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This file contains an article dated June 12, 1968; about the private gun and antique collection of Clifford Smith.

The file contains a newspaper article dated 4 December 1964, titled "Belleville Woman Has Poems Published" about her book of poems "And I Heard a Voice Saying".

The file contains photocopies of newspapers articles about Reverend Bowen P. Squire's work as an archaeologist in the Prince Edward County region, along with a list of his paintings in the museum.

File contains several newspaper clippings regarding local personalities in Trenton including, Major W.G Grant, operations officer of CFB Trenton: Allison Liversidge, winner of the Peterborough Kiwanis Music Festival; and former mayor Kenneth Couch and O.W. Larry, recipients of a Centennial year medal.

File contains clippings of local newspaper articles about the c.1960s, opening of Trenton Public Library, Trenton, Ontario.

File contains newspaper clippings of works from Anthony Lassing's Scrap Book. Anthony Lassing was a self-taught artist. He was born in Amsterdam in 1928, but later moved to Belleville, Ontario, and was a founding member of Gallery 121, also in Belleville, Ontario.

File contains four newspaper clippings about Trenton Drama Group, and their performances.

File contains a newspaper article from the Trentonian dated 20-June-1957 and about the Trenton Art Club.

File contains several newspaper articles concerning the 1957, 1959 and 1969 occurrences of the annual Stirling Festival of Sacred Praise, a competition of church and school choirs and individual performers.

File contains eight original uncancelled stamps in one-half to five cent denominations which commemorate the Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1897, and two half-cent Canadian stamps from 1870 bearing the image of Queen Victoria. Also present is a Globe and Mail newspaper article, 7 February 1970, discussing the value of a rare 12-penny Canadian stamp, and an Intelligencer article, ca. 1969 regarding the annual Quinte Philatelic Exhibition of the Quinte Stamp Club.

File contains a letter dated 20 June 1963 from A.D. Tushingham, Royal Ontario Museum to A.S. Stalker, Hastings County Clerk, soliciting cancelled stamps in the County's files, for the philatelic collection of the ROM. A second letter of 28 June 1963 from A. S. Stalker forwards the contents to the attention of Gerald Boyce, Hastings Historical Society.

File contains a song book entitled; Popular Song Book (c. 1906), and a newspaper clipping about a song called; Widow Malone. The article features a description about the writer, Charles Lever.

File contains a newspaper article titled "Sculpting Once a Hobby Now Retirement Project" about William Eakins local Belleville sculptor.

File contains a newspaper clipping regarding the unearthing in a garden, by a Rossmore resident of an American coin dating to 1826 and an unidentified coin dating to 1596.

File contains newspaper articles concerning usage of the Royal Ontario Museum by schools and the need for additional funding to accommodate the growth in visitors and upgrades to operations in 1968-1969.

File contains a letter dated 15-December-1964 from Harold B. Burnham, Associate Curator, Textile Department, Royal Ontario Museum, addressed to Mrs. G.A. Bennet, Secretary of the Hastings County Historical Society. Mr. Burnham is trying to trace a Patchwork Quilt made by a maternal ancestor of the Hon Billa Flint.

File contains a newspaper article from the Intelligencer dated 18-January-1967 about Jim Robertson, hobbyist wood craftsman, and his restoration of antiques.

File contains a letter of inquiry from Ronald Hambleton, Toronto to the Hastings County Museum, 22 July 1964 requesting genealogical information on the Roche[Roach] Family, primarily John R. Roche, grandfather of Mazo de la Roche, for an forthcoming book on the Canadian author.

File contains numerous newspaper articles pertaining to Alfred Wellington Purch (Dec. 30, 1918-Apr. 21, 2000) born in Wooler (Trenton) works include 33 books of poetry and a novel.