Materials collected by Lewis Zandbergen, including many editions of the Stirling News Argus and Community Press newspapers, some Belleville school yearbooks, a collection of photographs and materials relating to the history of Stirling and to Stirling Public Library.
Three young people in uniform, with '1898' inked onto image. Woman standing on left is unidentified, man in centre, seated, is named Fred McKee, woman standing on right is named Emily Grace Kennedy. On back of photograph is written "Mrs Fred McK[torn], Girl of Great Courage, Stirling, Ont."
Photo-postcard of a group of 25 men in uniform, taken by A. Nash, 39 Surrey Street, Brighton, Ontario. A note on the back identifies Raymond Chambers in the back row, second from right and Bill Fitchett in the second row from the top, second from right. Raymond Hunter Chambers of Stirling was drafted into the Canadian Expeditionary Force on October 13th, 1917 and William James Fitchett of Tweed was drafted on October 16th, 1917.
Man standing inside a drug store, with display counters on the right of the photograph and a phonograph to the left. The walls are lined with shelves and advertisements. A note on the back reads "Jack Butler (John Gay Butler) in drug store, 1926". "F. B. Butler, 331 Victoria Ave. Belleville, Ont." is stamped on the back three times.
A woman, seated, surrounded by six standing men and two seated ones, all dressed in suits and ties. The men sitting either side of the woman are holding her hands.
Photographs taken from the roof of the Belleville Collegiate Institute and Vocational School in September 1997. They show the Hastings County offices on Church Street, Patterson Street and St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church in Belleville, Ontario.
Group of mostly unidentified photographs, many of them portraits of people. Those which have names are of:
William Surtee, senior (picture taken by Burgess of Guelph)
John Stewart (picture taken by S. J. Dixon, Toronto)
Will Stirling, George, Yorke, Cassie jay, Susie Leavens, Louie Sunter, Annie Sunter, Albert Thompson and Willie Trout having a picnic at "Mountain lake, St. Vincent" (photo stamped "Morton & Raith")
Other photos were taken by H. K. Smith of Front Street, Belleville, W. J. Winter of Meaford, and Forrest & Lozo's of Front Street, Belleville.
The tintype is of a small child. One photographs shows five African-Canadian children standing in a road.
Family photographs depicting people, dogs, scenery, cottage life. 38 photographs have annotations, indicating that they belonged to members of Charles Paterson's family. One of the older photographs identifies two elderly men as D. Butchart and A. Sunter. A photograph taken in the early 1940s shows Sharon Cook, aged about three. One taken in 1945 shows Bob Johnson on Stone Road, Coles Hill.
Photographs showing a crew of men from the Ontario Department of Highways, Ottawa District, cutting down tree limbs. Three photographs show trees with trunk or branches growing at right angles to the rest of the tree.
Two photographs taken to mark the 50th wedding anniversary of Abigail Ann Barager and Stephen Badgley. The building in the background of the photographs is the Methodist church in Stirling, Ontario (now St. Paul's United Church). One photograph shows the couple sitting in a car with two other people, the other is a group photograph with around 70 others.