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Copies of photographs:

1. Ebenezer Arthur Rixen of Deseronto, Ontario. Rixen was born in London, England on February 5th, 1857, the son of James Rixen and Elizabeth (née Moore). He married Ellen Gault in Deseronto on November 5th, 1884 and died in Thomas Street, Deseronto on June 10th, 1928. He was buried in the Deseronto Cemetery. Rixen was an accountant and insurance agent. He served as Mayor of Deseronto in 1917 and 1918.
2. Ellen Rixen (née Gault) of Deseronto, Ontario. Ellen was born in Mill Point (Deseronto) in 1862, the daughter of John and Sarah Gault. She married Ebenezer Arthur Rixen in Deseronto on November 5th, 1884. She died on April 4th, 1955 and was buried in the Deseronto Cemetery.

Photographs of Roy Bonisteel at Hastings County Historical Society events and beside the Moira River in Belleville with Doug Knutson.

Digital copies of three photographs of Thomas Hanley (1842-1907), architect.

Scanned copies of 25 photographs taken during Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment training exercises in Petawawa during the Second World War, with transcription of notes made on the reverse of the photographs.

Photographs of lumber camps and First World War infantry units in the Marmora area of Hastings County, Ontario.

Scanned photographs and newspaper cutting relating to the family of John Poitras, who lived in Deseronto from 1875 to around 1896 and worked for the Rathbun Company as a superintendent.

1. Herbert 'Bert' Poitras, part of a Deseronto sports team
2. Poitras home on St. George Street, north of the Presbyterian Church
3. Same house from a more oblique angle
4. ‘Sol Markle’
5. Grace Poitras (b.1883) and her brother Bert as small children
6. Deseronto Tribune article about the Poitras’s cottage and summer camp at Butternut Cove, Aug 24, 1894
7. Grace Poitras in a nurse’s uniform, 1904, taken in Watertown, NY
8. Man on an ice-boat
9. Man on an ice boat, labelled ‘Tom Tierney, 1896’

Copies of photographs:

1. United Restaurant, 349 Main Street, Deseronto, Ontario
2. United Restaurant
3. Former Deseronto High School building on Thomas Street, Deseronto

Photographs from an album compiled by George Munk during his time with the 85th Canadian Training Squadron of the Royal Flying Corps/Royal Air Force at Camp Mohawk near Deseronto and CampTaliaferro in Fort Worth, Texas.

Five photographic reproductions of sketches of Belleville by Edwin Whitefield taken from a Royal Ontario Museum sketchbook with views of "Lake Ontario & St. Lawrence River' (ROM: 958.70 A-AG). The photographs were purchased by Don Kellaway and these copies were made by Lois Foster.

Scanned copy of class photograph [grade 2] of boys at Deseronto Public School, c.1960.

Children identified as:
Back row: Wayne Keech, Dennis Layfield, ?, Larry Boomhour, ?, Bobby Gilligan, Barry Brummell
Middle row: ?, Paul McTaggart, Andrew Grossett, Bob Sherman, Don Armitage jnr, Terry D. Rushie, Bobby Blewett
Front row: Clayton Brant, David Foster, Philip Berry, Butch (Marshall) Claus, Bob Brinklow, Arnie Marks, Marvin Brooks

Portrait of George Hamilton Backus (1830-1904). He worked for Brown's foundry in Belleville, and was a member of City Council in 1885 and a public school trustee. He was also a member of the volunteer fire brigade and associated with the 49th Hastings Rifles. He was a member of St. John's Presbyterian Church.

Scanned copy of a photograph of Dr. Joan Bronskill (1924-1978), who spent most of her career as an entomologist at the Entomological Research Institute in Belleville, Ontario. She was well known for her support of the arts in Belleville, being a founder of the Quinte Ballet School, a member of the Belleville Theatre Guild, and a charter member of the Quinte Arts Council.

Photograph shows the Pasmore pharmacy at the northwest corner of St. George and Thomas Streets in Deseronto, Ontario. The owner of this property was Dr. William Pasmore.

Members of the Belleville Memos hockey team, 1954-1955
Back row: Claude Tice, Vern Goyer, Hub Macey, Ted Degray, Jack Wade Red Doran, John Mockerr, Jerry Hyde
Middle row: Art Charleton, Peter Jones, Davey Jones, Frank Betioll, Doug (Knobber) Day, Bob Wilson, Drury Denyes
Front row: Tony Parisi, Keith MacDonald, Edwin Duncan, Bruce Smith, Erwin Duncan, Doug Hull, Don (Turk) Barclay, Doug Murray

Scanned copy of an aerial photograph of the Ontario School for the Deaf, looking north from Dundas Street West in Belleville, Ontario.

Scanned image of a certificate of first communion and confirmation for Virginia Houle (1874-1944), the donor's grandmother. She received her first communion in Deseronto, Ontario, in August 1885 [at St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church] and was confirmed in Napanee, Ontario on November 3rd, 1887 [at St. Patrick's Catholic Church].

The certificate was printed by L. Turgis, 60 Rue Des Ecoles, Paris.

Photograph album of Stuart Hilton Plante's time as a member of the Royal Flying Corps/Royal Air Force stationed at Camp Mohawk near Deseronto, Ontario.

Snapshot of children and Santa Claus at a Christmas party held by the Presbyterian Church of the Redeemer in Deseronto, Ontario, c.1960.

The children have been identified (left to right) as: Frances Klaver, Teresa Idzenga, Stella Idzenga, [?], [?], Shirley Klaver, [?], [?], Allan Klaver, ? Pringle, Gail Reid.

Photograph of James Ernest Walmsley as John Bull, with Harry Moorman as Uncle Sam and [possibly] Frances (sometimes spelt Francis) Nicholson as Miss Canada. They played these characters in a Tabernacle Methodist Church performance of 'The Courtship of Miss Canada' in 1914.

Staff of Shannonville Canning Ltd., Shannonville, Ontario, in September 1938.

Names supplied:

Back row: Nellie Howard, Maggie Brant, Maggie Maracle, Mae Hill, Ethel Bardy, Georgina Rupert, Edna Maracle, Beatarice Brant, John Weese, ?, Mac FitzGerald, Lena FitzGerald, Edna Fuller, Harold Burtt, Mavis John, ?, Beatrice Smart, ?, Blanche Hill, Ivan Hill, Cora Maracle, Harold Elmy, Mr. Rightmyer, Tommy Howard and Percy "Diner" Howard

Second row: Marjorie FitzGerald, Dorsey Brant, Josie FitzGerald, Ethel John, Lydia Marion, Winnifred Maracle, Julia Maracle, Lydia Maracle, Kathleen Louis, Sadie Maracle, Gladys Brant, Eva Burtt, Anita Goodfellow, Stella Breadman, ?, Mrs Burtt, Winnie Howard and Marjorie Brant

Third row: Vincent Bardy, Madeline Spencer, ?, Pearl Brant, Leola Brant, Evelyn Noye, Muriel Hill, Alice Dow, Marjorie Elmy, Marion Hill, Reta Conley, Edna McCarthy, Helena Sager, Maggie Hill, Bertha Reed, Flossie ?, and Helen Fuller

Front row: Austin Fuller, Ross Brant, Clifford Hill, Eugene Maracle, Lorne Maracle, Harry Uens, ?, William Hill, ?, Carmon Spencer, Laural Burtt, Gerald Louis, Blake Cook and Roy Sager