Slides made by Rudolf Donninger during his time in Belleville, Ontario, working at Northern Electric. They include photographs of buildings in Belleville, rural scenes, cars, a parade and the Belleville Fair in 1970, winter scenes, Ottawa and Kingston views, and aircraft at the Trenton Air Show.
Collection includes: 1) File of copies of newspaper articles on Frank Morse Robb and copy of the patent for his electronic wave organ. Also includes research notes on the William Finkle Machine business at 393 Sidney Street in Belleville (Bristol Aircraft Products during the Second World War) and an article from 'Remember When' on the Argue family home at 338 Charles Street. 2) File of research notes on Belleville buildings constructed by City Hall builder John Forin, c.1988-1898 3) Copy of paper by Gerry Boyce on 'Conflict and Cooperation: The Cemeteries of Belleville, Ontario', 2003 4) Copy of article by Peter Meehan 'The East Hastings By-Election of 1936 and the Ontario Separate School Tax Question', published in 'Historical Studies' 68, 2002 5) Electronic files of research notes on buildings in east Belleville 6) Electronic files of research notes on buildings in west Belleville
Research notes on architectural styles and photographic slides of Belleville homes and other buildings prepared for a Hastings County Board of Education project and proposed video by Catherine Milne, Instructional Media Developer of the Hastings County Board of Education's Instructional Media Centre and Bill Piton, a teacher.
A series of architectural drawings for the Ontario Intelligencer Limited and C. J. B. Q. Radio Station; From July-August 1963, plot, floor and interior plans. From April 1964, floor, elevations, walls, windows, stairs, and entrance plans. From 1977, foundations and alteration plans.
Two photographs taken on October 15th, 1992: 1) Front of the former movie theatre on south end of Front Street, Belleville 2) Front windows of Dinkel's Restaurant, Bridge Street East, Belleville
Two photographs of the interior of Marilyn Adam's home in Prince Edward County, taken in June 1989: 3) Parlour 4) Buffet and corner cupboard
5) One photograph of Stirling station (undated, c.1990)
10 black and white photographs of buildings on John, North Front, Front and South Front Streets in Belleville, 1979-1980
51 photographs of churches and schoolhouses in various locations, 1979-2006, including: Victoria Avenue Baptist Church; Fuller Public School; Moneymore Anglican Church; Actinolite United Church; Actinolite school; St. John's United Church, Tweed; Madoc Anglican Church; St. Andrew's Church, Tweed; St. Paul's Anglican, Roslin; St. Edmunds Parish Hall; the Blue Church, Cooper; former church, Holloway Heights; Flinton Anglican Church; St. Matthew Anglican Church, Marlbank; Queensborough Anglican Church; Bonarlaw Anglican Church; Millbridge Church; Millbridge Public School; St. Carthagh's Catholic Church, Tweed; Potter Settlement School
66 colour photographs and three 35mm slides of various historic buildings in Hastings County, 1980-2006. These include the train station at Madoc; O'Hara Mill; houses in Belleville; properties in Springbrook and Moira. .
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.
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]
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]
CD-ROM contains 113 PDF files created by scanning City of Belleville budgets from 1974 to 2009.
Records contain:
9 City of Belleville annual reports, 1974-1994
34 City of Belleville budgets, 1977-2009
16 City of Belleville Capital Works budgets, 1974-1996
31 City of Belleville financial statements, 1978-2008
5 City of Belleville Parks and Recreation budgets, 1989-1995
1 City of Belleville Parks-Harbour budget, 1987
3 City of Belleville Recreation - Arena Committee budgets, 1978-1980 *4 City of Belleville Recreation Services Committee budgets, 1984-1988
Photographs taken during the construction of the Community Archives space inside the Belleville Public Library building. Include photographs of the former location of the Community Archives at 154 Cannifton Road, Cannifton, and the physical move of archival materials and shelving from the old building to the new facility.
Community Archives of Belleville and Hastings County
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.