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Marriage certificate of Richard White and Alma Beer, married in Corbyville, Ontario on 25 December 1901 (fragile). With family tree showing the ancestors of William Ross White (grandson of Richard White and Alma Beer).

File contains a diagram of Lot 19 Con. I, Twp of Madoc, Co. Hastings. Shows plots and names of owners. Names include Griffin, Broad, Morrison, Ferguson, and Hobson.

Two photographs of classes at the Ontario Business college. The 1900 photograph shows students from New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, the 1913 photo shows students in the shorthand department.

File contains a copy of a plan of the Trenton Airfield and lands taken by expropriation by the Department of National Defence, Air Services Branch, 1949.

Album contains 317 photographs documenting the journey of the Kilties band around the world. The group visited Hawaii, Fiji, Australia, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, India, Myanmar, Egypt, Italy, Sicily, France, Gibraltar, Scotland and England to perform concerts. The photograph document the tourist activities the party took part in on their trip.

• Business card for Deseronto House Hotel
• Postcards of Deseronto: Post Office; Bank of Montreal; hockey team of 1909; 'Greetings from Deseronto'
• Postcard showing a 22 April 1918 aircraft crash into a building in Oshawa
  Newspapers:
• Napanee Post-Express for 27 May 1954 and 22 November 1956
• Deseronto Special Centennial Edition, 1967
• Napanee Beaver, 25 November 1970

File contains a copy of a sketch of town lots in Thurlow by Joseph Canniff in 1849. Also present are several photocopied survey maps by lot of Thurlow Township, ca. 1878.

Account and property book for William J. Taylor of Belleville. Includes account for Mr. William Baker for clothing, tea, cheese, etc., 1851-1853; assessed values of properties on Ann, William, George, Dundas (north side), Hotel Streets plus some sales and trades of lots.

Six digital mages taken in Belleville during the 2024 solar eclipse and a pair of Royal Astronomical Society of Canada solar eclipse viewing glasses.

The photographs include members of the Smith family. Some were taken in Napanee, Belleville, Brighton and Deseronto, Ontario, others in Watertown and Carthage, New York and Plainwell, Michigan.

Many of the photographs had become detached from the album and their captions. The names mentioned on the pages of the album (not all of them with associated photographs) are:

Irve Smith
E. M. F. Thibault
Samuel Smith
Jim Rattery
Robert Smith
Chas.
Annie Belton
Miss Roblin, Brighton, Ontario
Henry Ford, Watertown, New York
Bill Charnside, Watertown, New York
Fred Smith
Carol Jane 1946
Debo
Eliza & Frank Fulligar & Laura, Plainwell, Michigan
Dick Greene
Libbie & Henry Hawley & Bernice
Alice Campbell
Mrs Harrick
Joe Gonkins, Watertown, New York
Chas. Smith
John See & family
Bill Davison, Charlotte & Hugh
John Breeze
Sam
Neal Maloney
Irvine Smith
Fred Smith

Information from Eric and Linda Wilde shows that many of these individuals are descendants of Samuel See (1808-1854) and his sister Ann (1803-1871), who married Benjamin Smith (1808-1895). They were born in England and settled in Lennox and Addington County, Ontario.

Reproductions of petition letters from 1816, regarding lots. Sourced from Library and Archives Canada (1960).

Scanned photographs of Nealon family members (Denis, Jane, Margaret and Rose) of Marysville, Ontario, with four printed images of Denis Nealon and two pages of information about his father, Michael Nealon.

File contains City of Belleville printed tax receipts issued to Thos. Rutherford for various years, 1879-1891. Also present is a printed membership card for David Rutherford in the Mechanics Institute and Library, Belleville, 1878.

File contains photocopied manuscript lists of officers and soldiers of "A" and "H" Companies of the Midland Battalion of Infantry who served in the Northwest Rebellion in 1885. Individuals are listed by name, age, marital status, and place of origin in Hastings County. Originally part of the W. C. Mikel collection.

Reproductions of two aerial views of Deseronto, Ontario, from originals at Library and Archives Canada. The photographs were taken in the winter of 1918.
1) is a reproduction of LAC copy negative PA-022792 which shows the west end of Deseronto, looking east toward Ungers Island (described here: http://collectionscanada.gc.ca/ourl/res.php?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&url_tim=2020-01-14T20%3A44%3A38Z&url_ctx_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Actx&rft_dat=3310002&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fcollectionscanada.gc.ca%3Apam&lang=eng)
2) is a reproduction of LAC copy negative PA-0213876 which shows the area between Green and St. George Streets, looking north from the mill pond in Deseronto (described here: http://collectionscanada.gc.ca/ourl/res.php?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&url_tim=2020-01-14T20%3A50%3A18Z&url_ctx_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Actx&rft_dat=3600315&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fcollectionscanada.gc.ca%3Apam&lang=eng)

Materials relating to the Hastings County Historical Society's fundraising campaign to build an archives facility in Belleville, Ontario. Includes an 'Unlock the Archives!' flyer, press release, and introductory words by Peter C. Newman

Lantern slides depicting chickens, turkeys and ducks. These slides were produced by the Province of Ontario Picture Bureau, probably in the 1920s, for use in Ontario schools.

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/ )

Postcards:

1. St. George Street, Deseronto, looking south from Edmon St.
2. Upper Mill Street, Deseronto

Postcards of Belleville floods (mainly 1936), mostly duplicates of others in the collection.