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F.W. Woolworth store.
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July 1917 (Photography)
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1 photograph : b&w ; 16 x 21 cm
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Ivan Wilbur Keffer was born March 21, 1890 in Berlin (now Kitchener), Ontario. He married Mary Louise Elligsen of Sebringville in 1917. Keffer began working for the F.W. Woolworth Co. in Hamilton, Ontario in 1912, after graduating from high school. He was named manager of a store in Stratford, Ontario in 1915, later working as a district superintendent and then buyer based in Toronto, Ontario. In 1927, the company opened the subsidiary F.W. Woolworth GmbH in Germany. The same year Keffer accepted a position to organize and develop the, moving with his wife and daughter Mary Jane to Berlin, Germany. He became managing director of the German company in 1933. The Keffers lived in Berlin until 1939 when they returned to Canada and settled in Toronto because of the political and economic tensions in Germany. Keffer continued to serve Woolworth’s as Canadian General Manager. In 1945, he was appointed executive vice president and treasurer of the company and the family moved to New York. Upon his retirement in 1953, the Keffers moved back to Toronto and lived in an apartment there as well as the house they built in Port Elgin. Keffer died January 7, 1965 and was buried in the family plot at Zion Evangelical Lutheran Cemetery in Vaughn, Ontario.
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File consists of a photograph of the exterior of the F.W. Woolworth Co. Ltd. store at 69-71 Downie Street in Stratford, Ontario where Keffer worked as store manager.
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Visible crease from folding down middle of photograph. Torn at bottom of crease.
Stamp on verso: 373 - Stratford.
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Scanned as TIF file October 2021.
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Found in souvenir booklet, "1879-1929: Fifty Years of Woolworth."
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Location confirmed based on entry in 1917 Vernon's City of Stratford directory and a review of Google street view for Downie Street address.
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Black ink inscription on verso: "July 1917/1"
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- North America » Canada » Ontario » Stratford
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- F.W. Woolworth Company (Subject)
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Revised October 2021 by DR.