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Profile Photographs, General Interest - Walter Else
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- St. Thomas Times-Journal fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- GMD
- textual records
- graphic material
- Date Range
- May 1958 - November 1961
- Accession Number
- 2008-01
- Storage Location
- R8 S4 Sh3 B6 135
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- St. Thomas Times-Journal fonds
- Creator
- St. Thomas Times-Journal
- Description Level
- Item
- Accession Number
- 2008-01
- Storage Room
- Archives Storage Rm. 110
- Storage Location
- R8 S4 Sh3 B6 135
- GMD
- textual records
- graphic material
- Date Range
- May 1958 - November 1961
- Series
- St. Thomas Times-Journal fonds - Profile Photographs, General Interest file
- Physical Description
- 4 photographs: b&w
- 3 newspaper clippings
- Scope and Content
- Black and white profile photograph showing Walter Else. Published in the St. Thomas Times-Journal on May 2, 1958 (R8 S4 Sh3 B6 135a)
- Black and white profile photograph showing Walter Else, an employee at the St. Thomas plant of the Weatherhead Company. Published in the St. Thomas Times-Journal on November 9, 1959 (R8 S4 Sh3 B6 135b)
- Black and white profile photograph showing Walter Else, a Weatherhead Company employee. Published in the St. Thomas Times-Journal on November 25, 1961 (R8 S4 Sh3 B6 135c)
- Black and white profile photograph showing Walter Else, a Weatherhead Company employee, working on an assembly job. Published in the St. Thomas Times-Journal on November 25, 1961 (R8 S4 Sh3 B6 135d)
- Clipping describing how Walter Else, a blind employee at the St. Thomas plant of the Weatherhead Company, was awarded his 10-year Pioneer pin at the 13th annual dinner of the Weatherhead Pioneers. He is pictured being congratulated by Forrest Rusch, industrial relation manager of the Weatherhead Company, Cleveland, Ohio, and H. L. Adams, vice-president and general-manager of the St. Thomas plant. Published in the St. Thomas Times-Journal on November 9, 1959 (R8_S4_Sh3_B6_135a.pdf)
- Clipping describing how 45-year-old Walter Else, who has been blind for the past 18 years, uses a modified workstation at the Weatherhead warehouse and assembly centre. He was trained in his job by the Canadian National Institute for the Blind. Published in the St. Thomas Times-Journal on November 25, 1961 (R8_S4_Sh3_B6_135b.pdf)
- Clipping showing Walter Else with his seeing-eye dog, Joey, who was given to him by the Weatherhead management and the Union employees, as they make their way along the bins of couplings used in his job. Published in the St. Thomas Times-Journal on November 25, 1961 (R8_S4_Sh3_B6_135c.pdf)
- Name Access
- Weatherhead Company of Canada Limited
- St. Thomas (Ont.)
- St. Thomas Times-Journal
- Subject Access
- Business and Industry
- Employment
- Newspapers
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