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Files of correspondence, post cards and Christmas cards addressed to female members of the Hall family.

The photographs are arranged by subject matter and cover activities in and around the town of Deseronto, Ontario. The majority date from the late nineteenth century and many depict the lumber-related industries of the Rathbun Company in Deseronto. There are also photographs of school groups, churches, railways, First World War airfields and portraits of Deseronto citizens.

Photographs of men and aircraft at Camp Mohawk and Camp Rathbun, Deseronto, Ontario. Include several of crashes and three of Lieutenant Colin Goss Coleridge's funeral on July 26th, 1918. Men (air cadets) identified in the photographs are Paul Townsley and J. Smith. The photograph of J. Smith was taken at Camp Rathbun but sent from Fort Worth, Texas, in January 1918.

Fonds comprises photographs, correspondence and printed materials relating to the activities of members of the Hall family of Deseronto, particularly Flossie Hall (later Flossie Chalmers).

Portraits and snapshots of the Hall family, their friends and relations. Around half the photographs have no identifying information on them. Individuals named in the other photographs include: Albert and Ellen Hall; Elinor Tunnecliffe (later Mrs William Schnell); Marion Duffield; Wilhelmina (Billy) Waldron; Betty MacLachlan; Freddie Eggleton; Katherine Mills; Jean Scott; Fern Snider; Gordon Hall; Evelyn Hall, Emma Hall; Flossie Hall; Phyllis Davis; Margaret Duffield.

Album of photographs compiled by a member of the Hobbs family. Teddie Hobbs appears in one of the photographs and there is also a photograph of the grave of J. E. Hobbs. The majority of photographs are of the First World War Royal Flying Corps training camps in North America: Camps Borden and Mohawk in Ontario and Camp Taliaferro in Texas.

Collection comprises photographs of the two First World War Royal Flying Corps training camps at Deseronto, Ontario and notes for an unpublished book, Wings Over Deseronto, on the history of the camps. Camp Mohawk and Camp Rathbun were in operation between May 1917 and November 1918, training men to be pilots for the Western Front. The photographs in this collection are originals and reproductions depicting the aircraft, staff and cadets of the Royal Flying Corps, principally in the Deseronto camps, but also at Camps Borden and Leaside (Ontario) and Camp Taliaferro, in Fort Worth, Texas.

File of letters, mainly from Dell Grafton, who was a school friend of Evelyn Hall’s from Havergal College, Toronto. The letters were written between 1900 and 1905 and describe Dell Grafton’s social life, clothes, parties and boyfriends and were written from Dundas, Ontario (her home town), Vancouver, British Columbia, and from various hotels in Maine, where she spent her summers with her family. Adeline’s father was James Grafton, a dry goods merchant in Dundas. Her mother had died and her relationship with her stepmother was not good. The last letter from Adeline was written on board the RMS Caronia in October 1905, when she was on her way to school in England.

The other letter was from Anna Corbett of Brampton.

File contains letters and postcards written to female members of the Hall family. Several are from men on active service in the First World War: Private W. J. Davis of 599 Company, Dar es Salaam (of 117 Follis Avenue, Toronto); Private J.H. Whaley, Royal Canadian Dragoons; Private Howard Witheridge, 208 Irish Canadians, Canadian Special Hospital; J Smith of the Imperial Royal Flying Corps in Camp Taliaferro, Texas; One is from Private Jim Anderson who was serving in the Seaforth Highlanders in the Second World War.

Photographs of logging operations, lumber yards and working men.