2003.409a Postcard depicting a one-legged man at the door of a woman's house. The text reads: "KIND LADY, I HAD THE MISFORTIN TER LOOSE ME LEG-" "WELL IT'S NO USE LOOKIN' FOR IT HERE, I AIN'T GOT IT!" Published by Bamforth & Co., publishers of Holmfirth, England and New York, US. It was mailed on February 15th 1911 from Deseronto, Ontario, from 'Chas' to Mrs J. M. Hall of Deseronto. The reverse of the card can be seen at 2003.409b. Part of the Hall family records.

H is for humour. This postcard was mailed in Deseronto in 1911 (apparently by a one-legged man!). An example of the #humour of the time. #ArchivesAtoZ

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HCM03313 The Hastings County court house on Pinnacle Street in Belleville, Ontario.

G is for government. The Hastings County court house building, seat of the #government of the County from 1839 to 1961. It was demolished in 1971. #ArchivesAtoZ www.flickr.com/photos/cabhc...

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F is for film. We have a small selection of archive #films available on YouTube (including a video of the Grand Opening of our current location, 10 years ago today!). #ArchivesAtoZ

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Online Exhibits | Community Archives of Belleville and Hastings County

E is for Exhibits. A selection of online exhibits is available from our #exhibit webpage at www.cabhc.ca/publications... #ArchivesAtoZ

A sculpture with twisted metal forms. A woman readies to putt, while a man kneels and lines up the shot.

#ArchivesAtoZ: F is for fairways, through feet of a sculpture, a Peel Museum fundraiser event for United Way in 1990.

A chick drives a car, wearing a driving cap. Two chicks in the back wear caps like soldiers. The front of the car engine has pussy willow branches. Words Easter Greetings, Lewis-Hepton family fonds.

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E is for Easter

Why don’t archivists digitize everything? Today on the blog we’re tackling one of our most frequently asked questions: “Why don’t you digitize everything?” and its related runner-up, “When will you be putting all your records o…

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D is for digitization: it's more complicated than you'd think, meaning we need to be selective and strategic:
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Man photographing pages of a pile of old newspapers at a computer workstation.

#Digitization has been a priority in recent years. Here's our summer Archives Assistant from 2022, Zac Miller, busy photographing pages from The Daily Intelligencer. #ArchivesAtoZ

Newspaper article about the performance of "The Golden Age".

#CallingCard of Belleville musician, Joseph Nevin Doyle (1869-1916), whose comic opera "The Golden Age" was performed at the Royal Alexandra Theatre in Toronto in 1915. #ArchivesAtoZ

HC06055 A photograph showing a woman holding tower of boxes which appear to be falling onto a nearby man (possibly Reg McCurdy). Photograph by Ian Robertson.

A pile of #boxes appears to be falling in this photograph taken by Ian Robertson for the Intelligencer newspaper in around 1970. #ArchivesAtoZ
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Album cover largely in red, with a black a white photo of a woman, Doreen Boss. To her side, the number 100 looks like a rose.

A is for album: After winning a Chinguacousy songwriting contest in 1972, Doreen Boss was chosen to create a song for Brampton’s centennial in 1973. Listen: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwQl...
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"Doing the 'Haka'": a group of Maori children in March 1909, one of many international photographs in an #album recording a tour of the world by members of the Kilties Band. #ArchivesAtoZ

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