Great Lakes Paint & Varnish
https://heritagecollections.elgin.ca/link/archives166816
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Harley Lashbrook Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- GMD
- graphic material
- Date Range
- 1952
- Accession Number
- 2016-09
- Storage Location
- W11 B4 154
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Harley Lashbrook Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Accession Number
- 2016-09
- Storage Room
- Archives Storage Rm. 110
- Storage Location
- W11 B4 154
- GMD
- graphic material
- Date Range
- 1952
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w negative; 8.5 x 6 cm
- 1 photograph : b&w negative; 6 x 6 cm
- 1 photograph : b&w negative; 6 x 6 cm
- Scope and Content
- Black and white negative photographs, featuring the Great Lakes Paint and Varnish Supply Store, from 1950 to 1952.
- Captioned: "Pidgeon and Sons power shovel is seen here digging the trench for the foundation of the Great Lakes Paint and Varnish Company, which has located in Rodney. The digging was started one week ago Thursday. The plant is situated at the southern limits of Rodney on Highway 77 and Back Street." Published by the Rodney Mercury on June 29th, 1950. (W11 B4 154b)
- Captioned: "Hilton Elsdon, right, production manager, watches thermometer, while Allan Brown, left, stirs the varnish." (W11 B4 154e)
- Captioned: "Executives of Great Lakes Paint and Varnish Company display the first paint made in the new factory. The first run of paint was made March 10th, Michigan Outside White. Standing left to right are: William Curtis, president and secretary-treasurer, points at the first fallon and five gallon pails prduced; George Lettener, centre, has since withdrawn from the business; Charles Srofe, left, vice-president and general manager. In the background is the porox ball mill in which the first paint was made." Published by the Rodney Mercury on May 24, 1951. (W11 B4 154f)
- Captioned: Charles Srofe in Great Lakes Laboratory. The camera caught vice-president and gerneral superintendent, C. E. "Charlie" Srofe in a familiar pose in his lab at Great Lakes. No picture of him would be complete without his famous hats - straws in summer and his black Stetson in other seasons." Published by the Rodney Mercury on May 24, 1951. (W11 B4 154g)
- Captioned: "The main plant of Great Lakes Paint Company, and the varnish department immediately behind. Published on May 24, 1951. (W11 B4 154h)
- Name Access
- Great Lakes
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