milling system, which replaced millstones with steel rollers.

      Black and white photograph of a partial view of an 1857 map of St. Jacobs, Ontario.

      Black and white photograph of Mabel Dunham addressing an audience in front of the St. Jacobs Public Library on the occasion of its ceremonial opening on 2 June 1934. The library opened to the public on 5 June 1934.

      Black and white photograph of the local dignitaries invited to the opening of the St. Jacobs Public Library, St. Jacobs, Ontario, on 2 June 1934. Seated at the forefront of the photograph are, from left to right, J.G. Hurst, Charles Schuett, Miss Ada Snider, F.C. Jennings, Rev. Yager, Miss Marie …

      This house appeared on the 1857 plan of St. Jacobs. This photograph and information about this house appears on page 46 of the 1968 Waterloo Historical Society annual volume. F.W.R. Dickson is credited as the photographer of this image.

      Colour photograph of Ryan Taylor, a librarian at the Kitchener Public Library, and Kathryn Hansuld Lamb, a local historian and journalist. Ryan is seated on the left and Kathryn is standing.

      Charles Bignell is listed as a constable for the first time in the 1941 Vernon's City of Kitchener directory. Photograph is in poor condition.

      The Young Men's Christian Association building was opened in 1922 and demolished in March 1988. For additional images of YMCA building, see images with local identifiers: P008338 - P008340, P008342-P008343 and P008345-P008347.

      Colour photograph of Ryan Taylor, who was a librarian at the Kitchener Public Library, seated at a table in the Grace Schmidt Room of Local History.

      Black and white photograph of the Grace Schmidt Room of Local History at the Kitchener Public Library. The photograph was taken on the day of its opening on 14 October 1984.

      A copy of this photograph exists in the KPL collection, but has not been uploaded.

      Black and white photograph of Grace Schmidt speaking at the opening of the Grace Schmidt Room of Local History, Kitchener Public Library, on 14 October 1984. In the row immediately behind Grace, the following people are seated from left to right: Susan Hoffman, Lynn Matthews, Reverend Erich Schultz, and Mayor …

      Black and white photograph of Susan Hoffman and Grace Schmidt speaking with an unidentified person at the opening of the Grace Schmidt Room of Local History at the Kitchener Public Library on 14 October 1984.