The item is a photograph featuring a bridge over 16 Mile Coulee, located on the Crowsnest Pass rail line in Alberta, in 1897 acquired by Mrs. W.J. Clarke.

The collection consists of mining agreements between coal mining unions and coal mines in Alberta dating from 1915 to 1961. Coal mines represented in the collection include the Canadian Collieries Limited, Cadomin Coal Co. Ltd., Canmore Coal Company Limited, Mine Workers Central Union of Estevan and District, Crow's Nest Pass Coal Company, Bighorn and Saunders Creek Collieries, Drumheller and Wayne District Coal Companies, Hillcrest Collieries Ltd., Hinton Collieries Limited, International Coal and Coke Company Limited, McGillivary Creek and Coal Company Limited, Lethbridge Collieries Limited, Luscar Collieries Limited, and McLeod River Hard Coal Co. Limited.

The collection consists of photos depicting mountainous scenes around the Frank Slide and Crowsnest Pass area, including images of the Frank Slide.

The fonds consists of two photograph albums containing 131 photographs from across Alberta including Peace River, Grande Prairie, Brulé, Red Willow Valley, Pouce Coupe, Spirit River, Jasper National Park, Crowsnest Pass; images include surveyors, camps, horses, views of various towns, buildings, creeks and rivers, Alberta-British Columbia boundary markers, mountains, water falls, riverboats, and the Provincial Mental Hospital at Ponoka and its nurses.

The fonds consists of images, originally dating 1957, from the Crowsnest Pass area and east of the area, of CPR track work and construction. The fonds also include 1957 newspaper clippings relating to Gerald S. Bradshaw, as well as his obituary

The fonds documents the operation of the preceding bodies of Livingstone Range School Division No. 68. The fonds consists of the records of Parkland Consolidated School District No. 51 and Litchfield School Division No. 3496 including daily registers, minutes, correspondence, and building plans dating from 1916 to 1963.

The fonds consists of a scrapbook compiled by Mary Rundle during her service as Private Secretary to Sir Anderson Montague-Barlow for the Royal Commission on the Coal Industry in Alberta dating from 1935.

The scrapbook contains diary entries, postcards, and photographs of Alberta including photographs of the Tofield Coal Mine, Rabbit Hill, MacDonald Hotel in Edmonton, Red Deer Ferry, Henderson’s Mine, Drumheller, Lethbridge, Blairmore, Crow’s Nest Mountain and Lake, Old Man River, Forest Reserve near Thunder Creek, Banff, Kicking Horse Pass, Mount Rundle and Vermilion Lake, Kicking Horse Canyon, Moraine Lake, Lake Louise, Caste Mountain (Saskatchewan), Luscar, Cadomin, Crazeau, Mountain Park, Leyard Junction, Luscar, Edson, Coalspar, the Alberta Legislature Building, Edmonton, as well as photographs of Sir Montague-Barlow, Lady Montague-Barlow, and coal miners in Alberta.

The fonds consists of 21 photographs of the Crowsnest Pass area in Alberta.

The fonds consists of images, dating 1949 to 1962, featuring various locations in Alberta including Banff, Beaver Lodge, Brazeau, Calgary, Caroline, Champion, Crowsnest Pass, Cypress Hills, Dorothy, Drumheller, Duvernay, East Coulee, Edmonton, Fort Saskatchewan, Frank, Frog Lake, Grisham, High Prairie, High River, Kananaskis, Lethbridge, Lloydminster, Longiven, Manning, Manville, Manyberries, Medicine Hat, Midland, Nordegg, Orion, the Red Deer River, Ricinus, Rocky Mountain House, Rosebud, Rosedale, Sundre, Vulcan, Wabamun, Whiskey Gap, and the Yellowhead Pass. The photographs include street scenes, schools, fire halls, churches and mosques, stores, restaurants, diners and bakeries, beer parlours, post offices, greenhouses, telephone lines, workers and operators, grain elevators, ferries, swimming pools, airports, Jaycopters, airplanes and cargo, mills and mines (flour, steel, coal, nickel), plants, camps, pipeline construction, saddleries, apiaries, bridges, dams, roads, signs, hoodoos, mountains, ice fields, cattle, horses and sheep, stampedes and parades, cattle branding and dehorning, lariat making, artists and sculptors, and laundry and ironing.

The fonds also includes images of rancher and juniper root carver Wilf Hodgson (Wilfred Garstang-Hodgson), of Dorothy, Alberta.

The fonds consists of material related to the Building Histories exhibition. The photographs are documentary in nature and depict dilapidated mining sites around Crowsnest Pass. The fonds includes the original negatives, slides of the images, small prints, and the large, framed prints that were used in the exhibit.

The fonds also includes textual material that provides context to the photos. This material includes exhibit programs, artist statements and biographies, correspondence with mining companies, art galleries, and funding agencies, and educational material for school projects related to the exhibit.

The fonds consists of a photograph of a lumber camp in Crowsnest Pass, taken by Thomas Gushul in ca. 1922.

The collection consists of photographs depicting the Frank Slide and other locations in the Crowsnest Pass area of Alberta, including Blairmore and Coleman, though the Frank Slide is the primary subject of the photos. The photos were most likely taken between 1906, when a preliminary road was built through the Slide, and 1922, when a more permanent road was built through the site. The photos depict the Frank Slide in the immediate years after the catastrophe with particular emphasis on the gravel road through the area.

Fonds consists of lantern slides and lecture notes about the Frank and Hillcrest mine disasters and of Paul Kane prints, as well as newspaper clippings and a copy of a taped interview with C.B. Aikens regarding the Crowsnest Pass.