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Three guide books:
1) 'Over the Hills of Hastings', 1923, including a sheet with two maps of Hastings County
2) Belleville Ontario industrial investment guide, 1983 [2 copies]
3) 'Bay of Quinte Region Guide Book', 1986

Materials produced by the Stirling Historical Society, including:

• Four editions of 'The Heritage Clarion', Volume 1 numbers 1, 3, and 4, Volume 2 number 2
• Partial list of artifact donations, 1993
• Map and text for walking tour of Stirling, 1993
• Photocopy of a register of members of Stirling Public Library, 1903
• Typescript 'brief history of the Stirling Public Library', c.1975
• Update on the history of the library to 1989
• List of contributors to the purchase of the site for the Stirling Public Library, 1914
• Photocopy of a flyer promoting the Stirling Public Library, 1910
• Reproduction of article about the opening of Stirling Public Library, 1903
• Hand-written notes on aspects of Stirling history, c.1990

'Baby's Heath and Record' book, 1929, with advice for parents, published by Merton Corporation Ltd. of Winnipeg. Details have been completed for baby Margaret Mary Benn, born in Belleville in 1931.

Two items:
1) Hand-written poem about becoming a circus ringmaster entitled 'A Coming Barnam'
2) Typescript description of the Mead Johnson factory and its products, including Pablum baby food

Various items:

• 'Someone's in the Kitchen with Dinah!' stories collected and edited by Peter Wilson, published by the Trent Port Historical Society, 1992
• Great Canadian Railway Stories, Volume One, June 1993
• Great Canadian Railway Stories, Volume Two, Fall 1993
• Great Canadian Railway Stories, Volume Three, Winter/Spring 1994
• Great Canadian Railway Stories, Volume Four, 1994
• Great Canadian Railway Stories, Volume Five, 1996
• Great Canadian Railway Calendar, 1995

Various items related to Sidney Township, Hastings County, Ontario:

• Notes on the history of Sidney Baptist Church, 1979
• Sidney Township Bicentennial Newsletter, April 1990
• Handout with map for Architectural Conservancy of Ontario (Quinte Branch) bus tour of Sidney Township, 16 September 1990
• List of Sidney Township street names and locations and 'SHARC's thoughts on the naming of future Sidney streets', with list of pioneer families and locations, c.1990

Pages taken from 'Everybody's Magazine' and 'Harper's Magazine' with advertisements for cars and tires. A few photocopies of 1960s car advertisements from Stirling Motor Sales, Ontario.

Notes on the following:

• The population of Stirling, c.1976
• History of Eldorado United Church, 1999
• 'Stirling, the naming of a village' by Lewis Zandbergen, c.2000

File of printed items, including:

• International Plowing Match brochure, 1986
• Flyer on the coat of arms of Loyalis College, 1992
• Walking tour guides for Tweed, Campbellford, and Stirling, c.2000
• Calendar with aerial photographs 'From the Skies of Quinte', 2004
• Report 'Proposal for a Municipal Archives' submitted to the City of Belleville by the Hastings County Historical Society, 2004 (water damaged)

Educational examination booklets and questions for high school students in various areas.

1) Reproduction of a photograph of an unidentified family group outside a large brick house (identified on reverse as possibly Elijah Ketchson's home in Sidney Township), c.1890
2) Photograph of a group of twelve people, taken by W. S. Clarke, c.1910
3) Photograph of the 'Medicine, 1915 Association Football Team', winners of the MacClement Cup, 1915
Members of the team: C. R. Donevan; D. M. Livingstore; S. H. Martin; J. H. Box; F. W. Diamond; N. M. Grace; E. F. G. Ward; G. B. Burwell; H. C. Hagyard; G. T. G. Boyce; J. Carmichael; W. J. B. Brown; W. R. Stackhouse; G. A. Henry (President); O. Vanluven (Manager); W. V. Edwards
4) Group photograph taken at 'E.O.D.I.A. Field Day June 25, 24 at K.A.S. Kemptville', 1924
5) Reproductions of a photograph of staff and students of Stirling High School, 1931
6) Mounted pen-and-ink print of the old post office in Trenton, Ontario, c.1970

Cecil Everett Brown was born in Frankford, Ontario on 3 May 1895. One photograph is of Private Brown standing with his rifle. One photograph mugshot style photo of Brown in uniform. One document, typed with a brief biographical statement on Private Brown. Commemorative document announcing the death and his service for king and country.

1) Photograph of an unidentified family group sitting at the side entrance of a house, 1891
2) Photograph looking south on Front Street in Belleville, Ontario, with the Belle Theatre (347 Front Street) on the left of the image, 1959

Three views published by Underwood & Underwood:
1) 'The Last Drop - a scene of the Battlefield at Dordrecth, South Africa, Dec. 30th', 1900
2) 'The great floating City - where 400,000 dwell in Boat-houses - at Canton, China, 1900
3) 'Dr. Leopold Kann, the Arctic Explorer, in his winter quarters, Ellesmere Land', 1902

One view published by Strohmeyer & Whyman of New York:
4) 'Arrival of a Chinese Fishing Boat, Hong Kong, China', 1906

Generally unidentified nineteenth century portrait photographs, 1 of which is a tintype. The two photographs which are identified are of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Stanley,_16th_Earl_of_Derby">Lord Derby</a> and the Duke of Edinburgh (Prince Alfred, 1844-1900).

Correspondence and invoices relating to S.S. 5 in Thurlow (Hillcrest School), during H. V. Faulkner's time as Secretary-Treasurer of the Thurlow Township School Board, when the school was being extended. Includes receipts and invoices from The James Texts Limited for school supplies and invoices from Kelly & Cracknell Plumbing and Heating and Ross Greenly, General Contractor.

Photographs and text of a speech by Lewis Zandbergen on plans for the restoration of Stirling Station. The file includes three photographs of a derailment at the station in around the 1920s.

Photograph album with 36 unidentified nineteenth century portrait photographs, 19 of which are tintypes.