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Newspaper clipping taken from page 4 of the Pittsburgh Daily Post, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania published on 24 February 1890, concerning the manufacture of wood gas from sawdust in Deseronto, Ontario.

Certificate for one share of $100 of the capital stock of the Springer Lock Manufacturing Company Limited, issued to C. A. Campbell on 24 November 1915. Signed by W. C. Springer, Managing Director, A. J. Bird, Secretary-Treasurer, and Mackenzie Bowell, President.

Photographs of lumber camps and First World War infantry units in the Marmora area of Hastings County, Ontario.

Photograph of the Canada Cement Company Plant Number Five at Point Anne.

Staff of Shannonville Canning Ltd., Shannonville, Ontario, in September 1938.

Names supplied:

Back row: Nellie Howard, Maggie Brant, Maggie Maracle, Mae Hill, Ethel Bardy, Georgina Rupert, Edna Maracle, Beatarice Brant, John Weese, ?, Mac FitzGerald, Lena FitzGerald, Edna Fuller, Harold Burtt, Mavis John, ?, Beatrice Smart, ?, Blanche Hill, Ivan Hill, Cora Maracle, Harold Elmy, Mr. Rightmyer, Tommy Howard and Percy "Diner" Howard

Second row: Marjorie FitzGerald, Dorsey Brant, Josie FitzGerald, Ethel John, Lydia Marion, Winnifred Maracle, Julia Maracle, Lydia Maracle, Kathleen Louis, Sadie Maracle, Gladys Brant, Eva Burtt, Anita Goodfellow, Stella Breadman, ?, Mrs Burtt, Winnie Howard and Marjorie Brant

Third row: Vincent Bardy, Madeline Spencer, ?, Pearl Brant, Leola Brant, Evelyn Noye, Muriel Hill, Alice Dow, Marjorie Elmy, Marion Hill, Reta Conley, Edna McCarthy, Helena Sager, Maggie Hill, Bertha Reed, Flossie ?, and Helen Fuller

Front row: Austin Fuller, Ross Brant, Clifford Hill, Eugene Maracle, Lorne Maracle, Harry Uens, ?, William Hill, ?, Carmon Spencer, Laural Burtt, Gerald Louis, Blake Cook and Roy Sager

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.

Photograph of staff at Plant Number 5 of the Canada Cement Company Limited, Point Anne, Ontario.

Names provided by Jackie Gilbert (formerly Hull):
Back row: Peter Stalkovistch; Bud Doxtator; ?; Mr. Roluf; Franklin Bennett; Phil Loft; Mr. Basisty?; Walter MacDonald; Joe ?; Earl Wilson?; Mr. Moslo Sr; Leonard MacDonald; Reg File; Mike Basisty?; Charles Dedore; W. Akey; Joe Sutherby; ?; ?; Bill Insley; Cummings?; Murney Carter; ?; Mr Logue; ?; ?; ?; ?; ?; ?; ?; John Maher; ?; ?; ?
Second row: Daly Cummings; Sedore ?; ?; ?; Ned Campbell; Johnnie Bennett; Sam Belack; Mr. Pitt; Tommy Bennett; Raymond Bailey; Peewee; Mr. Gurnick; Mr. Horewood; Mr. Conly; Bert Lloyd; Mr. Rosebush; Bill Gray; ?; Mr. Deforge; ?; Art Whitehead; ?; ?; ?; Tom Bowler; Sonny Legate; Stan Luffman; Chester Shepherd; ?; Mr. Bonokowski; ?; ?; Dell McConnell; Mac McKay
Third row; Jimmy Sero; ?; Chuck Lloyd; Josh Maracle; Bill Hull; Maurice Bradshaw; ?; George King; Percy Akey; Hep Payne; Ralph Payne; Dorothy King; Mr. Gaulin; Mr. Hamilton; ?; J. H. Legate; George Armstrong; Pete Hart; Herb Scholar?; Fred Clark; Mr. Brown?; John McConnell; ?; Mr. Jenkins; Joseph Huck; ?; Elijah Brent; ?; Walter Hull
Front row: Peter Moslo; Earl Deforge; Jack Insley; Mike Yosepanko; Murney Green, jr; Jack Whitehead; Murney Green, sr; Dorothy Goodfellow; Dorothy Bennett; Evenlyn Loft; ?; Marion Deforge; Euretta Juby; Gertrude Payne; Lena Hull; Irene Derushie; Mary McTurney; Madeline Bennett; Mrs Bailey?; Mrs. Gurnick; Mrs. ?; Milton Bowers; Bill Juby; ?; ?; ?; John Zurgee

Newspaper clippings and photographs relating to the Marston mica mine in Tweed, Ontario.

Two photographs:

1. Canada Cement Co. Limited Plant No. 5 Belleville, Ont. June 1954
2. Bowling Banquet at Club Canara, Canada Cement, c.1955

Photograph of staff of H. Corby Distilleries Limited, Corbyville, Ontario. The photograph was taken outside the distillery, with two of the company's trucks in the background.

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]
• Parking Lots 1951 [Includes negative 2019-055-089]
• 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]
• 44 K.V. Substation Installation, 1954 [6 negatives]
• 1953 Fordson Tractor & Attachments [4 prints, negatives 2019-055-096 to 2019-055-103]
• Taken to Demonstrate Inefficient Material Handling [6 prints, 4 negatives]
• Warehouse 1954 [4 prints, 14 negatives including 2019-055-104 to 2019-055-106]
• Excavating for the 1951 Extension [16 prints, 3 negatives]

Pen-and-ink drawing of the former Bakelite plant in Belleville.

Photocopy of an article by Stella-Marie Brown, a student at Napanee Secondary School, on the history of the Marlbank Cement Plant, written for an essay contest sponsored by the Lennox and Addington Historical Society and published in The Tweed News on 23 August 1978.