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Photographs, postcards, and school reports from members of the Covert and Cole families of Deseronto, Ontario. Some photographs are from the First World War training camps in Deseronto.

Three photographs loaned for scanning:
1) 1953 at Deseronto High School of Bev Cole (later Boomhour), Paula Akey, Ken Scovell, Jean Armitage and Donna Cole
2) 1961 taken inside Lucky Strikes Lanes, including Hugh and Winnie Magee and Vern Boomhour
3) 1968 Brownie pack picking up garbage on the site of the former Deseronto Public School (blurry). Pack leaders were Dorothea Keech and Bev Boomhour.
Papers for the Archives:
4) May 31st, 1979 Deseronto Public School ‘Items of Interest’ letter
5) 2006 Municipal Elections list of nominations for the Town of Deseronto, with notes of those elected.

Collection comprises:

1. Family cabinet card and tintype photographs, c.1860-1920
2. 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
3. Snapshots including several of Aselstine buses in Belleville, 1910-1940
4. Second World War ration books for Howard and Mae Aselstine and Dorothy Aitchison (their daughter, mother of Jane Bond), 1940s
5. Photograph album with pictures of Aselstine buses, 1890-1935
6. Newspaper clippings relating to the Aselstine bus business, 1965-1971
7. Typescript and hand-written notes on the history of the Aselstine business
8. Loose photographs, 1915-1970

Colour photographs taken by Bobby-Jo Morris of two events:
1) Protests on the Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory concerning missing and murdered Indigenous women, 4 March 2014 (16 photographs and four pages of explanatory notes)
2) Flooding in Foxboro, Belleville and Millton, Ontario in April 2014 (30 annotated photographs)

Photographs relating to Bill Hunt's research on rum-running.
1) Reproduction of photograph of Ben Kerr at the age of 22 in 1906
2) Photograph of Front Street and Victoria Park in Belleville, Ontario, looking south from the tower of City Hall, c.1950

Five annotated photographs of Belleville, Ontario, taken during the March 1936 floods.

Photographs and flyers from 1971 Deseronto centennial celebrations

Sixteen colour photographs of ice and flooding along the Moira river in Belleville, Ontario.

Collection of photographs from the Scott and Cooney families of Belleville, Ontario:
1) Streetcars and Tickell furniture factory on Foundry Street in Belleville, c.1895
2) Photograph of horses at the Quinte Exhibition grounds, c.1900
3-10) Photographs of the Quinte Exhibition (James Scott (1879-1947), the donor's grandfather, was the groundskeeper), c.1925
11) Page 9 and 10 of the S-A Conveyor, with photos from the Stephen-Adamson Christmas party, 1945
12) Photograph of children with Santa at a Stephens-Adamson Christmas party, c.1950
13) Photograph of Stephens-Adamson baseball team in front of the fountain at the Quinte Exhibition grounds (including Gordon Cooney, 1912-1968), c.1950
14) Gordon Cooney (father of Fay Bradshaw) and two other men having their hair cut at Seely's barber shop on Front Street in Belleville, c.1963

Collection comprising:
1) 4 black and white photographs of Belleville floods taken by Loreta Fairman (donor's aunt), 1936
2) 5 colour photographs of Belleville floods taken by Leslie Best, 1981
3) 2 Ontario Department of Highways maps of Prince Edward County, 1928 and 1967

Thirteen photographs of flooding in downtown Belleville in 1936 and four photographs of a parade passing along Front Street at Bridge Street in Belleville. The man and woman in the photographs have been identified by the donor as Winnifred Clark [the donor's mother] and her brother-in-law, Harold Thurgood. The child is likely to be one of Harold’s daughters, Barbara or Marilyn.

Two photographs taken in Tweed, Ontario:
1) Garage building on Spring Street
2) The old Ketcheson house

Photographs showing closed-off aisles and displays of non-essential items in Walmart, Belleville, after the Ontario government's stay-at-home order which took effect on April 8th, 2021 in an effort to stem the rise in COVID-19 cases in the province.

Photographs of the former Colp Block on the southwest corner of St. George and Edmon Streets in Deseronto, Ontario. The building was torn down in the early 1980s.

Photographs taken inside the Post Office building in Deseronto, Ontario, in May 2011 by Dana Valentyne.

Colour photographs of the town’s two original “Heart of Walleye World” fish signs and the three signs which were painted in 2006 to replace the old ones. The plywood was donated by the Town of Deseronto and the work of cutting out the fish shapes was undertaken by Tom Usher. Diane Myers painted the signs and the fish scales were done by a man called Gerry [surname unknown] who appears in the last two photographs.

Four reproduction photographs of military cadets at Belleville Collegiate Institute and Vocational School in the 1930s.

Nineteen photographs of the Norris Whitney bridge between Belleville and Rossmore, Ontario, under construction. Three were taken from the air when Ross Cummings was flying a Cessna 150 over the bridge.

Four photographs of St. Mark’s Church, Deseronto, Ontario:
1) Interior of church, taken by A. V. Richardson of Deseronto, early 20th century
2) Exterior of church, taken from Dundas Street, looking northwest, early 20th century
3) Interior of church, looking towards the altar, c.1940[?]
4) Exterior of church, taken from Dundas Street, looking north, dated December 1976

File of photographs taken during the restoration of 45 South Front Street, Belleville, Ontario.