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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

Photographs from the Grimson family. The collection contains images of families, couples, and individuals outdoors and in studio settings.

Photograph of 49 young women in white skirts and shirts, with dark scarves, sitting on rugs in a garden. Possibly students of St. Agnes School, Belleville, Ontario.

Collection comprises:

• album with 128 photographs of family scenes taken by Hannah Harrison of 64 Emily Street, Belleville, Ontario
• mounted photograph of the house at 64 Emily Street, c.1900
• photograph of six young women in naval costumes (Hannah Harrison bottom right), c. 1910
• Methodist Church annual ticket for 1902-1903 in the name of Hannah Harrison
• Canadian National Railways passes for David Harrison, blacksmith, 1935-1942
• 'Happy Birthday Sweetheart' card addressed to Hannah Harrison, 1939
• Wharf Street Debating Club membership card in the name of D. Harrison, 1941
• photographs of Hannah Harrison holding a baby, c.1970.

Two negative-holders with annotations by Harold McMurrich Rathbun for negatives he took between 1907 and 1914, with loose negatives from 1920-1940. Most of the photographs were taken in and around Deseronto, Ontario, but they also include photographs taken on a journey by rail to Alberta in 1907.

Materials relating to the Hastings County Junior Farmers, including:

1. Seven "Hasco Fain" yearbook publications: 1959 (2 editions), 1960, 1961, 1962-1963, 1964-1965, 1985 (60th anniversary edition)
2. Three cloth patches, one with text "Thurlow Junior Farmer" and two with "1956 Hastings Champions Junior Farmer Girls"
3. Four photographs: three of 1955 Junior Farmers members, including: Ross Bateman, Getha Sherry, Kay Summers, Ross Moorcroft, Bob Mallory, Harvey Homan, Eva Martin, Helen Harry, Jean Frost, Ralph Swan, Grant Richardson, Carl Reid, Marlene Moorcroft. Also a photograph of people dancing at the 1955 Hastings Formal Ball.
4. Invitation to At Home and Dance at Tobe's County Gardens to the Top Hats Orchestra, 1 December 1950
5. Order of service for church service at Foxboro United Church, 25 May 1957
6. Announcement for Mixed Curling Bonspiel, 18 November 1978
7. File of correspondence and programs for 60th anniversary celebrations, 1985
8. Seven "Hastings Happenings" newsletters, June 1986- April 1987
9. File of correspondence concerning the Hastings County International Plowing Match, 1986
10. File of correspondence concerning the Hastings County Dairy Princess Competition, 1986
11. "Plant a Seed for Need Junior Farmers 87" sign with text "We supported the Hastings County Junior Farmers effort to grow garden produce for the Gleaners Food Bank", 1987

A group of glass negatives associated with Herbert 'Burt' Rathbun (1861-1897) and his family.

Album of photographs compiled by a member of the Hobbs family. Teddie Hobbs appears in one of the photographs and there is also a photograph of the grave of J. E. Hobbs. The majority of photographs are of the First World War Royal Flying Corps training camps in North America: Camps Borden and Mohawk in Ontario and Camp Taliaferro in Texas.

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.

Three images of the sun taken during the eclipse of 8 April 2024 and time-lapse video of solar totality period over Belleville.

Seventeen digital photographs of people viewing the solar eclipse at Meyers' Pier in Belleville and six photographs of artists taking part in the Quinte Arts Council "Plain Air in the Path of Totality" event at the pier.

Found in file labelled “Old Papers Found 77 Brant Street, Deseronto, 1997”
Papers, including:

1. Directory listing for a canteen in Deseronto for Miss A. Mungo, 1931;
2. Chattel mortgage for Mrs Alice Freeman, 785 Princess Street, Kingston, 1949;
3. Calendar of movies playing at the Bayview [Naylor's] Theatre, Deseronto, Ontario, during April [1952]. Includes advertisements for Ernie Luck's Plumbing & Heating, Burkitt's Groceteria, Moody's Men's Wear, Gerald Lott's Jewellery, and Rosebay Dairy. Movies include Hollywood Story, Illegal Entry, Texas Rangers, That's My Boy, Wing and a Prayer, Royal Wedding, Father's Little Dividend, The Mating Season, Fury of the Congo, The Great Caruso, Bird of Paradise, Tall in the Saddle and Wabash Avenue.
4. Letter from Avis [Mungo?] on the S.S. Ralph Budd, heading for Fort William and Port Arthur [Thunder Bay], written October 29, 1955 (and envelope addressed to Mr Marshall Claus, 44 Johnston Street, Kingston, Ontario);
5. Sheet of recipes for date bread, raisin rolls and basic muffins (undated);
6. Card for Art Nelson, Parkdale wines, Toronto (undated)
7. List of prices for various named items (including ‘inca tie tack’).

Collection of materials comprising:

1. Photograph of Intelligencer press room, 1903
2. Framed and mounted front page of the Daily Ontario for 28 April 1924 (with Gwen Lazier story)
3. Belleville Diesel Electric O.H.A. Senior Hockey Club programme, 1949-1950 (donated by Harm Bisschop)
4. Framed aerial photograph of Belleville by Richard Lumbers, June 1965
5. Printing proof for front page of The Intelligencer of 14 June 1977
6. Quinte Air Show calendar, 2017

Photographs of scenes in and around Belleville, Ontario, including a circus parade, Lincoln Beachey's aircraft, the talc mine at Madoc and military groups.

File of correspondence, newspaper clippings, and photographs relating to the relocation of the Carman fountain from Glanmore National Historic Site to the Moodie cottage in Belleville, Ontario, in 1997, including notes on the history of the fountain. The fountain was at the Moodie cottage from 1997 to October 2019, when the City of Belleville removed the fountain into storage. It was located at Glanmore from 1984 to 1997 and was at Franklin Foley's ironworks from the late 1960s to 1984. It was moved to Fireman's Park at Dundas and Front Street in 1961. It was originally located at the Carman property at Dundas and Bleecker, which was built in 1876.

Negatives of photographs taken by John Fairbairn Anderson. They include images of dams, electricity generating plants, the Beal family cottage on Stoney Lake and photographs of places Anderson visited, including Orillia, Los Angeles, Peterborough, Young's Point, Sulphide, Port Hope, Muskegon (Michigan), Chicago and Trenton (Ontario).

Many of the negatives are associated with an index card, on which Anderson wrote the number of the negative, the subject of the photograph and the date it was taken. There were also a number of negatives with no associated card.

Collection principally comprises research notes, newspaper clippings, promotional publications and postcards relating to the history of the town of Deseronto, Ontario. It also includes a file of materials relating to a voyage on the Empress of Scotland ship in 1956.

1. Deseronto postcards and photographs, 1900-1920
2. Notes and ephemera relating to Kay Allin's voyage on the Empress of Scotland, July 1956
3. Publication Kente Mission, 1668-1680, 1968
4. Notes by Kay Allin on the history of Deseronto, c.1980-1990
5. Notes by Kay Allin on the history of the Presbyterian Church of the Redeemer in Deseronto, c.1980-1990
6. File of newspaper clipping relating to Deseronto, 1967-1980
7. Scrapbook of newspaper clippings relating to the Rathbun family, 1972-1980
8. Scrapbook of newspaper clippings relating to Deseronto, 1978-1990
9. Reproduction of Deseronto High School 'Ballyhoo' publication, May 1928
10. Deseronto flyers and publications, including 1978 program for the North American Outboard Championships, 1967-1989
11. Publications relating to centennial celebrations in Deseronto, 1971 and 1989

1. 14 photographs of members of the Ketcheson and McAllen families, 1908-1947
2. 8 issues of the Quinte West Sports Wall of Fame Commemorative Program, 2009-2016

Souvenir items relating to The Kilties band:

1. Souvenir Route Book of The Kilties' world tour, 1908-1910
2. Souvenir Album of songs and marches, c.1910
3. Famous Bands of the British Empire by J. P. Hull, London, 1926
4. Poster published in Chicago, reading "Hoot Mon! The Kilties are coming, Canada's greatest Concert Band all appearing in full kilted regimentals introducing all their special features that have made them famous, the band that toured the world", c.1912
5. 21 cigarette cards featuring "Wee Jamie" Clark, Pipe Major of The Kilties Band, c.1910
6. Photograph of The Kilties beside a train car bearing their name, c.1910
7. Photograph of ten members of The Kilties, c.1910
8. Photograph of Murdoch J. Macdonald, conductor of The Kilities, c.1910