File contains a photocopy of Victoria Magazine, Volume 1, no.2, edited by Susanna and John Wedderburn Dunbar Moodie. Includes several essays and poems by the Moodies and various authors.
File contains a manuscript resolution of the Hastings County Council to secure compensation from the provincial Committee of the Volunteers' Relief Fund for volunteer militia members in the Fenian Raids of 1866. Includes correspondence from J P Peirce to the Warden of the County of Hastings, dated January 22-April 1868 concerning the design of and request of donations for a monument to be erected in Queen's Park commemorating volunteers who died in the Fenian Raids at Ridgeway, [Ontario]. Also present is a printed appeal for donations together with a proposed drawing of a statue to be erected in honour of the veterans of the Fenian Raids.
File contains a newspaper article from July, 1969 concerning an opera based on the life of Louis Riel and the events of the Red River and Northwest Rebellions.
File contains a map printed on linen of South Africa and an accompanying poem by Rudyard Kipling entitled The Absent Minded Beggar which had been set to music by Arthur Sullivan.
File contains a printed programme of “Women's Parliament of Prophecy, A.D. 2901,” an all-female performance of a mock parliament in two acts, which took place at the Belleville Opera House in May, 1901.
File contains three original printed programs of the annual concerts of the Belleville Philharmonic Society, 1903 to 1905. Also present are printed sheets of music, and a printed primary examination of the Toronto Conservatory of Music.
File contains a photocopied printed chapter entitled “A brief history of jazz,” from The Encyclopedia of Jazz, which outlines the history of the genre from ca. 1850 to 1955.
File contains a newspaper article concerning the election of officers in 1960 for the Belleville Branch of National Ballet of Canada. Includes a program for a National Ballet of Canada performance at Centennial Secondary School, Belleville on November 4 and 5th, 1968. Also present is a poster for a performance of a One Act Festival by the Eastern Ontario Drama League, November 14-16, 1968 at Centennial Secondary School, Bellevile.
File contains an Ontario Intelligencer article dated 20 March 1961 concerning Konrad Piwowarski, an artist and former Polish intelligence agent residing in Belleville, whose paintings were commissioned by a local church.
File contains a printed magazine article entitled “Money Museum in Michigan,” by James Keith, Lawyer Title News, April 1962 concerning the Money Museum established in 1960 by the National Bank of Detroit.
File contains newspaper clippings regarding the history of the Barnum House Museum, near Grafton, Ontario. Also present is a printed information card regarding the history of Barnum House and its preservation as a museum.
File contains several typescript and manuscript poems including “Chapleau Boys” which recounts shanty life in Renfrew County. Also present is a newspaper reprint of a poem entitled “The Maple and the Beaver,” by Charles Andrew Tupper which appeared in the Cobourg Sentinal-Star, 12 August 1964.
File contains two newspaper articles from The Intelligencer, 8 June 1966 announcing the Hastings Historical Society's acquisition and exhibition of Dr. A Paul's 350-piece collection of lighting devices at the Hastings County Museum.
File contains a newspaper article concerning the release of the book, 'The Mosaic of Belleville', by Nick and Helma Mika on May 26, 1966. Also contains a typescript price list which appear to be related to reproductions of drawings and photographs.
File contains a mimeographed typescript proposal entitled “Belleville Project for the Canadian Centennial : a proposal submitted by certain interested citizens.” The proposal contains a brief history of Faulkner House [Glanmore], architectural drawings and a proposed budget for restoration and subsequent operations.
File contains a newspaper article from The Intelligencer, 28 June 1968, concerning the filming of 'The End' a short production concerning World War II, which was shot in Campbellford, Ontario.
File contains an article from The Intelligencer, 25 September 1968 profiling Miss Joy Nicholls, owner of the Quinte Bookshop, Bridge Street East, Belleville, which she had owned and operated for 35 years.
File contains newspaper clippings regarding the opening of the Ameliasburgh Museum in Prince Edward County in 1968, and the relocation of a log cabin to the museum site in April, 1969.