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File contains a list of Postmasters names and dates of service for: Shannonville, Deseronto, Melrose, Lonsdale, Albert, Naphan, Marysville, Read, Kingsford, Blessington and Halston Post Offices.

Four items:

1. Apprenticeship indentures signed by George Skinner Tickell, his mother, Eliza Talley Tickell and Edward Winter, cabinet maker, carpenter, joiner and builder of Tavistock, Devon, England
2. Letter of appreciation from George S. Tickell's Front Street store employees, with two prints of scenes of Devon printed by Rock & Co of London: Vixen Toor, Dartmoor and Fish House on the Dart near Totnes

File contains an 1865 printing bill from the Intelligencer to Mackenzie Bowell.

File contains a Deed of Land Sale between Agnes Fitzgibbon of Toronto and Eliza Jones of lots one and two on Bridge Street in Belleville, Ontario.

File contains an Almanac as well as various business adverts.

File contains a printed promotional blotter for the International Carriage Co., Brighton.

File contains a printed booklet entitled A. H. Britnell's Mechanical Method of Manufacturing Cheese. Includes illustrations.

File contains original documents from 1891 pertaining to the Belleville Canning Factory.

File contains letter to the merchants and manufacturers of Belleville, from the City Committee about the Bay of Quinte Union Exhibition to be held on September 27th, 28th, and 29th, 1892. Part of the Ponton papers.

File contains invoices for St. Charles & Pringle Belleville business ca. 1894 and a news clipping about Alderman James St. Charles receiving the contract for painting and repairing the wagons of the Pullman & Hamilton Show and building five new ones, at a cost of $1,200.

File contains 1 original menu c. 1910 for Dickens Tea Room - Ed. F. Dickens & Son.

Two postcards:

1. Trenton High School (duplicate of 2017-27-19 https://www.flickr.com/photos/cabhc/38551591382/ )
2. H. C. Pitcher & Son buildings on Pitchers Road, Frankford, Ontario (online at https://www.flickr.com/photos/cabhc/52962542235/ )

File contains a typescript transcript of a presidential address by William Nisbet Ponton, President of the Ontario Associated Board of Trades, 24 February 1914, concerning economic indicators, development and investment in Ontario.

File contains 9 advertisement cards for various companies and products, including:

1. The Schuster Co. Limited, Belleville
2. Davison & Davison, 31 Bridge Street, Belleville
3. Eastman's Flash Sheets from Kodak
4. Ames Holden Tire & Rubber Co., Limited, Kitchener
5. Rawleigh's Good Health Products from Harry L. Spafford, 35 Moira St. W., Belleville
6. Book on Gasoline Engines, Their Operation, Use and Care by Hyatt Verrill
7. Text books to help the engineer
8. 1925 calendar from Ma Cherie toilet preparations
9. The Wabasso Cotton Company Limited, Three Rivers, 1926

Lantern slides used for teaching agriculture at Belleville Collegiate Institute and Vocational School, Belleville, Ontario, in the 1920s.

These slides were distributed by Scott & Van Altena of 6 East 39th St., New York, for the Educational Department of the De Laval Separator Company.

Five photographs:
1) Interior of J. J. Haines shoe store at 230 Front Street in Belleville, c.1920
2-5) Photo-postcards of flooding on Bridge, Coleman and Front Streets in Belleville, 1936

File contains 2 newspaper clippings about Deacon Shirt Co. - a 1934 article advertising the local Belleville business, and a 1968 article on Mrs. Elizabeth McEvoy, long time employee of Deacon Shirt Co. Being honored.

File contains the history of Ivanhoe, including the post office, religion, and early settlers.

File contains a newspaper clip on the establishment of the new W.T. Hawkins Cheezie factory, published 23 January 1956.

File contains a typescript item on “Deseronto and the Rathbun Company” written by T. Dane Martin and edited by Gerry Boyce. Also a copy of the final printed version.