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Fan made of card with a wooden handle, advertising Sinclair's Dry Goods and Ladies' Garments. The store was on Front Street in Belleville, Ontario. The text on the back of the fan reads "Compliments of Sinclair's Dry Good and Ladies' Garment, Belleville, Ontario, the store where you get quality, style, service and economical prices. We invite your patronage. We study the wants of our customers and sell only standard high-grade goods". On the front of the fan is a drawing of a woman sewing a Union flag.

Photographs of military personnel, taken during the First World War. Some are signed 'R.G.S.', including a photograph of the Halifax Explosion. The collection also includes a set of Ottawa street scenes.

Individuals identified in the photographs include: Jim Parm, Petty Officer Pace, Ted Lazier, Ted Wallbridge, Keith Petepiece, Reg Stevens [probably Reginald Garnet Stevens, 1896-1971, the R.G.S. who took the photographs], P. Domville, Colonel W. J. McEllinny.

Ottawa street scenes depict: Parliament Hill, Lovers Walk, Government House, Chateau Laurier, the Eastern Departmental Block, Interprovincial Bridge, City Hall Square, the Rideau Canal locks.

Forty photographs in album, a few pages with missing images. Images are signed "C.H.E."

Booklet published by the Ontario Department of Lands and Forests, written by W. J. (Jack) Christie.

Five photographs of firefighters dealing with a fire in oil tanks at Cities Service Oil at 105 John Street South in Belleville, Ontario.

1. Record of sales made at William Clements' general store in Ivanhoe, Ontario, with name of customer, item purchased and price of item, 8 July 1905 - 3 October 1906
2. Reproduction photograph of C.P.R. station at Ivanhoe, Ontario, c.1920
3. Photocopy of page of information about the Ivanhoe General Store, taken from Ode to Ivanhoe by Janice Fleming , 1983

Notes on Deseronto’s history and a number of postcards and photographs. Includes a collection of 43 calendars from firms in Napanee, Newburgh and Selby from 1941-1970.

Scanned copies of five photographs collected by Flying Officer Lawrence, an instructor at one of the Royal Flying Corps/Royal Air Force pilot training camps in Deseronto, Ontario, during the First World War.
1) Aircraft being recovered from the Bay of Quinte by a launch
2–4) Aerial photographs of aircraft C187 with a man ‘wing-walking’ [Lieutenant Ned Ballough]
5) Three men standing next to crashed aircraft C245

Photographs taken by Belleville, Ontario, photographers.

Charter for Belleville Local Division Number 126 of the Canadian Brotherhood of Railway Employees and Other Transport Workers.
Officers listed:
President: J. G. Shaw
Treasurer: C. Kellet
Financial Secretary: V. P. McIntyre
Local Chairman: H. J. Armstrong
Recording Secretary: C. A. Finnigan
Reporter: H. Pointer

Framed items removed from Belleville City Hall Council Chambers during renovations in January 2021.

1. Framed reproduction of a photograph of members of the last council of the Town of Belleville, 1877
2. Letter from the First Clerk Assistant of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario certifying that a photocopy of the Act for the Incorporation of the Town of Belleville as a City was a true copy of the act of 2 March 1877, 24 June 1977 [2 copies]
3. Framed reproduction of the City of Belleville armorial bearings, 8 January 1982
4. Frame containing four photographs of the former City of Belleville Council Chambers, 1987 [Note that this item was returned to City Hall for reframing and display in the refurbished Council Chambers on 24 August 2021.]
5. Framed photograph of Queen Elizabeth II donated by Lyle Vanclief MP, c.1990
6. Framed photograph of Prince Philip donated by Lyle Vanclief MP, c.1990
7. Framed photograph of Governor General Ramon John Hnatyshyn donated by Lyle Vanclief MP, c.1990
8. Framed registration of armorial bearings in the Public Register of Arms, Flags and Badges of Canada, 1 May 1992
9. Framed photograph donated by the City of Lahr, August 2009
10. Framed photograph of Queen Elizabeth II, 2010

Framed photograph, a collage of photographs of 26 "Aldermen and civic officials of the City of Belleville" in Queen Victoria's Jubilee Year. The men are identified as: A. N. Pringle; P. J. M. Anderson; W. L. Fellowes; E. G. Porter; W. Reeves; J. N. Lazier; C. Bogart; M. Graham; J. C. Keith; E. H. LaRoche; D. B. Robertson, City Clerk; W. J. Diamond; W. H. Biggar, Mayor; L. H. Henderson, City Solicitor; R. Taylor, Street Surveyor; James Macoun; N. B. Falkiner; J. W. Johnson; R. Tannahill, City Treasurer; G. A. Brown; A. T. Petrie; William Smeaton; D. J. Hay; D. Collins; William Lott; L. Johnson.

Large framed item with individual photographs of:

• Queen Victoria School with students outside
  and the following Belleville Board of Education members:
• B. Mallory
• S. S. Moore
• F. S. Deacon
• William Johnson (Deceased)
• F. E. O'Flynn, B.A.
• W. C. Reid
• A. McGie
• H. Sneyd
• T. E. Ketcheson
• [name missing: possibly Alfred J. McCrodan]
• A. E. Bailey
• Frank Sharpe
• S. T. Harris
• Thomas Cushing
• George T. Woodley
• W. J. Diamond (Secretary Treasurer)
• A. C. Wilkin (Principal)
• H. J. Clarke, B.A. (Inspector of South Hastings)
• John Muir
• S. A. Gardner (Supernumerary teacher and superintendent)
• John Elliott
• L. C. Pascoe
• L. R. Terwilligar
• W. R. Taylor
• J. B. Ives
• P. Harrison
• H. L. Ingram
• Colonel W. N. Ponton M.A. K.C. (Chairman of Board 1914-1915)
• C. M. Reid (Chairman of Board 1912-1913)

Three items:

1. Photograph of the staff of the Reliance Aircraft & Tool Company Limited in Belleville, Ontario, 1943
2. Flyer for the Bridge Street Drive-In Theatre in Belleville, 1956
3. Card for Jack Hollyoake, proprietor of the Hotel Belvedere, c.1965

Listing of surnames and collecting institutions in the Quinte and surrounding regions where further information on the genealogy of that family could be found. Compiled by Belleville Public Library.

Report on the ancestors of Hugo Burghardt Rathbun.

Sunday school attendance register for Marmora Methodist Church, Marmora, Ontario, including a printed page with an image of the late Canon C. M. Harris, 1854-1923, Rector at Marmora. Also banquet invitation and menu for an event held at the Hotel Quinte for Hastings County councillors on 10th December 1926.

This group of records documents the educational, personal, political, research, and cultural activities of Gerry Boyce from his schooldays onward.

Lantern slides and negatives:

1. Five lantern slides with drawings of animals
2. 54 lantern slides with Bruce Bairnsfather cartoons, produced by the Presbyterian Lantern Slide Department, Toronto
3. Four negatives taken outside a house
4. Note about the donation of the slides