File contains a printed completed tax assessment issued to Isaac Frost for a retail property on the east side of Front Street, Ketcheson Ward, Belleville, in 1890.
File contains a poster for the Ontario Institution for the Deaf and Dumb in Belleville; one side features a drawing of the building and a photo of the graduating class and the other side features the “Single-Hand Alphabet”.
File contains a scholarship certificate awarded Mr. Isaac Frost for the Ontario Commercial College (O.C.C.) in 1869. There is also a newspaper clipping from 1872 advertising the O.C.C.
File contains a newspaper clipping about the history of the Foster family (from settling in Canada in 1810 from Massachusetts to building business in Belleville until the end of the 19th century). There is also typed biographical information of W.A. Foster (b. 1836 d. 1881).
Research material on Joseph H. Dow. Includes: 83 page book on The Dow Chemical Company from 1983, 5 pages of correspondence between E. N. Brandt and Lois Foster, 2 photocopies, and 113 page book The Papers of Herbert H. Dow: A Guide for the Scholarly by E. N. Brandt and Barbara Schettig Brennan.