A mix of catalogues showcasing locks and associated building hardware for all the companies involved, but focusing on Corbin. Box of files includes inter company correspondence, newspaper clippings, log books, photographs and shares. A number of other books include a job book for cylinder keys, manufacturing order books and department specific log books. Two awards are also included, 1 for the efforts of a flood control team in 1981 and 1 safety award received in 1960. The fonds also includes a plastic Corbin sign and a key made at the plant.

File contains a typescript transcript from Smith's Canada, Volume 2, 1851 concerning natural resources and industries at Trent Port, Murray Township, Presqu'isle and various islands in the Bay of Quinte near Belleville.

Copy of trade statistics for shipments leaving and entering Belleville, Ontario.

File contains Certificates of Reeve from 1855-1871 for Huntingdon township. There is also a list of Reeves. File also contains the history of Huntingdon regarding education, religion and churches, manufacturing, etc.

File contains an Ontario Intelligencer article, 20 July 1963 concerning improvements in plant facilities by the Shamrock Cheese Factory, Stirling, and several newspaper clippings concerning the history of Stirling in the period 1859-1871. Also present is a photocopied typescript extract from Historic Hastings regarding an excursion by residents to Belleville to Stirling to attend a festival by the Stirling Masonic Lodge, 15 June 1877.

File contains a petition from 1864 for the construction of a road and a letter from 1868 regarding a Sawmill in Elzevir.

File contains original hand written booklet of methods and recipes pertaining to the Morocco Leather business in Picton. Donated by Mrs. E. Bell in 1958, the book belonged to her father who operated the business.

File contains 1865 communications regarding the establishment of an industrial farm for the poor in Belleville. There is also a 1907 booklet “Rules and Regulations to Govern House of Refuge and Industrial Farm of the County of Hastings”.

File contains motions from Hastings County Council meetings from 1869-1870 regarding the establishment of an Industrial Farm and Poor House in Belleville. There is also a copy of the “Second Annual Report of the Inspector of the House of Industry & Refuge for the County of Waterloo, 1869” that may have been used in the discussions.

File contains original documents relating to the early history of Belleville Mills, including a letter from Peter Ford to Walker's Foundry with sketches of a shaft and a paper machine, and newspaper clippings.

The fonds contains a Daily Cash Transactions sheet with a hand-drawn layout of the coal yards, an envelope with the company name "The Schuster Co. Limited", miscellaneous materials copied from original documents including newspaper clippings from 1954; pages 62-66 of the Canadian Fuel Marketer ca. 1878-1978 issues; Weaver Liquifuels pages 55-60, 2 envelopes of negatives, and 110 photographs of various everyday operations at the Bill Schuster Coal and Lumber Company, as well as photographs of Bill Schuster and possibly his family. One is an aerial photograph of the site of the company.

File contains the July 2, 1880 issue of the Daily Intelligencer which recounts the celebration of Trenton's inauguration as a town on Dominion Day, 1880. Includes a brief account of the growth and development of the community.

File contains original Letters Patent incorporating "The Ontario Powder Company (Limited)" : Francis Nugent, William Wright, George Easterbrook, William Thomas Easterbrook.

Records of the Harold Cheese Manufacturing Company, including minutes of shareholders' meetings, financial records and correspondence.