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Digital photographs taken on the first day of school at Eastside Secondary School in Belleville, Ontario. See also the school's Instagram account at https://www.instagram.com/eastsideravens/.

Typewritten list of names residents of Tweed, Ontario,1902-1920, with their professions, four photographs of the Belleville, Ontario, flood of 1936 and two newsclippings from April 1999 about the Belleville Choral Society.

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.

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.

Collection comprises:

• album with 128 photographs of family scenes taken by Hannah Harrison of 64 Emily Street, Belleville, Ontario
• mounted photograph of the house at 64 Emily Street, c.1900
• photograph of six young women in naval costumes (Hannah Harrison bottom right), c. 1910
• Methodist Church annual ticket for 1902-1903 in the name of Hannah Harrison
• Canadian National Railways passes for David Harrison, blacksmith, 1935-1942
• 'Happy Birthday Sweetheart' card addressed to Hannah Harrison, 1939
• Wharf Street Debating Club membership card in the name of D. Harrison, 1941
• photographs of Hannah Harrison holding a baby, c.1970.

Album of photographs compiled by a member of the Hobbs family. Teddie Hobbs appears in one of the photographs and there is also a photograph of the grave of J. E. Hobbs. The majority of photographs are of the First World War Royal Flying Corps training camps in North America: Camps Borden and Mohawk in Ontario and Camp Taliaferro in Texas.

Collection of materials comprising:

1. Photograph of Intelligencer press room, 1903
2. Framed and mounted front page of the Daily Ontario for 28 April 1924 (with Gwen Lazier story)
3. Belleville Diesel Electric O.H.A. Senior Hockey Club programme, 1949-1950 (donated by Harm Bisschop)
4. Framed aerial photograph of Belleville by Richard Lumbers, June 1965
5. Printing proof for front page of The Intelligencer of 14 June 1977
6. Quinte Air Show calendar, 2017

Photographs of scenes in and around Belleville, Ontario, including a circus parade, Lincoln Beachey's aircraft, the talc mine at Madoc and military groups.

Collection principally comprises research notes, newspaper clippings, promotional publications and postcards relating to the history of the town of Deseronto, Ontario. It also includes a file of materials relating to a voyage on the Empress of Scotland ship in 1956.

1. Deseronto postcards and photographs, 1900-1920
2. Notes and ephemera relating to Kay Allin's voyage on the Empress of Scotland, July 1956
3. Publication Kente Mission, 1668-1680, 1968
4. Notes by Kay Allin on the history of Deseronto, c.1980-1990
5. Notes by Kay Allin on the history of the Presbyterian Church of the Redeemer in Deseronto, c.1980-1990
6. File of newspaper clipping relating to Deseronto, 1967-1980
7. Scrapbook of newspaper clippings relating to the Rathbun family, 1972-1980
8. Scrapbook of newspaper clippings relating to Deseronto, 1978-1990
9. Reproduction of Deseronto High School 'Ballyhoo' publication, May 1928
10. Deseronto flyers and publications, including 1978 program for the North American Outboard Championships, 1967-1989
11. Publications relating to centennial celebrations in Deseronto, 1971 and 1989

Tintypes and photographs taken or collected by members of the Lazier family of Belleville, Ontario. There are 10 tintypes, all showing groups of two or more young men. The other photographs were taken in Belleville between 1900 and 1975.

Letter from Frederick Manlis Miller to Thomas Henry Coppin, agent, informing him that Miller had enlisted for active service. Several pages and printouts of 2013 research by Richard Hughes on Miller's family history. Also a copy of a newspaper article on a family history story relating to Hughes' grandmother in England and Belleville mayor George Zegouras, with a copy of a photograph of Zegouras and Hughes.

Twenty-six postcards of scenes in Belleville, Ontario.

Photographs of members of the Winsor, Holgate and Searle families of Hastings County, Ontario and the Cannifton Mills of Charles Arthur Holgate.

Two photographs, a colouring book, a Quinte Weekly News newspaper of 22 December 1987 and 'What's Happening' magazine November/December 1993. The publications have features on the 'Santa's Village' Christmas display of Bruce and Marjorie Nickle of Marsh Street, Belleville, Ontario, set up in memory of Billy Foster. One photograph shows a snow-covered toadstool house and two gnomes, the other shows the 'Santa's Workshop' structure made by students of the Sir James Whitney School for the Deaf.

Flyers, newspaper clippings and choir photographs relating to activities at St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church in Belleville, Ontario.

1. Photo of Lucinda Hill wiith her children (from left): Susan, Elizabeth and James, and her grand-daughter, Elsie (Elizabeth's daughter). Lucinda was born on the Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory in around 1843, the daughter of Isaac and Catherine Hill and she married another Isaac Hill. By the time of the 1871 census she was a widow, living with her three children (Elizabeth, 10, James, 8 and Susan 5) in the household of her nephew, William Claus. Elsie was 15 at the time of the 1901 census, when she was living in Deseronto, Ontario with her mother and grandmother. In the photograph, she looks about five or six years old, which would date the portrait to around 1892. The photo was taken by Herbert A. Osborne, who was active in Deseronto in the mid-1890s. The image has damaged edges and is broken into two pieces.
2. Mounted photograph of the Presbyterian Church of the Redeemer and the Manse in St. George Street, Deseronto, Ontario. Taken by James Fairbairn, photographer (born 1866) in around 1910.
3. Photo of Deseronto High School
4. Photo album – none of the images identified. Inscribed “To Lizzie from a little fried Weber Featherstonhaugh Deseronto Ont”
5. Bible
6. Bible
7. Martine’s Handbook of Etiquette
8. Common Sense in the Household
9. Searchlights or Light on Dark Corners
10. The Victory Readers Book I
11. Pocket Ready Reckoner
12. Photograph of Cyril W. Bird [married in Belleville 1891, evangelist – died in Africa, 12 Feb 1896]
13. Letter from James Hill to his sister, Susan Maracle, 1904
14. Various loose papers: permit to leave Canada for William Smith, 1918, Christmas Card, newspaper cuttings of marriages and obituaries; ‘In Memoriam” 1898 publication on the death of Frederick Sherwood Rathbun; instructions on removing afterbirth from cows[?]; marriage certificate for William Smith and Lydia Claus, 1902; stub of marriage certificate of David Powliss and Harriet Baptiste, 1917; embroidery reading “Thou Art my Hope”

Collection comprises the following items:

Maps

1. Plan of part of the Town of Deseronto, before 1898 (the Terra Cotta works are still standing), showing roads, railways, buildings and lot numbers for properties south of Dundas Street, east of College Street (which has no name on the map) and west of Boundary Road. The map is hand-coloured to show the blocks and railways.

2. Negative photocopy (in 4 parts) of a plan of Mill Point village, 1875

Volumes

3. Bank of Montreal account book for A.S. Valleau, Collector of Customs. 1901 March 26 – 1905 December 30. Includes six official Customs Canada cheques, one for the salary of Thomas Maloney.

4. Auditors’ Report, Financial Statement and Minutes and Bylaws for the year 1947, the Corporation of the County of Hastings

5. 1950 Municipal directory, Department of Municipal Affairs, Province of Ontario. Includes brief details on towns and villages. Mayor of Deseronto was R.K.Jackson, clerk Miss M.C. Maher, population 1,473.

6. Minutes of the Local Board of Health, 1920, May 14 - 1941, Nov 18. Includes loose papers – correspondence, some annual reports

7. ‘Record’, Local Board of Health minutes, 1942, February 23 – 1966, May 25, includes copies of correspondence and draft minutes

8. ‘Docket No. 2’ Court register, 1932, July 29- 1933, July 18, giving name of defendant, details of offence and outcome of hearing. Indexed by surname of defendant

9. Division Court judges’ list for sittings, 1933, July 26 – 1944, March 7, includes names of plaintiffs, defendants and garnishees, with the amount owed and a brief record of the outcome of each case.

10. County of Hastings report and statements, December 31, 1946, by Garrett D. C. Morton, certified General Accountant. Typescript auditor’s account.

11. Bound ‘Population Census’ summary, 1951-1953, showing number of individuals in each lot by age.

12. Bound ‘Population Census’ summary, 1954-1955, showing number of individuals in each lot by age.

13. Bound ‘Population Census’ summary, 1956-1964, showing number of individuals in each lot by age.

1. Plan of the Town of Deseronto, with lot numbers, 1931
2. File of correspondence labelled 'Police Court' containing letters relating to fines issued for speeding in Deseronto, 1950-1951
3. Printed copy of The British Commonwealth Air Training Plan broadcast by Mackenzie King on 17 December 1939

Two photographs:

1. Canadian Expeditionary Force, 155th O.S. Battalion at Barriefield, July 6, 1916 . A cropped version of the same image is available online here: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/25/155th_Battalion%2C_Barriefield%2C_July_6%2C_1916._No._498_%28HS85-10-32556%29.jpg
2. Unidentified military unit standing on a large parade ground in an unnamed city, with a water tower in the background carrying an advertisement for Sweet Caporal Cigarettes. This image has been scanned and is available online at https://www.flickr.com/photos/cabhc/35460399302/