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Gough the Clothier 1916

File contains a booklet case with a Gough's Clothier advertisement and a list of start and end dates for First World War knitting projects, and an original flyer advertising the prices of merchandise.

Reeves, Emma Maud

Grace B. Waters photograph albums

  • CA ON00156 GBW
  • Fonds
  • 1914-1946

The First World War photograph album contains about 164 black and white or sepia photographs, 1 cartoon entitled "The same old moon", 1 coloured pencil sketch of a nurse. The album is Kodak's "Gallia" model (32.5x26x2cm) in plain black, textured leatherette. The photographs vary greatly in size from 21 x 14.5 cm to 8.5 X5.9 cm. About 40 of the photographs are signed either "E.R. Owen" or "E.R.O.". The first photograph is marked in pencil, "Donor G.B.Waters". Many of the photographs depict the Duchess of Connaught Canadian Red Cross Hospital in Cliveden, England. Many images depict the hospital at the time of a visit by King George V and Queen Mary, a visit by Sir Robert Borden, and a visit by Winston Churchill. There are images of the hospital wards both indoors and out, the cafeteria, the linen supply, and many patients (a lot of the patients seem to be wearing special issue hospital shoes) and nurses. Subjects include: nurses of the Canadian Army Medical Corps; funerals; women ambulance drivers; trenches, military hospitals.

The second album dates from 1916 to 1921. Identified locations include: Athabaska Hall; Banff (Alberta); Red Deer; Lake St. Helena; Edmonton; Sylvan Lake; Mount Royal; Montreal (from M.G.H.); Fort William [Thunder Bay]; Lake of the Woods; Moose Jaw; Markerville; Innisfail; New York. There are several photographs of farm scenes and some of medical personnel in white coats, holding human bones.

The third album includes photographs taken at a graduation at McGill University in Montreal; scenes of Niagara Falls; photographs of cars; two photographs of hospital rooms.

This collection also includes an annual report for Kingston General Hospital, 1906; a brochure for Queen's University Hospital in Cairo, c.1915; five panoramic postcards of Le Tréport, France, c.1915; a letter from 'Elsa' of Dickson, Alberta to Ivy, Clifford and Lloyd, discussing her new job as head of a teacher training department in Ethiopia, dated 5 August 1946, and two sheets of song lyrics for the following songs:
Sheet 1
Cupid is the Captain of the Army
I've Said My Last Farewell
Those Songs My Mother Used to Sing
The Bull-Frog and the Coon
Poker Love
The Good Old U.S.A.
So Long Mary
The Tale of a Stroll
Lazy Moon

Sheet 2
Fishing
I Would Like to Marry You
As We Swing, Sweetheart
Drummer Song
Dear Old Johnstown
When I Rode on the Choo Choo Cars
I Fell in Love With Polly
Hey! Mister Joshua
Hiram Green, Good-Bye
It Makes Me Think of Home, Sweet, Home

Waters, Grace Brown

Griffin Opera House notebook

  • CA ON00156 2014-67
  • Item
  • 1913-1914

Notebook recording shows at the Griffin Opera House held on dates between August 1913 and April 1914.

Griffin Opera House

Hastings County Museum Official Opening 1961

File contains letters regarding the official opening of the Hastings County Museum in 1961, several invitations to the opening, and a newspaper article discussing the opening. There are two booklets listing artists in Hasting and Prince Edward County, a handout from the Hastings County Museum with directions to Glanmore House, and a poster from 1975 promoting a talk by Mary Beacock Fryer (author of Loyalist Spy). There is also an itinerary from 1961 for a trip to Upper Canada Village. There is also a pamphlet about Glanmore House.

Histories of the Belleville Art Association

  • CA ON00156 2023-105
  • Fonds
  • 2023
  1. Series of PDF files summarizing activities of the Belleville Art Association in the following years:

    1. 1958-1979
    2. 1980-1999
    3. 2000-2009
    4. 2010-2015
    5. 2016-2018
    6. 2019-2023
    7. Appendix: PDF of 49 images of the Gallery pages of the Intelligencer newspaper, 2003-2023
  2. Paper and audio-visual files:

    1. BAA: Historical Facts
    2. Newspaper clippings, 1967-1979
    3. Newspaper clippings, 1980-1989
    4. Newspaper clippings, 1990-1999
    5. Newspaper clippings, 2000-2009
    6. Newspaper clippings, 2010-2019
    7. "Artists Choice" selection of 35mm slides and written commentary from local visual artists, produced by the Hastings County Board of Education, 1988
    8. DVD version of "Artists Choice", produced in 2008

Morrow, Karen

Hobbies 1963-5

File contains newspaper clipping about various Belleville residents and their hobbies/collections: Percy Gelsthorpe builds steam engine train models, Charles Morton took up whittling during retirement, and Wayne Hustins has a collection showing the rise and fall of the Nazis Empire.

Jerry Stapley prints depicting Ontario libraries

  • CA ON00156 2021-018
  • Series
  • 1976

Eighteen mounted prints of pen-and-ink drawings of libraries in Eastern Ontario:

  1. Belleville (Corby) Public Library
  2. Campbellford Public Library
  3. Cobourg Public Library
  4. Deseronto Public Library
  5. Grafton Branch - Northumberland Union Public Library
  6. Kingston Public Library
  7. Lindsay Public Library
  8. Napanee Branch - Lennox and Addington County Public Library
  9. Newburgh Branch - Lennox and Addington County Public Library
  10. Norwood Public Library
  11. Margaret Breden Memorial - Odessa Branch - Lennox and Addington County Public Library
  12. Peterborough Public Library
  13. Picton Public Library
  14. Port Hope Public Library
  15. Stirling Public Library
  16. Sydenham Branch - Frontenac County Public Library
  17. Warkworth Branch - Percy Township Public Library
  18. Wellington Public Library

Stapley, Jerry

Jessie Cunningham collection

  • CA ON00156 2022-062
  • Collection
  • 1923-1938

Collection of items formerly in the possession of Jessie Cunningham:

  1. Diary of John Wesley Roblin of Picton for the year 1923, with observations on the weather and his daily activities
  2. Paintings and drawings created by Jessie Cunningham in art classes, 1932-1934
  3. Silver Jubilee souvenir booklet, 1935
  4. Scrapbook of newspaper clippings compiled by Jessie Cunningham relating to global news events, 1936-1938

Cunningham, Janet 'Jessie'

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