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Forty photocopied letters written from Europe by Garnet Dobbs during the First World War to his sister, Millie Dobbs of Toronto, and his brother, Walter Dobbs of Winnipeg.

Exercise books from Lamon Baker Dupuis' time at the Ontario Commercial College in Belleville, Ontario.

Negatives of photographs taken by people working for the Intelligencer newspaper.
Negatives exist for the following years (not all years are complete) and are generally arranged chronologically within each year, with the exception of 1949-1957.

• 1949-1957 (arranged alphabetically by subject)
• 1962
• 1963
• 1964
• 1965
• 1968
• 1969
• 1970
• 1971
• 1973
• 1974
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• 1976
• 1977
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Two negative-holders with annotations by Harold McMurrich Rathbun for negatives he took between 1907 and 1914, with loose negatives from 1920-1940. Most of the photographs were taken in and around Deseronto, Ontario, but they also include photographs taken on a journey by rail to Alberta in 1907.

A group of glass negatives associated with Herbert 'Burt' Rathbun (1861-1897) and his family.

Scans of photographs taken by Lewis Barker, a rigger at Camp Rathbun, a First World War pilot training camp to the north of Deseronto, Ontario.

Scanned images of two photograph albums compiled by Harry McBride while he was serving as a rigger in the Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force at Camp Mohawk near Deseronto, Ontario, and in Texas. Includes a copy of his discharge papers.

Digital images of the roof of the attic space in the Anglican Rectory building in Deseronto, Ontario, taken by Edgar Tumak.

Photographs found in Deseronto Town Hall, dating from the 1970s to 2011, depicting a variety of Town events. They include a set of aerial photographs from the 1980s (some duplicates), photographs of Centennial and Rathbun Memorial Park, the opening of the Deseronto Public Library in its 358 Main Street location in 2001, the 2010 Olympic Flame run in Deseronto, an Easter Parade from the early 2000s, a Santa Parade, the OPP handover (2007?), interior of the Home Hardware store in the Baker Block, 1989 100th Anniversary celebrations, 2002 New Year’s Levee, the O’Connor House before demolition.

Some were taken by Tom Usher (donated by Irene Usher), others are of unknown provenance: probably taken by Town staff.

Four ribbons from ‘Deseronto’s 100th Anniversary Homecoming 1989’, a red one for first prize, a dark blue for second prize, a white for third prize and a pale blue for ‘I particpated’. Duplicate ribbons were discarded.

Album pages with photographs of Royal Flying Corps/Royal Air Force activities in Deseronto, Ontario, and some snapshots of local buildings and Cole family members.

Photographs taken inside the Post Office building in Deseronto, Ontario, in May 2011 by Dana Valentyne.

Digital copies of photographs taken by Sergeant Christopher Paulus Devos, a flight instructor for 84 Canadian Training Squadron of the Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force at Camp Mohawk near Deseronto, Ontario.

Digital photographs of the Cenotaph ceremonies held in Deseronto on 11 November 2007 and 2008.

This series contains files on properties within the city of Belleville, Ontario, arranged alphabetically by street. The files generally contain information from the Canadian Inventory of Historic Buildings. They sometimes have photographs of the property and a note on changes of ownership.

Files contain:

1. 3 unidentified tintype studio portraits, c.1860
2. Interior view of St. Charles Borromeo Roman Catholic church, Read, Ontario, c.1890
3. 19 studio portraits
4. c. 100 family snapshots (loose and in small albums), c.1920-1993
5. drawings of:
   1. Ann McVicker Doyle of Marysville (1848-1927)
   2. Patrick and Kate Hunt of Lot 22, Concession 7, Tyendinaga Township, parents of Carl and Marie (who later married Steven Brennan). Their farm was sold in 1981 to Mr and Mrs Ted Majoor of Pickering, Ontario.

1) Canada Gazette proclamation regarding a day of mourning for President William McKinley on 19 September 1901 dated 18 September 1901
2) Canada Gazette on the opening of Parliament, 12 March 1903
3) 'Can you answer these-" questions encouraging young men to enlist, published by the Ontario Presses in Belleville, Ontario, c.1916
4) King Baldwin Preceptory Knights Templar No. 6, Belleville, Ontario pamphlet with list of officers, 1936 and list of Preceptors from 1861 to 1936
5) 'Report on the Military Institutions of Canada by General Sir Ian Hamilton, G.C.B., D.S.O., Inspector General of the Oversea Forces', 1913
6) 'Empire Day in Ontario, Friday May 23rd 1913' by the Ontario Department of Education
7) 'Speeches Delivered in Artillery Park, Kingston, on July 21st, 1915, by W. B. Northrup, Esq., M.P., and Michael Clark, M.D., M.P., at the opening meeting of the local branch of the Speakers' Patriotic league', 1915
8) 'How Germany seeks to justify her atrocities' by Joseph Bédier, 1915
9) 'How Austria-Hungary waged war in Serbia' by R. A. Reiss, 1915
10) 'In the Land of War, a Padre with the Bagpipes' by Luchlan MacLean Watt, 1915
11) 'Canada at War, speeches delivered by Rt. Hon. Sir Robert Laird Borden', July to December 1915
12) 'Armenian Atrocities, the Murder of a Nation' by Arnold J. Toynbee, 1915
13) 'British Staying Power, Lord Revelstoke's Views, Anglo-American Sympathies, Interview given to the United Press of America' 1916
14) 'A Signal of Distress from the Belgian Bishops to Public Opinion. The Story of the Belgian Deportations', 1916
15) 'The Mails as a German War Weapon, Memorandum on the censorship of mails carried by neutral ships', 1916
16) 'Memorandum of the Belgian Government on the deportation and forced labour of the Belgian civil population ordered by the German Government', [1917]
17) 'German Truth and a Matter of Fact', by J. M. Robertson, M.P., 1917
18) 'Russia and her Allies, extract from the Verbatim Report of the Imperial Duma, IVth Session, 16th Sitting', 1917
19) 'The Murderous Tyranny of the Turks', by Arnold J. Toynbee, 1917
20) 'The Germans and the Small Nations, an interview with Lord French', 1917
21) 'The New German Empire, a study of German war aims from German sources', 1917
22) 'Canada at War, speech delivered by Rt. Hon. Sir Robert Laird Borden', 18 May 1917
23) 'The True and the False Pacifism' by Count Goblet D'Alviella, 1917
24) 'The Character of the British Empire' by Ramsay Muir, 1917
25) 'Germany, Turkey and Armenia, a selection of documentary evidence relating to the Armenian Atrocities from German and other sources', 1917
26) 'The Medico-Legal Journal' Vol. 34, Issue 3, June 1917
27) 'To Make Men Traitors, Germany's attempts to seduce her Prisoners-of-War', 1918
28) 'Linguistic Oppression in the German Empire' by Ernest Baker, 1918
29) 'The Battles of the Ridges Arras-Messines March-June 1917' by Frank Fox, R.F.A., 1918

Slides of Belleville buildings, taken by Elaine Preston.

Records relating to the Stirling Festival Theatre:

• Five blueprint plans of Stirling Theatre by J. F. Houston, traced by Charles A. Mott of Belleville, 9 July 1927
• Stirling Theatre ledger, 1927-1948
• Three plans showing kitchen facilities and Council Chambers at Stirling Community Centre, with annotated copies of each, 1970
• File of minutes of Stirling Theatre Board of Management, 1991-1998
• File relating to the Stirling Festival Theatre restoration fund, 1997-1999