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Materials donated are:

1. 1867 map of Trenton, showing lots
2. Trenton assessment rolls for 1884 and 1918
3. Fire insurance map of Trenton, 1924

Materials loaned for scanning are:

4. Map of Trenton, 1913
5. Map of Trenton, 1917
6. Panoramic view of Frankford, c. 1925
7. Group of Trenton soldiers, c.1915

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

One framed and four unframed honour rolls from the Second World War, recording the names of members of St. Andrew's Presbyterian who served in the armed forces.

Digital photographs of the Henderson building at 397-399 Front Street and the Coleman Castle building at 68 North Front Street.

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

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

The photographs are arranged by subject matter and cover activities in and around the town of Deseronto, Ontario. The majority date from the late nineteenth century and many depict the lumber-related industries of the Rathbun Company in Deseronto. There are also photographs of school groups, churches, railways, First World War airfields and portraits of Deseronto citizens.

A series of negatives of properties in Belleville, Ontario, taken by members of the Belleville Camera Club on behalf of the Historic Structures Committee of Hastings County Historical Society. Also a file containing a list of the houses in 'Area C' of Belleville (from the east side of Front Street to East Hill) which were to be photographed.

Negatives and photographs of activities and buildings at the Northern Electric plant on Sidney Street in Belleville, Ontario. These items were contained in a metal Kardex filing drawer. Headings on the file sleeves include:

• Erecting Gov. Towers [Negative 2019-055-001]
• Dismantling & Erecting N.E. Wooden Tower [Negatives 2019-055-002 to 2019-055-019 and print of negative 2019-055-017]
• Wave Guide Flexing Machine Built 1956 by N.E. Co Belleville [Negatives 2019-055-020 to 2019-055-078 and prints of negatives 2019-055-022, 2019-055-023, 2019-055-024, 2019-055-027, 2019-055-028, 2019-055-029, 2019-055-030 and 2019-055-047]
• City Fire Dept Demonstration 1955 [4 negatives including 2019-055-084 and 2019-055-085]
• Fire in Shopmen's Wash Rm. Partition. 1955 [5 negatives, 5 prints]
• Painting Chain Link Fences 1955 Contractor Carter & Son [2 negatives]
• Parking Lots 1951 [Includes negative 2019-055-089]
• Employee Infraction on City Parking Regulations 1955
• Car Parks 1955 [Negatives 2019-055-091 to 2019-055-093]
• Power House 1954 [11 negatives including 2019-055-094 and 2019-095]
  *Deterioration of 1947 Plant Roof Due to Negelcted Leak in Roof Membrane, 1955 [2 prints, 3 negatives]
• Deterioration in West Wall & South & North Corners of 1947 BLDG. Repointed Brickwork 1955 [30 prints, 32 negatives]
• Leaking Flashings [1 print]
• Slippage of Roof Material on 1951 Extension Saw Tooths Corrected 1955 By Application of S.I.S. Roofing. [3 prints, 3 negatives]
• 1951 Extension to Plant [44 prints, 106 negatives]
• Paint Shop Construction 1955 [13 prints, 20 negatives]
• Shop Partitions Designed & Built in Belleville Plant 1953 [4 prints, 7 negatives]
• Standard Benches Designed & Produced in Belleville Plant 1952 [1 print (labelled 'Sound Proof Booth'), 3 negatives]
• Moving Pacific Brake from CN Tracks to Belleville Plant [1 print, 4 negatives]
• 44 K.V. Substation Installation, 1954 [6 negatives]
• 1953 Fordson Tractor & Attachments [4 prints, negatives 2019-055-096 to 2019-055-103]
• Taken to Demonstrate Inefficient Material Handling [6 prints, 4 negatives]
• Warehouse 1954 [4 prints, 14 negatives including 2019-055-104 to 2019-055-106]
• Excavating for the 1951 Extension [16 prints, 3 negatives]

Receipts and certificates addressed to Thomas Kelso from suppliers and contractors involved in building his property at 161 George Street, Belleville, Ontario. The work was carried out between 1873 and 1876 under the direction of John D. Evans, architect. This collection also includes notes on the Kelso/Roberts family tree, compiled by Trudi and Bob Banting, with reproduction photographs of family members.

The material has been arranged into the following files:
1) Invoices and receipts relating to the construction of 161 George Street, Belleville, 1873-1876
2) Contractor's certificates relating to the construction of 161 George Street signed by John D. Evans, architect, 1873-1875
3) Summary of expenses relating to the construction of the house at 161 George Street, c.1875; calculation of simple and compound interest, 1869-1882; bill for pine lumber from the Rathbun Company, 1888; specifications for construction work for the Sodus Point & Southern Rail Road, not dated
4) Legal papers relating to costs incurred by the Grand Junction Railway in 1877; a case against Henry Covert involving Kelso and Pitceathly in 1879; a report into the condition and affairs of the Union Mutual Life Insurance Company of Maine, 1884
5) Abstracts of title for lots 4 and 5, east side of George Street, Belleville, 1950; newspaper clipping announcing the designation of 161 George Street, Belleville, 1986
6) Reproduction photographs of 161 George Street and Kelso/Roberts family members, c.2019

Photographs taken by members of the Cornell family of 47 John Street in Belleville, Ontario. Family snapshots, photographs of boats in Belleville Harbour, Presqu'ile lighthouse, cars, Billy Bishop's float plane.