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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

Postcard addressed to Miss Florence Roberts of Paris, Ontario, with a picture of the Bay of Quinte Bridge on the front. Mailed in October 1905. Signed 'Eva'.

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

Photograph of staff and students of Queen Mary Public School, Octavia Street, in Belleville, Ontario, taken in front of the school. Principal: D. Barragar.

"Photo No.1837 by Toronto Panoramic Photography Co. G. W. Latta, Prop., 252 Lansdowne Avenue".

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.

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]

Founding charter of the Argyll Chapter (number 159) of the Imperial Order of the Daughters of Empire, granted by the National Chapter of Canada to founding members Mary G. Ponton, Zetta S. March, Bertha H. Vermilyea, Amy I. McFee, Helen G. Wallbridge, Edith R. Hyman, Helena G. Vermilyea, Amy R. Wallbridge, Mary Lee, Mary S. Orr, Flora M. Brown.

Panoramic photograph of staff and students of Belleville High School, Belleville, Ontario.

"Photo No.1833 by Toronto Panoramic Photography Co. G. W. Latta, Prop., 252 Lansdowne Avenue"

Colour photographs of the Norris Whitney bridge under construction between Rossmore and Belleville, Ontario and aerial photographs of Belleville, Wellington, Picton, Tweed, Stirling and the open pit mine at Marmora. Photographs of aircraft, including a replica of the 'Spirit of St. Louis', which visited Belleville in 1977 or 1978.

Collection includes photographs taken by Howard Aselstine, mainly of floods in Belleville, Ontario, in 1918, and a file of materials relating to the 50th reunion of the class of 1930-1931 of King George Public School in Belleville (held on 20 June 1981), compiled by Dorothy Aitchison, one of the organizers.

Copy of a series of photographs of the 1919 Belleville Grand Trunk Railway baseball team, winners of the Central Ontario League Amateur Championship.

Players identified are: J. Kelleher; J. L. Casey; G. V. Weir; H. Whalen; J. S. Smith; S. Simmons; A. G. Meagher; F. Goyer; W. Gerow; W. Mills; Doug Simon; J. W. Ross.

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

Photographs of people and places in Belleville, Ontario:
1) Crowds enter Yardmen Arena for Senators first home game, Nov. 1, 2017
2) Gerry Boyce, Mr. History, January 1, 2018
3) Belleville Harbour, June, 2018
4) Chisholm’s Mills with millpond, August 2018
5) & 6) Unveiling of a commemorative boulder at Mount St. Patrick Catholic Cemetery, Stanley Street Belleville, Sept. 16, 2018
7) Porchfest: Male choir on porch of 246 Albert Street, Porchfest, Sept. 29, 2018
8) Demolition of former Stephens-Adamson property, fall 2018

Six digital reproductions of photographs relating to Roy Wardle's time in the Belleville Fire Department, Belleville, Ontario.

Items produced to mark CN Railway Week in Belleville, May 21-27, 1978.

Mounted photograph of a "Rexall Week" promotional window display at John Spottiswood McKeown's drugstore, 271 Front Street, Belleville, Ontario, c.1920. Photograph taken by Robert McCormick of Belleville. The display features a range of Rexall products, including: Liver Salts, Rubbing Oil, Baby Laxative, Rexall Orderlies, Celery & Iron Tonic, Beef Iron & Wine, Cherry Bark and Dyspepsia Tablets.

McKeown was born in Belleville in 1871. He was the son of John McKeown senior (a boot and shoe merchant) and Mary Bullen. He married Caroline (Carrie) Lingham on October 5th, 1898 and they had one daughter, Helen, born in 1901. In 1921 the family were living at 16 Alexander Street, Belleville, with a maid called Florence Parks.

McKeown's Drug Store was at this location in Front Street from c.1915 to the late 1960s, when it was taken over as The Coach Room, part of Woodley's Furs. This photograph was found by members of the Woodley family in the basement of the building.

Aerial photograph showing the Stream building on Dundas Street West in Belleville, Ontario. The business opened in 2000.

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.

Scanned copies of negatives and one photograph taken by staff of the Ontario School for the Deaf (now Sir James Whitney School for the Deaf). They include photographs of children taking part in classes, sports and activities at the school. The photograph shows City Hall in Belleville, Ontario, decorated for the visit of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in May 1939.

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