File contains an Ontario Intelligencer article dated 14 June 1924 concerning the establishment and early history of the Weekly Intelligencer [later Ontario Intelligencer]. This issue of the newspaper is available online at https://archive.org/details/intelligencer-june-1924/page/n85/mode/2up . Also present is a typescript genealogy of the family of George Benjamin who started the newspaper in 1834. The genealogy was prepared by Ruby Milburn, granddaughter of George and Isabella Benjamin.
File contains a newspaper clipping from the Ontario Intelligencer, 14 April 1959 concerning the election of officers of the Plainfield Women's Institute. Also includes an obituary of Harry McCreary, Plainfield, telephone pioneer and former owner-operator of the McCreary Telephone Company who created early rural telephone lines in Thurlow and Sidney Townships. Also present is a duplicate copy of a printed booklet entitled “Progress Report : Ontario Homes for Mentally Retarded Infants, Plainfield, May 1951-December 1965. “
File contains a photocopied manuscript set of volumes 1 and 2 of The Seaview Gazette, a newsletter produced by members of the 'Bancroft Clan' in Belleville, Ontario, for the period June 1892 to April 1893. Also included are photocopied printed monthly issues of the publication August 1893 to June 1894. The issues largely focus on social news, visits and community events. Also present is a letter of 28 September 1966 from Wlliam F.E. Morley, Curator, Special Collections Queen's University, Kingston to Gerald Boyce accompanying the transmission of the copies.
File contains a manuscript petition of James Thompson Belleville, owner of The Independent newspaper to the County Council of Hastings, soliciting business from the Council. Also contains three manuscript printing and advertising requisitions from the Corporation of the County of Hastings, 1860-1865.
File contains a centennial issue of The Paris Star, 28 June 1856. Also present is a reproduction issue of The Paris Star and Great Western Advocate, 11 February 1852.
File contains full issues of The Toronto World, 5 May 1896, August 30, September 4 & 7, 1899 and 15 June 1904, together with a political cartoon of 8 February 1909 concerning conservation of natural resources.
File contains a photocopied edition of The Barry's Bay Review, 5 July 1962, which is largely dedicated to the sinking of the steamer, 'Mayflower' on Kamaniskeg Lake in November, 1912.
File contains a printed songbook of popular selections issued by The Echo Newspaper. Includes several advertisements of goods and services by Belleville firms.
File contains a prospectus of the Belleville Printing and Publishing Co. concerning the publication and circulation of The Chronicle, and the offer of shares. Also contains manuscript statements of account of the Hastings Chronicle for advertising and printing costs incurred by the County Council of Hastings in 1856-1867.
File contains manuscript statements of accounts by The Chronicle newspaper for printing costs incurred by the County Council of Hastings in 1862, and the Hastings County Board of Instruction in 1865.
File contains a Intelligencer article of 4 June 1969 concerning the history of the newspaper from its founding in 1834 to its 135th anniversary in June, 1969.
File contains manuscript and completed printed invoices relating to the printing and publication services of the Intelligencer. Also present is a printed card containing the annual “Address of the Carrier Boy of the Intelligencer to his patrons," 1861, and an undated typescript circular letter to subscribers and prospective subscribers concerning a contest for an automobile.
File contains a newspaper article entitled “Journalism in Belleville,” which recounts the history of several early newspapers in the city including the establishment of the Weekly [later Ontario] Intelligencer in 1834.