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Five copies of photographs showing Louise Fitchett's house in Deseronto and Ken Melhoff as a young boy, c.1944-1946. Photocopy of an article from Our Canada magazine by Carolyn Lori about Joseph Laverture of Green Street, Deseronto, and his miniature cannons. Lavature was at one time the projectionist at Naylor's theatre in Deseronto.

Collection of materials relating to the Kellaway family of Belleville, Ontario, including:
1) File of certificates and ration books relating to Kenneth Alfred Kellaway (1917-1998)
2) File of typescript notes on the history of the Kellaway family, 2012, and a calendar from Ed Kellaway's Belleville store, 1955

Materials collected by the Kellaway family.
Textual materials:
0) Photocopy of a letter written by Patrick Tighe from Virginia City, Nevada, on 3 January 1863
1) Printed Report of the County Valuators for Hastings County Council, 1866
2) Prospectus for Belleville Business College, c.1905
3) 'The Annual Announcement, Albert College, Belleville, Ontario', prospectus, 1913
4) '140 Years of Progress' U.E.L. souvenir, 1924
5) Program for 'The Girl in Red' musical comedy at the Empire Theatre, 9-11 July 1925
6) Share certificate for the Belleville Arena in the name of M. J. Callaghan, 1930
7) File containing folk songs collected from Tyendinaga Township by Bill Sipprell and Jim Downey in 1973
8) File of materials relating to a fur harvest and management course held in Napanee in 1982
9) 'Ellie Mae's Nifty Knits' volume of knitting patterns designed by Ellen Marie Kellaway (1961-2006), c.1992

Photographs:
10) View of south Front Street near the railway bridge, 1912
11) Photograph of children in confirmation clothes, c.1930
12) St. Mike's Regis Bowling League, April 1957
13) Boys in confirmation suits at the altar of St. Michael's Roman Catholic Church in Belleville, Ontario, c.1970
14) & 15) Photographs of the stone building (former axe factory) at Station Street in Belleville, c.1980
16) People (including Theresa Kellaway) marching in a St. Patrick's Day parade on Front Street in Belleville, (published in Quinte Weekly News on 19 March 1991)
17) Group of people outside the Belleville Collegiate Institute and Vocational School Building, c.2000

Scrapbooks of newspaper clippings compiled by Joyce Keller from Belleville, Ontario newspapers on topics relating to Canada's centennial celebrations, chiefly in 1967 but with some earlier and later clippings.

The fonds contains the papers of John S. Turnbull of Belleville, Ontario. Enclosed in the first file is a description of the property of a Mr. Forrin; a notice instructing Mr. Turnbull to pay Mr. James Anderson eleven pounds, ten shillings by Mr. James Turnbull; and a description of the west side of Front Street. The second file consists of items relating to Turnbull's estate including a list of properties he owned, a list of personal effects, the last will and testament of Margaret Campbell, the first and final wills of John Turnbull, and documents pertaining to a dispute over his estate by his family after his death. The third file is composed of various real estate contracts, the fourth file consists of real estate deeds, while the fifth file is made up of real estate leases.

A plan of lot 40 on the west side of Front Street, Belleville, was also part of this collection but is kept separately.

Scrapbooks of materials relating to Masonic involvement in local unveiling ceremonies for Christ Church in Belleville, 7 August 2005; the Parrott Riverfront Trail and United Empire Loyalist monument, 10 September 2005; Belleville Public Library, 9 June 2006; Masonic time capsule, 9 June 2006. Photocopy of Moira Lodge No. 11 Secretary's Dues Book, 1886-1901.

Printed booklet on the history of John Barrett McGann, founder of the Ontario School for the Deaf.

Three items relating to James Vincent Doyle:
1) Apprenticeship agreement between Doyle and Alexander Ray of Belleville, 30 April 1899
2) Affidavit concerning the registration of a partnership by J. Vincent Doyle, 4 November 1943
3) Partnership agreement between James Vincent Doyle and Edmund O'Flynn Doyle [his son], 1 April 1948

Photographs and certificates relating to J. Ben Corke's time on Belleville City Council: as Alderman and as Mayor.

Collection comprises photographs of the two First World War Royal Flying Corps training camps at Deseronto, Ontario and notes for an unpublished book, 'Wings Over Deseronto', on the history of the camps. Camp Mohawk and Camp Rathbun were in operation between May 1917 and November 1918, training men to be pilots for the Western Front. The photographs in this collection are originals and reproductions depicting the aircraft, staff and cadets of the Royal Flying Corps, principally in the Deseronto camps, but also at Camps Borden and Leaside (Ontario) and Camp Taliaferro, in Fort Worth, Texas.

Four 1965 issues of The Post Express (Napanee and Deseronto), June 16 (2 copies), June 23, July 28 .

Issue of The Tribune, a Deseronto newspaper.

Journal containing article 'On the Trail of William Embury, Lantern Maker: A Tale of Two Countries' by Mel Zaloudek. Embury worked for the W. W. Chown company in Belleville, Ontario, in the 1890s, manufacturing tinware and lanterns.