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Photograph of the Ciaco Club, Belleville Industrial League Champions, 1928 and a reproduction of a photograph of the 1936 Corby Distillery baseball team.

Four photographs:

1. Class photograph of children at Belleville Central School (later Victoria School), c.1891
2. Class photograph of children at Belleville Central School (later Victoria School), c.1891
3. Choir of St. Thomas's Anglican Church, Belleville, 1893
4. Helen Corby's Young Men's Class of St. Thomas's Sunday School, Belleville, 1901

Items include reproduction photographs of nine Belleville Fire Chiefs: William J. Brown (1915-1929), William Lynch (1929-1948), Gerald Vance (1948-1965), Thomas E. Poste (1965-1969), Leo Culhane (1969-1977), Fred Hosking (1977-1985), Raymond Reid (1985), Gordon Gazley (1986-2008), Rhéaume Chaput (2008-2013); print of a hand pump, 1925; typescript information about automatic sprinkler systems, c.1960; photograph of St. Thomas's Church, Belleville, in flames, 1975.

Photographs of Belleville Fire Department activities and personnel.

A heart-shaped publication of mini-postcard images of Belleville produced by Charles B. Scantlebury in 1907.
Two photo-postcards of Belleville, Ontario, during spring flooding [possibly 1936], one showing the broken footbridge, the other taken on Bridge Street West.

Album with photographs commemorating the Belleville McFarlands hockey team's time in Prague, Czechoslovakia at the Ice Hockey World Championships, where they visited a glass factory and other local landmarks.

Three postcards of Belleville views, sent to Grace McCreery (1882-1956) by her mother, Ada Mary Stewart (1859-1932):

1. Bridge Street
2. St. Thomas's Anglican Church
3. Bridges over Moira River

One-page information sheet on the Belleville Senators, the American Hockey League and the planned renovation and expansion of the Yardmen Arena at the Quinte Sports and Wellness Centre.

Belleville Yardmen Benefit Fund lottery ticket, photograph of six members of the Board of the Fund and fifteen colour slides of the Quinte Sports Centre under construction.

Scrapbook of photographs, ephemera and newspaper clippings relating to Jean Lennox's membership of a Beta Sigma Phi sorority chapter in Belleville, Ontario.

Collection of materials from Bill Stovin, including:

• Prize list and ticket for Bay of Quinte Exhibition, 1897 [damaged by 'Ponton fire' in July 1954]
• Itinerary for train journey to Quebec City and hotel receipt, May 1946
• Letter from Belleville Chamber of Comerce about a reception at the Hotel Quinte, 27 March 1947
• Booklet of Rules and Regulations for No. 418 (Belleville) Wing R.C.A.F. Association, c.1950
• Pocket calendar with birthstones and wedding anniversaries from Paul Mercier, jeweller for 1952
• Kiwanis Club of Belleville bulletins for:
  • 27 April 1956 [top half only]
  • 14 March 1959
  • 18 July 1959
• Photocopies of photographs relating to CJBQ staff, 1950s
• Booklet about Canadian Forces Base Trenton, c.1974
• Photocopy of press clipping about a plaque to Horice Stovin at the Delta Bessborough Hotel, 11 December 2000
• Letter to Phil & Helen Flagler from Bill Stovin, 10 March 2001
• Letter to Phil from Stovin, 25 August 2008
• Undated letter from Stovin to Phil
• Printed email correspondence between Stovin, Gerry Boyce, Phil Flagler, and Shelley Wildgen about memories of CJBQ, 2010

Oversized items:

• 2 drawings by W. B. Mac of Belleville Sales & Advertising Club members, 1950s: Ted Schwab; Len Smith; Bill Stovin; Bill Riley, Ben Yanover; Brian Humphreys; Frank Murray; Phil Flagler; Ralph Plumpton; Fred Maund

Silk bookmark reads "Belleville's WELCOME To her distinguished Son. March 12th, 1895. Hon. Sir Mackenzie Bowell, K.C.M.G. From Belleville Schools to PREMIERSHIP OF CANADA".

Two photographs:

1. Canada Cement Co. Limited Plant No. 5 Belleville, Ont. June 1954
2. Bowling Banquet at Club Canara, Canada Cement, c.1955

Collection of materials relating to the Canada Optical Company in Deseronto, Ontario, including:

• Typescript catalogue of glasses frames, 1947
• Postcard with drawing of outside of plant, c.1950
• Visitor book with Polaroid photographs of visitors, 1969-1974
• Photograph album of staff events and activities, c.1975-1990
• Magazine and newspaper articles about the company, 1980-1993
• Product information sheets, 1980s
• Employee benefits book, 1986
• 14 colour photographs of people and equipment at the plant, 1980s

The materials were collected by Don Simpson, former general manager of the Deseronto plant.

Two pairs of glasses made at the Canada Optical Company in Deseronto, with paper casings. Models: Lana Brown Silk and Lana Black (both made of plastic with seven diamanté stones over each eye).