A red and white quilt made in 1894 by the Steady Gleaners, a group of women affiliated with the Presbyterian Church of the Redeemer, Deseronto, Ontario, possibly with the aim of raising funds for missionary work. This quilt may have been made for such a purpose. The signatures of the women in the society are embroidered onto the squares of the quilt.
The names on the quilt are: F.M.R. Bella Smyth Mrs Wm. Gamble Florence A. Davis Mrs F. S. Rathbun Alice McGault Mrs C. E. Ravin Mrs J. W. McCaw Mrs G. Genge Mrs Wm. Mitchell Mrs R. J. Craig, President Mrs Frank S. Hall [Bessie] Annie Hill Mrs McCoy Mrs F. H. Sims Mrs J. D. Dulmadge Mrs J. Douglas Tillie Maxwell Mrs D. Dant Miss Mary Huff Mrs G. Gordon Ella Pegan Mrs G. A. Grant Mrs Joe Hopper Mrs Wm. Geney Gertrude R. Craig Aggie Elliott Mrs Mackie Mrs A. D. Macintyre I. Thornton Mrs C. Forrester Mrs R. Anderson Ira B. Anderson L. Smyth Mrs R. Geddes Mrs F. McMaster Mrs J. M. Denmark Mrs A. G. Knight Mrs J. Buter Clara McClain Mrs C. Bennett Mrs J. T. Garmon
A certified reproduction of the Plan of Ponton's Block, being Lots # 21 & 22 on the south side of Bridge Street West, Belleville, for William Hamilton Ponton, on the Commercial Bank Plan. Surveyed by John J. Haslett P.L.S. in 1853.
This copy was made in 1972 of plan #27, as registered in the Hastings Land Registry Office.
A certified reproduction of the "Plan of part of Lots # 1 & 2, Concession 1 Thurlow, Part of the Commercial Bank Plan. Resubdivided by owners Maria Murney and Nathaniel Baldwin Falkiner." Some of the lot owners are named along the south side of Charlotte Street: George Ritchie Lot # 28, Lt. Col. Campbell and Jacob Wilson Lot # 28. Surveyed by John D. Evans, P.L.S., and signed October 15, 1872.
This copy was made in 1972 of plan #158, as registered in the Hastings Land Registry Office.
Family cabinet card and tintype photographs, c.1860-1920
Staff and students of Grier Street School, Belleville, 1905 and original and copy of two 1908 Grier Street school photographs (the copy was published in the Intelligencer), both including Howard Aselstine
Snapshots including several of Aselstine buses in Belleville, 1910-1940
Second World War ration books for Howard and Mae Aselstine and Dorothy Aitchison (their daughter, mother of Jane Bond), 1940s
Photograph album with pictures of Aselstine buses, 1890-1935
Newspaper clippings relating to the Aselstine bus business, 1965-1971
Typescript and hand-written notes on the history of the Aselstine business
Printed illustrated card with poem entitled 'The Union Jack'. The card was produced as a souvenir of the raising of the British flag on No. 3 School House, Octavia Street, Belleville on Tuesday 24 May 1892, Queen Victoria's 73rd birthday. "With Compliments of the 'Old Belleville Rifle Co.' (No. 1 Co., 49th Battalion, Hastings Rifles)."
Photographs, printed materials, certificates, newspaper clippings and administrative records relating to the education of nurses in Belleville, Ontario.
Reproduction of a map of a town site at the mouth of the Moira River [Belleville, Ontario]. Features lot owners and businesses already located in the area. Original by Samuel Wilmot, April 24, 1816. Scale: 1= 1,500.
Printed by the Hastings County Historical Society in 1969.
The file contains a photocopy of the original Royal Letter dated 15 September 1856, granting permission by Queen Victoria to J.W. Dunbar Moodie of Hastings County to establish a Public Fair and Mart in the Village of Shannonville.
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