Community Archives of Belleville and Hastings County

06/17/2026

An ad from 1897, promoting an act by Mademoiselle Orrocco and her Mystifying Wonder Globe. She was available for hire at parks, theatres and summer resorts for $100 a day.

Advertisement for a performer, Mademoiselle Orrocco of New York and Montreal. "An achievement without a parallel. M'lle Orrocco and her Mystifying Wonder Globe, as she really appears propelling herself and globe up and down a silver spiral incline. The only Lady in the world who has ever successfull...

06/03/2026

Interesting headline from June 1969. Full story online at https://archive.org/details/intelligencer-june-1969/page/n391/mode/2up

05/13/2026

Processing scrapbooks of The Trentones/A Ca****la Quinte (established 1972). Grateful for black and white photography.

04/30/2026

This month's is looking at . The men in this photograph were involved in a Grand Trunk Railway strike in the summer of 1910.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/cabhc/31240276331/

The strike was reported on in the North Hastings Review here: https://archive.org/details/north-hastings-review-july-1910/page/n16/mode/1up

Photograph taken by William Spence Clarke outside the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers Hall (southwest corner of Chatham and Pine Streets) showing members of the Order of Railway Conductors and Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen involved in the Grand Trunk Railway Strike of July 18 to August 2, 1910...

04/30/2026

Z is for Zandbergen. This is one of a series of farm-related catalogues from the collection of Lewis . https://discover.cabhc.ca/farm-related-items

04/29/2026

Can you help us rehome a stray?

This is one of three negatives found loose in a box of negatives taken in 1995-1996 by Intelligencer photographer, Jeff McIntosh. We'd love to identify the woman holding the dog in this image so that we can reunite the negatives with the envelope they came from. Do you recognize her? Or the dog?!

UPDATE: We are delighted to report that the woman and dog in our stray negative have now been identified. Great detective work, everyone! 🐶

04/29/2026

Y is for yellowing. This newspaper clipping from 1976 is a good example of how the degree of of paper will vary, depending on how it is kept. https://discover.cabhc.ca/newspaper-clipping-about-century-place

04/28/2026

X is for which is the fancy name for woodcuts. This print from a woodcut by Czech artist Bohuslav Kroupa shows the Williams gold mine at Marmora in around 1872.

"The Williams Gold Mine - The Marmora Mines - By C. Walker" Reproduction of a drawing held by Library and Archives Canada, from a woodcut by Czech artist Bohuslav Kroupa (1838-1912).

04/27/2026

W is for wedding. This photo of Naylor's Theatre in Deseronto shows a poster advertising a film of the of Princess Mary and Viscount Lascelles, which took place in February 1922.

Snapshot of Naylor's Theatre in Deseronto, Ontario, probably taken in 1923. There are advertisements on the side of the building for a showing of the wedding ceremony of Princess Mary and Viscount Lascelles (which took place in February 1922) and for the movie The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1923).....

04/25/2026

V is for - Latin for "back". Sometimes the words on the backs of photos are useful. Sometimes not, as in this example of an image of the filming team of "Carry on Sergeant" in Trenton in 1927.