Various photographic items: 1) Colour reproduction of a postcard of the Post Office building on Bridge Street in Belleville, c.1910 2) Reproduction of a view from west Belleville across the railway lines towards the harbour, c.1920 3) Reproduction of a photograph of the interior of a canning factory, c.1920 4) Reproduction of a view of the interior of a cigar store on North Front Street, Belleville, 1952 5) 29 black and white negatives of the Wharf Street Debating Club, 1980 6) Colour photograph of Bill Hunt junior in front of Bayview School (later demolished for a housing development), c.1985-1990 7) 13 colour photographs of the old Stephens Adamson factory in Belleville, built 1910, taken in 2007
File of materials used in a display about rum-runners in the Quinte area, including reproductions of photographs and newspaper clippings on Ben Kerr and the Corby distillery.
Photographic slides relating to rum running (80) and to First World War pilot training in Deseronto (40), with seven slides of an early aircraft in Belleville.
Research files for the book 'Dancing in the Sky', published by Dundurn Press in 2009. The book examined the history of the Royal Flying Corps in Canada in the First World War. File titles are:
Articles – Magazines
Airmail Flights in Canada
Accidents
Assistants to Gen. Hoare Godfrey
Adam, B.K (his letters)
Appendices
Accident Reports - Mainly Fatalities
Aircraft WWI
Allen, Major Dermott
Alcock, Wilfred
Andrews, C.H
Aces Canadian
Ackerman, Norman
Attestation Papers
Borden
Burke Preggy
Beamsville & Hamilton
Coats
Vernon Castle
Chronology
Canadian Air Force
Cadet Wing Review
Chasing Desperadoes
Cadets – Conditions, Food, Hours
Canadians Role
Charts – Graphs
Calnan, Lindley
Correspondence – Complete or Not Response
Chajkowski from Borden to Texas to Beamsville
Douglas, John Crawford
Deseronto – Accidents, Non-Fatal
Deseronto/Social
Deseronto, Construction
Deseronto, Visits to Tweed
Deseronto and Commanders
Deal with the U.S.A
Des. Rathbun Hospital
Egypt/Eng Training Estabe
Epilogue
Eardley Wilmont
Ferguson Lt. Military Cross Mother
Facts and Statistics, 1911 Population
Flying Minnows
Frostbite Flying
Fatalities, Rules of the Aircraft
Goold, Joe
Golding, K.L Correspondence
Halliway, A Summary
Halstead, J.S, A Mission to the RFC
Hoare Personal qualities, Flies under Niagara Bridge
Printed circular addressed to the teachers of Centre Hastings from A. W. McGuire, inspector of public schools. Dated at Tweed, Ontario, 10 March 1926.
Certificates from the polling station at Riggs School in Madoc Township, Hastings County, concerning the number of votes cast for George Jordan, Roscoe Robson and Ed Schievert in the Federal election of 7 June 1948.110 ballots were cast in total. Roscoe Robson was returned (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roscoe_Robson).
Six photographs: 1) Don and Ed Thomas in their cigar store on Front Street in Belleville, c.1950 2) Exterior of the Ed Thomas store, c.1950 3) Interior of the store, c.1950 4) Don McInroy, October 2012 5 & 6) John Alexiou, proprietor of Earl & Angelo's Restaurant upstairs in the Ed Thomas Bar, November 2012
Scrapbook with photocopies of newspaper clippings from the Intelligencer newspaper on the topic of the Wharf Street Debating Club of Belleville, Ontario.