Ballot Burning [Unpublished]

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Title: Ballot Burning [Unpublished]
Abstract: Image of Gordon Scharlach unlocking a ballot box while kneeling in the middle of a room full of stacked and numbered ballot boxes.
Item description: Photo caption that accompanied 53-4392_002 and photo missing from envelope: "BURN BALLOTS - Kitchener's City Hall was heated by ballots from the Dec. 3 election yesterday. The 93 polling boxes were opened and their contents "cremated" in the furnace. Gordon Scharlach, assistant city clerk, found the 93 keys required to open the boxes a heavy load (left photo) [see 53-4392_001 for closes version]. Edward Beitz (right) [53-4392_002] stuffs ballots into furnace."
General note: Title supplied by Kitchener-Waterloo Record staff. 53-4392_002 and photo missing from envelope appeared on Page 3 of the Friday, January 23, 1953 edition of the newspaper.
Collection: Kitchener-Waterloo Record Photographic Negative Collection
Location: 53-4392
Identifier: 53-4392_001
Date created: 1953-01-20
Extent: 1 photograph : b&w negative ; 10 x 8 cm
Genre: negatives
Corporate creator name: Kitchener-Waterloo Record
Continent: North America
Country: Canada
Province: Ontario
Region: Waterloo (Ont. : Regional municipality)
City: Kitchener (Ont.)
Usage rights: Public Domain
Preferred citation: University of Waterloo Library. Special Collections & Archives. Kitchener-Waterloo Record Photographic Negative Collection. Ballot Burning [Unpublished]. 53-4392_001.