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The item is a postcard showing the College Street United Church, originally a Methodist church, in Richmond from around the 1930s.

The item is a postcard showing the post office in Richmond around the 1930s.

Item is a photograph of the founding of the town of Asbestos, taken as a group picture of the community.

Item is a photograph of a group of guests and the Prime Minister of Canada, Sir Wilfrid Laurier, at a reception in Bromptonville.

Item is a photograph taken on March 20, 1948, of floodwater destroying a house, a lot of debris is visible in the water.

Item is a photograph taken on March 20, 1948, of floodwater passing by a house located in Bromptonville.

The file consists of a court notice for the declaration of bankruptcy by James Arthur Barrie, a trader in Richmond, 1911. F. G. Gale was appointed as provisional guardian of the property.

The item is an issue of the newspaper The Richmond Times-Guardian, Vol. 62, No. 50, dated 8 September 1916.

The item is a copy of a photograph of the Grand Trunk Railway station in Danville, Quebec, with the Queen's Hotel visible in the background.

Item is a reproduction of a postcard depicting what is likely a militia unit at Richmond around 1916. The unit was probably made up of people who were too young or otherwise unfit to serve in the regular forces. The inscription on the verso lists the following names: featuring Rollie Elliot, Chet Kearry, Riggins, Arthur Pope, Elmer Cleveland, Stuart Morrill, ? Blake, Elmer Stockwell, Stuart Only, Eddie Smith, Dan Tounes, Harry Pugh, Stuart Messenger, Henry Smith, Ivan Adams, Leslie Porter, Stuart Hamilton, Arthur Messenger, Russ McKee, Duncan McCallum, Brooks Hamilton, Henry Carson, Bertie Barlow, Herbie Robinson, Ralph MacBain, Serg. ?. The postcard was copied in 2019.

The item is a photograph of Silas Baker on a hay cutter pulled by a team of horses at the Edwin G. Baker farm on Haslett Road at Danville, likely taken in 1914 or 1915.

Item is a photograph of a sledge pulled by a team of horses, likely including members of the Baker family at the Edwin G. Baker farm on Haslett Road at Danville, on their way to manually spread manure in winter, taken in 1914 or 1915.

Photograph of the Chateau Windsor in Windsor under construction in 1926. A sign for P.B. Lemire, Entrepreneur Général [general contractor], is visible. Included are numerous unidentified workmen and onlookers.

Item is a copy of a portrait photograph of Bishop Paul-Stanislas Larocque (R.C.) taken in 1898.

Arial photo of the Johns-Manville mine in Asbestos.

Windsor Mill employee

Item is a photograph of the March 20th, 1948 inondation in Brompton.

Item is the cover of the Johns-Manville Pictorial News from October 1950, an issue that profiled the company in Asbestos, Quebec.

This graphical element is from the October 1950 edition of the Johns-Manville News Pictorial, which contained an article about Asbestos, Quebec, where Johns-Manville operated the asbestos mine.

Item is a photograph showing miners at the Jeffrey Mines in Asbestos around 1905.

The caption reads: This is how stripping was done about 1905 and until 1914. Horses hauled dumpcarts which were loaded by hand, to the dump. Sometimes the drivers, mostly young boys employed by the contractor, would back the cart too close to the edge of the dump and when the latch was released and the load did not slide out easily, everything went, load of earth, dumpcart, and the poor old horse. In most cases that was the end of the horse. The harness was stripped off and the horse shot and buried by suceeding loads of earth. Incidentally the "Dirt Dump" was along side of the Danville road just a short distance below the "Square"

In this picture it is possible to see three separate pits. The small cabins on the edge of the pit were for the signal boys. The hoist operator could not see into the pit or even see the platform where the derrick boxes were dumped into the ore cars. so boys were placed where they could be seen by the hoist operator and the men in the pit. They used paddles about the size of a Ping-pong paddle or bat. These were brightly painted, mostly white with a ex red centre like a large target, bull's eye. With these they transmitted signals from the pit crew to the hoistman. There were two boxes to a hoist. While one was being hoisted and emptied the pit gang were loading the second. When they had loaded and hoisted 100 boxes their day was finished. Starting at 6,30 A.M. to 12.00 noon, one hour for lunch, restart 1.00.P.M. until the 100 box was dumped which was anywhere from 1.30 to 3.00 P.M. These same boxes were used to lower and raise the men into and cut of the pit."