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Photograph of Al Kelleher in a parade on Front Street in Belleville, Ontario, dressed as a town crier. Scalliwag Toys at 215 Front Street is visible in the background.

Aerial photograph taken by Ralph Lawlor in the 1980s, showing Deseronto, Foresters’ Island, the Bay of Quinte and the Skyway Bridge, Ontario.

Items include reproduction photographs of nine Belleville Fire Chiefs: William J. Brown (1915-1929), William Lynch (1929-1948), Gerald Vance (1948-1965), Thomas E. Poste (1965-1969), Leo Culhane (1969-1977), Fred Hosking (1977-1985), Raymond Reid (1985), Gordon Gazley (1986-2008), Rhéaume Chaput (2008-2013); print of a hand pump, 1925; typescript information about automatic sprinkler systems, c.1960; photograph of St. Thomas's Church, Belleville, in flames, 1975.

Aerial view of the waterfront east of the Moira River in Belleville, Ontario, showing the harbour area.

Various plans of streets in Belleville and Thurlow Township.

The Wanamaker fonds consists of textual records and graphic materials of genealogical histories of various families. The fonds also contains records, brochures, pamphlets, publications, books, and other textual records from towns and cities throughout Ontario, predominantly from the Quinte Area and Hastings County.

• Family Photographs of the Sayers family, Ralph Wanamaker's family, the Hodgen family, of Loral Wanamaker's family, Parliament family, Van Cott family, Post family, as well as loose photographs of the Parliament family, the McTaggart family, various snapshots and negatives of scenery and views, as well as 2 boxes of slides
• 1 box of Books and Binders with genealogical records, as well various records of various towns in Ontario ca. 1816 - 1957
• Genealogical notes, histories, birth records, death records, pages from family Bibles, receipts, and other textual records for over 40 individual families
• Genealogical charts, and ancestral charts
• Genealogical correspondences
  *Newspapers, and News clippings from Hastings County, Hastings County Museum, Historical Society, Lennox and Addington, Prince Edward County, Trenton, Tyendinaga, and United Empire Loyalists
• Legal documents, seals and original deeds, and land records ca. 1803 - 1848
• Genealogy forms, research materials, reference materials
• Various artworks and postcards (of Hastings County, the Quinte Region, the British Military and Navy, the Belleville Art Association, and travel)
• Quinte region, Belleville, Trenton, and Prince Edward County miscellaneous publications, newspaper clippings, brochures, pamphlets, notes, directories, histories, records, and tourism guides and publications
• Ontario, New York , and Canada pamphlets, magazines, calendars, and an Ontario Liquor License Act, 1891
• Land Abstracts for Prince Edward County
• Maps and plans: 1778-1779 Blue Print Surveys from General Washington, New York Historical Society; 1784 Ontario (printed by Ministry of Natural Resources), 1984; 1860-1861 Hastings County, 1860-1861 from the Hastings County Directory; 1928 Lloyd's Map of Hastings County; c. 1930 Belleville Post Office Carrier Route #8, North Front and North Park Streets
• Scrapbooks ca. 1958-1972
• Miscellaneous Publications (almanacs, newspaper clippings, miscellaneous pins belonging to Loral Wanamaker, blue print surveys)

Genealogical family research names:

• Allison
• Alyea
• Babcock, John
• Bailey
• Belnap
• Benson
• Blair/Snider/Mumby/Spenser
• Brickman, Lewis
• Brighton
• Canniff
• Clapp
• Cole
• Cunningham
  *Davis
• Embury
• Finkle
• Fraser
• Gallagher
• Gerow
• Giraud/Gero-Gerow
• Hodgens
• Johnson
• Loveless, Absolam
• McTaggart
• Meyers, John W.
• Mitchell, Alfred
• Orser
• Parliament
• Peck
• Redner
• Roblin
• Scott
• Spencer
• Sprung
• Van Cott, John
• Vander Woort
• Waite (see also Sprung and Putnam)
• Wallbridge
• Wanamaker
• Wanamaker, Judge George Washington
• Wanamaker
• Weese
• Whitney
• Williams and Schermerhorn
• Yarrow

Collection comprises:
1) Photograph of Frank LaBrash in military uniform, c.1917
2) Military discharge certificate of Frank LaBrash from the Forestry Depot of the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force, 9 May 1918
3) Two photographs of classes at S.S. 20 [Bayview Public School], Thurlow Township, c.1950
4) Grade 3 and 4 school reports for Leonard LaBrash, 1951 and 1952
5) Belleville Bulls Booster membership card for Len LaBrash, 1983-1984
6) Three photographs of Leonard LaBrash, taken at school (one by Henry Klaver), c.1952-1955

Membership award presented to the Deseronto Lions Club by Lions International "In Recognition of Outstanding Support of the Founders Growth Program".

File of photographs taken during the restoration of 45 South Front Street, Belleville, Ontario.

1) ‘Souvenir and Programme’ of the 1929 Loyalist celebrations in Deseronto
2) ‘Deseronto is 100 Years Old this Year’ article from the Napanee Beaver, c. May 1971 (mentions Rathbun head office building as being owned by Redi-Heat appliance manufacturers, later by Dravo and "now empty")
3) ‘Deserontonian of the week’ newspaper article from the Napanee Beaver about Gerald and Kay Lott, owners of a Deseronto jewelry store from 1950-1982 (the approximate date of the article).

Nineteen photographs of the Norris Whitney bridge between Belleville and Rossmore, Ontario, under construction. Three were taken from the air when Ross Cummings was flying a Cessna 150 over the bridge.

Photographs:
1) Bev and Vern Boomhour on their wedding day, 28 July 1956
2-10) Quinte Classic boat races in Deseronto in 1980
11) Dignitaries at the entrance to Deseronto Town Hall for the Terry Fox Run in 1982

Description of the coat of arms granted to the City of Belleville in 1982.

Collection of materials relating to Elias Wright life in Tweed, Ontario:

1. Photograph of children of Victoria School, Tweed, with list of names, 1920
2. Postcard of the Foster's Dairy horse and wagon on their last trip, 28 April 1975
3. Newspaper clippings relating to Tweed Village Council, 1976-1982
4. Photographs of Elias Wright and other officials of Tweed Village Council, 1978-1982
5. Memories of Tweed High School by Blenus Wright (son of Elias), 1983

The Quinte Scanner was a newspaper published in Deseronto, Ontario, between 1968 and 1981.

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.

Photocopies and scans of newspaper articles and photographs relating to the Dawson and Burley families.
1) Photocopy of Quinte Scanner article about Hudson’s Mill. December 18, 1981
2) Photocopy of photograph of front of Deseronto House Hotel, with Deseronto Bus Line coach and horses.
3) Photocopy of photos of the old Deseronto to Prince Edward County ferry, being made into a houseboat (Reg Dawson did this)
4) Photocopy of article in The Intelligencer about the ferry from October 30, 1974. Mentions Reg Dawson.
5) Photocopy of photos of the ferry in service. Undated.

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

Sixteen colour photographs of ice and flooding along the Moira river in Belleville, Ontario.

Notes on the organization of the map collection of the Hastings County Historical Society, written by Gerry Boyce in September 1981. Includes a copy of the classification schemes used by the National Map Collection, dated 1969 and 1973.