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The scrapbooks detail activities in the Belleville, Hastings County area from 1920 to 1943. The scrapbooks contain assorted newspaper clippings, extracts from Chamber of Commerce brochures, etc. relating to political, economic, and other happenings.

Twelve printed recipe cards for muffins, produced by the Old Cheese Factory muffin shop at 137 Main Street, Foxboro, Ontario. "Famous for muffins since 1980"

1. Handwritten notes of daily business activities by William Nisbet Ponton
2. Deed from Richard and Hannah Eliza Bamber to W. H. Maines of the northwest quarter of lot 6 in the ninth concession of Sidney Township, 21 February 1884
3. Mortgage of the same property by Allan Edward and Alice Maud Maines to William Maines, 7 April 1897

Printed brochures, many of them promoting Belleville and its industries.

Books with lists of customers and amounts paid for ice supplied by Maurice Callaghan.

Reproduction photographs showing:

1. Front Street, Belleville, Ontario, looking north from south of City Hall, with streetcar, 1910
2. Four photographs of Livesey's Meat Market, with members of the Livesey family
3. Interior of a grocery store on Front Street
   With a page of notes by Wendy Stevens on the history of the photographs. The store was at the corner of Bridge and Everett Streets in Belleville.

This fonds is composed of folders of records containing documents relating to the Ontario Business College:

• correspondence including letters between: F.C.A. Johnson and E.H. Best; a Miss Nightingale and Michael J. Finnegan; and Miss Nightingale and Fred Jarrett
• publications containing programs, pamphlets, and catalogues
• items donated by Principal I. L. Moore such as a catalogue, an advertisement, a cheque to the school from the Farthey family from Johannesburg, South Africa from the Bank of Africa, and a scholarship granted to Adam Johnson
• the college's rules and regulations, a legal document discussing the trial over the name of the Belleville Business College between that school and the Ontario Business College, and one invoice book from the Business Department
• ephemera file containing three student records from Geoff Reeves, Maud Reeves, and Howard Frost respectively, as well as a coupon and a copy of the school song,

The fonds consists of Dr. Van Arsdale Blakslee's personal and medical business receipts between the years of 1915 and 1940. There are receipts for medical supplies, tax receipts, and personal receipts such as household bills and car repairs. Many of the medical supply invoices are for products shipped by mail from Toronto or Montreal. Some of these companies in Toronto include: J.F Hartz Co. Limited, Ingram Bell, Ethical Drug Products Limited, and from Montreal Frank W. Horner Limited, Manufacturing Chemists. The majority of the receipts are from local businesses in Belleville and surrounding areas such as: F.W Jeffery Harware Merchant, Midland, Ontario, F.S Anderson Co. Genuine Scranton Coal, W.H Lattimer Druggist Belleville, Sprague the Cleaner, Greenleaf's Garage Machine Shop Foundry Electrical Contractors, R. Oliphant Son Butchers, McLaughlin Motor Car Company, Quinte Bicycle Store, The Belleville Pharmacy, E.D Finkle Electrical Contractor, J.S McKeown The Prescription Druggist, Porter, Butler and Payne Barristers, Solicitors Notaries Public etc. The Belleville Vulcanizing Co. J.T Warren Chevrolet Garage, Ed. F. Dickens Son Bakers and Confectioners, Smith Hardware, Chas J. Symons Gents Furnishings, Hats Caps, A.B Liddle Tailoring, Cleaning, Pressing, Repairing and many more. There are also household bills from the Belleville Gas Department, Belleville Water Works Department, Bell Telephone, Hydro Electric Power Commission and tax receipts from various years.

This fonds contains one folder of real estate related material, a volume containing a ledger with the Association's rules and regulations, and two volumes of minute books.

Fonds consist of six ledger books and three folders of documents. The folders contain financial records, administrative records, and correspondence.

The Belleville Chamber of Commerce fonds is composed of:

• one file of correspondence including a press release, a ballot for the election for the 1968 election
• one file containing two newsletters from 1956 and the last page of another newsletter from 1958.
• one file of industrial brochures and promotional material containing three brochures circa 1953.
• one file has annual reports from 1922, 1954, 1955, and 1956 in it, and a better service survey from 1953.
• one file contains three guides about Belleville from 1950, three information guides for visitors to Belleville from 1961.
• one file of directories and maps from 1949 to 1963.
• two files containing "The Highlands of Hastings" travel brochures from 1940 to 1967, and a Quinte Isle tourist directory.
• one file containing files from the "Jaycees," also known as the Belleville Junior Chamber of Commerce.
• one file of material from the Belleville Board of Trade for Hastings County period in the organizations history.
• one file containing ephemera pieces including a sign indicating membership and a menu.
• one file contains various newspaper clippings.