Ideal Upholstering Workers

This photograph, taken in the 1920s in Pointe-aux-Trembles in Montreal, depicts one woman and eleven men in the Ideal Upholstering factory. Adolph Singer is standing on the far left.

An Upholstering Factory in Pointe-aux-Trembles

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Adolph Singer is pictured on the left of this photograph of workers of the Ideal Upholstering factory, circa 1920.

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Photograph of Ideal Upholstering employees. Adolph Singer is the first of the front row from the right.

A Family Business

The Singer family left Lithuania in 1906 to escape the harsh living conditions of Eastern Europe. The four brothers, Adolph, David, Hyman and Isaac founded an upholstering company in Pointe-aux-Trembles, Montreal. First named Ideal Upholstering, it was renamed Singer Upholstering a couple of years later.

Shirley Shenkman, Adolph’s daughter, donated this photograph to the Montreal Holocaust Museum in 1996.

This project is part of the implementation of the Plan culturel numérique du Québec.