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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.

      Names printed under the individual portraits.

      Dr. Robinson began practicing medicine in St. Jacob's in 1886. North American Hotel in Kitchener in 1901 Vernon Directory, not in 1907 Directory. North American Hotel in Waterloo in 1877 Directory. N. W. Gingrich, woollen mills, in St. Jacob's in 1887 Directory. Dominion Hotel in 1887 Directory.

      Possibly a train wreck on the Grand Trunk branch line between Waterloo and Elmira that occured in early September 1902 a mile south of the Heidelberg station. The engine and tender overturned and were wrecked, the passenger car was overturned and badly damaged. There was one death, the train's fireman.

      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 …

      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.

      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 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.

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

      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.