The photographs are arranged by subject matter and cover activities in and around the town of Deseronto, Ontario. The majority date from the late nineteenth century and many depict the lumber-related industries of the Rathbun Company in Deseronto. There are also photographs of school groups, churches, railways, First World War airfields and portraits of Deseronto citizens.

Notes on Deseronto’s history and a number of postcards and photographs. Includes a collection of 43 calendars from firms in Napanee, Newburgh and Selby from 1941-1970.

Photographs, some composite, of buildings and views in Deseronto, Ontario, pasted onto paper pages and bound into a volume.

Photographs of work to install a ramp leading from Main Street to the entrance of Deseronto Town Hall.

Copies of photographs:

1. United Restaurant, 349 Main Street, Deseronto, Ontario
2. United Restaurant
3. Former Deseronto High School building on Thomas Street, Deseronto

Scanned copies of Deseronto Police and Deseronto High School patches, with 13 postcards of Deseronto scenes and buildings.

Photographs taken inside the Post Office building in Deseronto, Ontario, in May 2011 by Dana Valentyne.

Digital images of the roof of the attic space in the Anglican Rectory building in Deseronto, Ontario, taken by Edgar Tumak.

Digital images taken on April 9th, 2015, of the Langley and Burke architectural plans of a proposed house on Stanley Avenue, Deseronto, Ontario, for Edward Wilkes Rathbun, made May 20th, 1892. The original plans are held at the Archives of Ontario.

Photograph by Henry Klaver of house at 66 Green Street, Deseronto, Ontario. The house was badly damaged by fire on April 27th, 2015.

Photographs of the former Colp Block on the southwest corner of St. George and Edmon Streets in Deseronto, Ontario. The building was torn down in the early 1980s.

A certified reproduction of the Plan of Village lots as laid out on the east half of Lot 38 in the Broken Front of the 1st Concessionof the Township of Tyendinaga for Archibald Culbertson. Surveyed by Publius V. Elmore, P.L.S. and signed May 7, 1857.

This copy was made in 1972 of plan 84, as registered in the Hastings Land Registry Office.

Donated by Walter I. Watson, O.L.S.

A certified reproduction of the "Plan of town of Deseronto, compiled fromRegistered Plans & Actual Surveys by M. J. Butler, O. L. S." Surveyed by Evans and Evans, Civil Engineers and O.L.S. Plan signed September 24, 1921.

This copy was made in 1972 of plan #517, as registered in the Hastings Land Registry Office.

Donated by Walter I. Watson, O.L.S.

A photocopy of a blueprint planning the Grand Trunk Railway station at Deseronto, Hastings County, Ontario. Plan features floors, elevation and blocks. Drawn by Joseph Hobson, Chief Engineer in Montreal - October 8, 1897.

David Pershick informs us that this building was later moved by rail to Marysville in 1905.

Donated by Bruce Polmanter.

Photographs of Deseronto, Ontario dating from the 1970s to 2011, depicting a variety of Town events. They include a set of aerial photographs of the town from the 1980s; the interior of the former Home Hardware store in the Baker Block on Main Street; the O’Connor House on Main Street before its demolition; the 1989 100th Anniversary celebrations, photographs of Centennial Park and Rathbun Memorial Park; the opening of the Deseronto Public Library in its 358 Main Street location in 2001; the Ontario Provincial Police handover ceremony in 2001; an Easter Parade from the early 2000s; a Santa Parade; the 2002 New Year’s Levee; and the 2010 Olympic Flame run in Deseronto.

Most of the photographs appear to have been taken by Town staff. One envelope was donated to the Town by Irene Usher and contains photographs taken by her late husband, Tom.

A map of lots and their owners in the town of Deseronto in Hastings County, Ontario. Black lines show claims to holdings in 1890 and red lines show lots as staked. Scale 1:12,000. Dated 1890.