Two flyers advertising the Hastings County Museum including the days it was open, hours of operation, entrance fees, and a brief description of the collection. One has opening dates for 1962, the other for 1963.
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 guide books: 1) 'Over the Hills of Hastings', 1923, including a sheet with two maps of Hastings County 2) Belleville Ontario industrial investment guide, 1983 [2 copies] 3) 'Bay of Quinte Region Guide Book', 1986
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.
Dr. Fred Eggleton, Russ & Mary Sills, Annette Taylor
Constable Frank Wallwork, Russ Sills, Stirling Village Council, PoliceChief Jack Foster
Judy and Melanie Potts, Pearl Conley
Ross Ray, Harold Holden
Ron Reid, Eugene Lang, John Warden
Bob Vandervoort
Jim & Jean Pollock, Marvin Cooney, Heather Pollock
Craig Watson & son, Stirling Citizens Band, Barry Wilson
File also contains reproductions of old postcards of Stirling and a 1992 photograph by Carol Surridge of the 'Welcome to Stirling' sign, which reads "The little village with the big heart".
Two letters from Kennet Blackwell, Assistant Locomotive Superintendent at Belleville Station, dated November 15th and December 14th, 1876, concerning grievances of engineers and recommending their dismissal and the weakening of their union, the Brotherhood of the Grand Trunk Engineers and asking for instructions in the case of the men organizing a strike.
[These actions led to the Belleville riots of 1876-1877.]
Three volumes produced to support the Downtown Belleville Master Plan, all published in January 2006:
The Background Report
The Guiding Framework *The Implementation Strategy
Printed souvenir of the Grand Chapter of Ontario Order of the Eastern Star Twelfth Annual Session, held in Belleville, Ontario on June 21, 22 and 23, 1927. Includes photographs of Belleville City officials, Order of the Eastern Star members, and Belleville buildings.
1) Reproduction of a photograph of an unidentified family group outside a large brick house (identified on reverse as possibly Elijah Ketchson's home in Sidney Township), c.1890 2) Photograph of a group of twelve people, taken by W. S. Clarke, c.1910 3) Photograph of the 'Medicine, 1915 Association Football Team', winners of the MacClement Cup, 1915 Members of the team: C. R. Donevan; D. M. Livingstore; S. H. Martin; J. H. Box; F. W. Diamond; N. M. Grace; E. F. G. Ward; G. B. Burwell; H. C. Hagyard; G. T. G. Boyce; J. Carmichael; W. J. B. Brown; W. R. Stackhouse; G. A. Henry (President); O. Vanluven (Manager); W. V. Edwards 4) Group photograph taken at 'E.O.D.I.A. Field Day June 25, 24 at K.A.S. Kemptville', 1924 5) Reproductions of a photograph of staff and students of Stirling High School, 1931 6) Mounted pen-and-ink print of the old post office in Trenton, Ontario, c.1970